April 2014

Because of the sensitive nature of the vital and essential consumers with regard to personnel safety and production continuity, it is established practice to supply their associated switchboards with dual, or occasionally triple, feeders. For non-essential switchboards it may be practical to use only one feeder. For switchboards other than those for the generator or […]

Since the 1980s the power MOSFET has superseded the BJT in inverters for drives. Like the BJT, the MOSFET is a three-terminal device and is available in two versions, the n-channel and the P-channel. The N-channel is the most widely used, and is shown in Figure 2.18. The main (load) current flows into the drain

In order to reduce the mechanical (due to electro-dynamic forces) and thermal stresses on the object to be protected, the current must be interrupted right during the initiation of the short-circuit, before the full prospective value can be attained (as for example to avoid the welding of the contactor contacts). This is achieved by: •

A metal oxide varistor (MOV) is built from zinc oxide disks in series and parallel arrangement to achieve the required protective level and energy requirement. One to four columns of zinc oxide disks are installed in each sealed porcelain container, similar to a high-voltage surge arrester. A typical MOV protection system contains several porcelain containers,

Since most loads are inductive and consume lagging reactive power, the compensation required is usually supplied by leading reactive power. Shunt compensation of reactive power can be employed either at load level, substation level, or at transmission level. It can be capacitive (leading) or inductive (lagging) reactive power, although in most cases as explained before,

Except in a very few special situations, electrical energy is generated, transmitted, distributed, and utilized as alternating current (AC). However, AC has several distinct disadvantages. One of these is the necessity of reactive power that needs to be supplied along with active power. Reactive power can be leading or lagging. While it is the active

The fact that interconnections between power systems are increasingly common does not imply that they are as simple as connecting a few wires. Interconnections obviously entail the expense of constructing and operating transmission lines and substations, or in the case of HVDC, converter stations. Interconnections also entail other costs, technical complexities, and risks. For AC

There are number of technical rationales for grid interconnections, many of which have economic components as well. Technical rationales for grid interconnection include: • Improving reliability and pooling reserves: The amount of reserve capacity that must be built by individual networks to ensure reliable operation when supplies are short can be reduced by sharing reserves

REACTIVE POWER: Reactive power is a concept used by engineers to describe the background energy movement in an Alternating Current (AC) system arising from the production of electric and magnetic fields. These fields store energy which changes through each AC cycle. Devices which store energy by virtue of a magnetic field produced by a flow

Shunt reactors are connected in parallel with the rest of the power network. Shunt reactor can be treated as a device with the fixed impedance value. Therefore the individual phase current is directly proportional to the applied phase voltage (i.e. I=U/Z). Thus during external fault condition, when the faulty phase voltage is lower than the