Energy Efficiency
Brightness, Lamp Life and Efficiency of LED Fixtures
A typical LED fixture comprises four major component parts: an LED emitter, the fixture’s heat sink, driver and dimming control, and augmenting optics. The emitter includes the die, a thermal… Read more
Jan 03, 2013 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
An Overview of Combined Cycle Power Plant
The Combined Cycle Power Plant or combined cycle gas turbine, a gas turbine generator generates electricity and waste heat is used to make steam to generate additional electricity via a… Read more
Aug 25, 2012 | By vinod ramireddy
Energy and Power
An Overview Of Smart Power Grid
The present electric grids use the technology of 1970’s. But with the advancement in various concepts of power generation, problems associated with power outages and thefts, and also due to… Read more
Aug 20, 2012 | By vinod ramireddy
Energy Efficiency
Electric Power Quality and Lighting (part 2)
Continued from first part: Electric Power Quality and Lighting (part 1) Power factor is a measure of how effectively a device converts input current and voltage into useful electric power…. Read more
May 29, 2012 | By Sufi Shah Hamid Jalali
Energy Efficiency
Electric Power Quality and Lighting (part 1)
Concerns about the effects of lighting products on power distribution systems have focused attention on power quality. Poor power quality can waste energy and the capacity of an electrical system;… Read more
May 26, 2012 | By Sufi Shah Hamid Jalali
Energy Efficiency
Potential Energy Savings In Utility Buildings Using EIB
Flexibility, utilisation value and energy saving are the three main requirements for utility buildings (administration, office and public buildings, schools, hospitals, etc.). Apart from recouping investment costs, so-called life-cycle costs… Read more
Jan 11, 2012 | By Edvard Csanyi
Electric Motor
Motors And Drives For Efficient Control – ABB
With electric motors accounting for an estimated 65 percent of industrial energy use, any increases in efficiency clearly provide the potential for major savings. The energy consumption of electric motors… Read more
Nov 23, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy and Power
Aluminium or copper busbar trunking? Myth busted!
Following years of copper being the material of choice for high power busbar trunking in the UK, yet aluminium reigning supreme in the rest of the world, Schneider Electric takes… Read more
Oct 19, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy Efficiency
Smart Ways to Save Money with Alternative Energy
Alternative energy is currently a hot button topic. Whether your desire to use alternative energy stems from concern for the environment or a desire to create a healthier home, you… Read more
Sep 28, 2011 | By mirha494
Energy and Power
How to save electrical energy at home
In our home we use lot of electrical equipment like TV, Freeze, Washing machine, Mp3 player, music system, computer laptop. But we have not adequate knowledge for how to use… Read more
Aug 23, 2011 | By jiguparmar
Energy and Power
Principles for Controlling Harmonics
Harmonic distortion is caused by nonlinear devices in the power system. A nonlinear device is one in which the current is not proportional to the applied voltage. Harmonic distortion is… Read more
Aug 05, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy Efficiency
Setting circuit breaker tripping with MS Excel spreadsheet
The protective unit of circuit breaker MUST fulfill: Instantaneous trip setting Im < Iscmin for a circuit-breaker Fusion current Ia < Iscmin for a fuse The protective unit (or device)… Read more
Jul 02, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy Efficiency
How to achieve energy-efficient lighting?
Technological development has focused primarily on such things as the fluorescent lamp and the ballast and has chiefly been geared to boosting their luminous efficacy. The chart “Milestones to energy… Read more
Jun 13, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy Efficiency
KNX automation makes buildings more efficient
In light of climate change and increasingly scarce resources, the energy-efficient operation of buildings is gaining in importance. Essential requirements for this are an energy-efficient architectural design, an insulated building… Read more
Apr 15, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi
Energy Efficiency
NEMA TP1 Energy Efficiency Standard
Most commercial and industrial facilities require several low-voltage transformers to decrease the voltage received from the utility to the voltages used by various loads such as lighting, computers and other… Read more
Jan 08, 2011 | By Edvard Csanyi
