Testing and Commissioning
Pre-commissioning checks and tests of high voltage current transformers (CTs)
Once erection is completed, various pre-commissioning checks and tests are performed to ensure the healthiness of the switchyard equipment prior to their energization. This technical article explains various major electrical… Read more
Oct 02, 2019 | By Edvard
Energy and Power
Good practice rules for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) of LV conductors
The search for an overall optimization of the installation with regard to electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and its ability to function without suffering or emitting excessive interference, comes via a set… Read more
Sep 30, 2019 | By Edvard
Maintenance
Protective grounding requirements for transmission and distribution lines
This technical article covers protective grounding requirements for steel tower and wood pole supported transmission and distribution lines, and insulated power cables. Protective grounds must be installed so all phases… Read more
Sep 25, 2019 | By Edvard
Low Voltage
Things you MUST know when commissioning low voltage switchgear and circuit breakers
Purchasing low voltage switchgear is not that easy, it’s not like purchasing a new TV or laptop. You have to be very experienced and deadly serious when specifying and ordering… Read more
Sep 23, 2019 | By Edvard
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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…...
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Sep 20, 2019 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
High Voltage
Major components you can spot while looking at HV/EHV GIS (Gas-insulated switchgear)
Gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) is a piece of high voltage equipment that is being constantly developed day by day. The basics of GIS technology is more or less the same, but… Read more
Sep 18, 2019 | By Edvard
Low Voltage
Operating centralized automatic compensation systems when supplying linear loads
For energy-efficient operation of decentralized multiply-fed industrial networks, each load-centre substation must have its own centralized reactive-power compensation system for automatic PF correction. The automatic reactive-power compensation systems used for… Read more
Sep 16, 2019 | By Edvard
Power Substation
Testing and commissioning of HV power transformers, circuit breakers, CTs and VTs
As you already know, substations are the points for controlling the supply of power on different routes by means of various equipment such as power transformers, circuit breakers, CTs/VTs, compensating… Read more
Sep 11, 2019 | By Edvard
Protection
Interference and noise affecting transmission media in protection signalling
The transmission media that provide the communication links involved in relay protection signalling are private pilots, rented pilots or channels, power line carrier, radio and the newest and the most… Read more
Sep 09, 2019 | By Edvard
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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…...
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Sep 05, 2019 | By Miodrag Kokotovic
Energy and Power
The facts about modern rotary and static uninterruptible power systems (UPS)
This technical article covers the brief explanation of the power quality issues with the reference to the past as well as two main types of modern UPS systems – rotary… Read more
Sep 04, 2019 | By Edvard
Electrical Lectures
Reactive power and power factor correction essentials to ALWAYS keep on mind
Why reactive power and power factor correction are so important? Well, for experienced engineers, this is not the question but the fact. For young students who meet this matter and… Read more
Sep 02, 2019 | By Edvard
Energy Generation
Generators applicable to high reliability requirements of healthcare and other facilities
Generator systems described in this technical article are applicable to healthcare requirements, as well as other facilities that may require a high degree of reliability. The electrical supply for data… Read more
Aug 28, 2019 | By Edvard
High Voltage
10 most common locations of shunt capacitors installed in a power system
It’s quite simple, using shunt capacitor banks to supply the leading currents required by the load relieves the generator from supplying that part of the inductive current. Both distribution and… Read more
Aug 26, 2019 | By Edvard
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Case study: Failure of a transformer & switchgear buses due to a ferroresonance event
First of all, it’s good to know that the possibility of a transformer ferroresonance condition rapidly increases as the transformer is closer to generator zone. This condition may occur when…...
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Aug 23, 2019 | By Edvard
