Miodrag Kokotovic
24 awesome technical articles
Graduated from Faculty of Electrical Engineering, within University of Belgrade, in the field of electrical power systems. Expert in electrical part of tender preparation, design, procurement, construction and commissioning of treatment plants and pumping stations, electrical power quality and energy management.
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Mastering single line and wiring diagrams: Using circuit breaker for MV power factor correction
Within this article, a custom-made cubicle intended for supply and protection of MV reactive power compensation block will be analyzed. Technical characteristics of major electrical components, together with three line and wiring diagrams, will be shown, while some specific aspects…...
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Apr 09, 2020 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
Mastering single line and wiring diagrams: MV earth fault protection
This technical article continues the series of articles dedicated to mastering single line and wiring diagrams of medium voltage switchgear. This time, the subject is the principle, and realization of earth fault protection applied to the same example switchgear used…...
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Mar 26, 2020 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
Learn how to interpret interlocking schemes between MV cubicles (single line and wiring diagrams)
There are numerous variations of MV switchgear topology, measurement, and control logic. However, there are also some basic rules related to these aspects which may be frequently seen in practice, with the purpose of increased safety and reliability during operation…....
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Mar 12, 2020 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
When can we say that earthing arrangement is safe for people (confusions in practice)
This article will analyse some of the most important safety issues related to design and use of LV electrical installations. Besides explanation of relevant terms in this field defined by IEC standards, some misinterpretations and confusions which may be seen…...
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Feb 28, 2020 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
Design and control considerations for an example of the waste water pumping station
Wastewater pumping stations are very common application examples of three-phase induction motors. There are numerous varieties of power supply and control logic, depending on exact conditions in the place of installation, the role of the pumping station inside a sewer…...
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Feb 14, 2020 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
How does low voltage protection unit work and what’s the most important to understand
If we are talking about LV applications, the protection (or trip) unit is a functional part of a circuit breaker. In most cases, they are physically integrated into the same housing as well. To better explain the purpose of the…...
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Jan 23, 2020 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
How to avoid common mistakes during wiring and startup of power factor correction (PFC) cubicle
Power factor correction (PFC) and reactive power compensation (RPC) are often used as synonyms in practice. Although they are similar and mutually dependent terms, they donβt represent the same thing. RPC is a procedure for reducing total reactive power of…...
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Jan 16, 2020 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
Soft starter for potable water well pump (wiring diagram, troubleshooting example)
This article will analyze a real example of an electrical switchboard for a potable water well pump, containing a soft starter as one of the major components. Besides the explanation of the wiring diagram and working logic, some technical problems…...
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Dec 27, 2019 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
Where and why you should use thyristor switched reactive power compensation
Various aspects of reactive power compensation problems have already been mentioned in previous articles. However, because of consistency of this article, we will remind ourselves briefly on basic terms and principles related to this field. Reactive power is a sort…...
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Dec 12, 2019 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
Learn how to use PLC and VFD for pump control: Power and control circuits analysis
For the last several decades, every engineering task related to processing control is realized by the use of PLC (Programmable Logic Controller). If we are talking about induction motor control, which is the most common case, usually a VFD (Variable…...
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Nov 27, 2019 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
The wiring diagram and physical layout of the equipment inside the motor control centre
This article will provide a description of the most important equipment and working principle of a real case motor control centre (MCC). That is a usual name for a switchboard with the purpose of power supply and control of induction…...
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Nov 14, 2019 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
Lessons I learned during the start-up of an MV switchgear
In the world of electrical engineering, a term start-up assumes all works which are necessary to be done for putting in operation already tested switchgear, as close as possible installed in position and ambient defined by design documentation and employerβs…...
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Oct 31, 2019 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
Automatic transfer switch between three power sources (analysis of schemes)
When a switchboard can be supplied from two or more different sources, transfer between those sources can be done manually or automatically. This kind of configuration is usually designed when reliability and quality of power supply need to be provided…....
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Oct 03, 2019 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
Why we find temperature so important everywhere in electrical engineering?
The purpose of this article is to underline and illustrate the importance of temperature for various aspects of electrical engineering. This is one of the crucial engineering issues from the very beginning in design and procurement stage, later during exploitation,…...
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Sep 20, 2019 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
Field devices and signals used for LV SCADA operations
At low voltage level, SCADA applications are usually used for process control and monitoring of equipment. Furthermore, incoming circuit breakers or switch disconnectors inside large LV switchboards may also be operated remotely, by the command given from the SCADA working…...
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Sep 05, 2019 | By Miodrag Kokotovic