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Power quality monitoring programs are often driven by the demand for improving the system wide power quality performance. Many industrial and commercial customers have equipment that is sensitive to power disturbances, and therefore, it is more important to understand the quality of power being provided… - Ankush N Bahale

Safety, reliability, energy efficiency and lower carbon trails are some of the key benefits of smart power in homes, buildings and industries... - Ashutosh Shukla

Among the problems facing the control and management of large power systems, the most important is the search for a better method of power system optimization... - C S Indulkar

The engineering firm Adler in Herten in the German Ruhr area is using the top-of-the-range FLIR T1020 handheld thermal imaging cameras for maintenance applications...

Motion planning has been studied for 30 years, and recent advances have brought the time required to find a plan for a sophisticated robot down to a few seconds…

Could there be a fairly reliable way to forecast future electricity demand by taking into account various variables in order to make economic and technical decisions? Here is an article which looks into a method of doing precisely such a thing. - K Ramalingam, C S Indulkar

As a country, we can boast of our six major strengths as well as we do have our own weaknesses... - T. Harinarayana

The large scale penetration of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) in the transportation segment makes the utility power network more stressed and less efficient due to negative impacts of integration of PEVs for charging the batteries. This article describes the PEV technology, charging strategies of PEVs, smart grids and integration of PEVs and types of energy storage systems...  - K Ramalingam, C S Indulkar

Energy is lost in terms of waste heat , discharge of char material (waste) etc in the process. By integration of heat utilization and using radiator, the loss of energy may be reduced... - Robbin Pramanick

In India, long term power accesses have continuously dominated the electricity power market and still the issue like bringing long term and short term players together in meeting the load in real time are to be addressed... - Dr S Prabhakar Karthikeyan, D P Kothari

Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (MAHAGENCO) has the highest overall generation capacity and the highest thermal installed capacity amongst all the state power generation utilities in India... - Nitin Goel

In the traditional coal fired sector, a deviation in the traditional thinking of putting up of 350 MW and 660 MW plants is called for. Rapid capacity addition is possible by increase of unit size to 800-1200 MW and by going in for ultra and advanced ultra supercritical plants... - M. Siddhartha Bhatt

The grid collapse can cause half of the population to face darkness focusing a need of reliable well monitored supply system. Hybrid AC/DC microgrid can be the answer to resolve this problem of energy scarcity and uncertainity of supply – particularly for remote, sparsely geographically rural population... - Dr. Mrs. G. A. Vaidya, Prof. Mrs. Kalyani M. Kurundkar

Two approaches are used for pricing in day-ahead markets: Centralised nodal pricing and Bilateral... - P P Kulkarni,Kamal Vagrecha, Dr A P Dash

Research into the functionality and potential uses of robots did not grow substantially until the 20th century. Since the turn of the 20th century, research into the functionality and potential uses of robots has seen a lot of actions... - Dr. S. S. Verma

We will see a growing demand for increase in equipment operating rates, increased productivity and reduction in system construction costs... - Rajeev Sharma

The power quality issue is defined as any occurrence manifested in voltage, current, or frequency deviations those results in damage, upset, failure, or disoperation of end-use equipment. The history of Chaos Theory and Poincare Map are discussed here... - Rahul Shankar Bhagat, Mahesh Meena

The most important feature of wireless sensor networks is the elimination of wires in communication. Without wiring requirements, they can be deployed in a range of remote monitoring applications where running wires is prohibitive or impossible... - Lino A Tharakan

Energy measurement is the first step towards the energy management. Whether logging of consumption should be done on daily or weekly or monthly basis that depends on the usage of AC… - Ashok Sethuraman

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of NRAI technologies, advancements in future industrial and space systems will experience an exponential growth cycle like that is observed in the human genome... - P M Menghal