Challenges for IoT-based Smart Grid
As a result of the smart grid evolution, some recent enabling technologies have emerged to reduce the number of communication protocols and handle big amounts of data. The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most recent enabler for the smart grid.
Earthing and Lightning Protection
Equipment and building protection is provided by low impedance grounding and bonding between electrical services, protective devices, equipment and other conductive objects – so...
Dielectric Failure Analysis of T&D Line Equipment
Transmission & Distribution line equipment are stressed with a variety of transients, fluctuations and abnormalities. These abnormalities affect the dielectric strength of equipment. Dielectric...
ENERGY SECURITY AND GHG MITIGATION PART 1
We have arrived a long way from the days when people debated whether global warming is real, some of us would ridicule our ageing ...
Mitigating Wildfire Risks in High Fire Zones
As climate change continues to affect our planet, the frequency, and intensity of natural disasters, such as wildfires, have increased dramatically. One of the...
Innovative Protection Philosophy
The major electrical assets in an Industrial Plant are Generators, Transformers, Motors, HT & LT switchgears, HT cables, Capacitor banks. The Generators and large...
Electricity Initiated Fire Hazard
The object of the study is to examine efficacy of the prevailing safety regulations with regard to easing out incidences of electricity initiated fire hazard in electrical installations, and effectiveness of enforcing mechanism to curb thereof... - Ritabrata Sanyal
Electrification Of High Rise Buildings
Once the estimated total demand has been arrived at, we have to decide how we are going to distribute the power... - C V Govinda Raju
Stator Earth Fault Protection for Generators
The article reveals that 3rd Harmonic voltage generation is prime criterion to deploy the 100 per cent Stator Earth fault protection. - Dinesh Pawar
Intrinsically Safe True RMS Digital Multimeter – KM 822sEX
‘Kusam-Meco’, pioneers of digital multimeters & clampmeters in India have introduced for first time a new intrinsically safe true RMS Digital Multimeter with PC interface model KM 822sEX. It has high transient protection of 12 KV (1.2/50mS) lightning surge.
Protection Testing for Limited Budgets – CMC 310
As the technology behind protection equipment has progressed, simple single-phase and transformer-based test devices are no longer up to the job. The transmission, transformer, motor or generator protection standards to be met in these systems tend to be numerical and three- or multi-phase in nature…
Increase plant safety, reduce maintenance costs with smart plastics from igus
New intelligent plastic solutions offer many options for predictive maintenance.
Intricacies of Lightning – Part 1
Lightning, the visible discharge of electricity that occurs when a region of a cloud acquires an excess electrical charge, either positive or negative, that...
Advanced measuring solutions for electrical maintenance and safety
We often find the electrical maintenance engineers and facility inspectors are trying their best to ensure uninterrupted service. Many a time they have to...
7 Tips To Prevent Mishaps Related To Kite Flying
In India, kite flying is a very common game or leisure activity. However, wherever overhead electric lines, especially high voltage lines, are extended, this game may turn fatal.
Leveraging Power of IoT to Smart Cities
In smart cities, from traffic to security surveillance, from water distribution to electricity theft, from pollution control to waste management, are aimed to be powered by IoT, leveraging devices, sensors and real-time apps. - Pankaj Goyal
FLIR Thermal Imaging Cameras Help Prevent Power Failures at Utilities
‘Detecting maintenance issues before failures occur is crucial to E.ON Bayern’...
Reducing Lightning Strike Fatalities
More than 2500 people are dying due to lightning strikes in India every year. About 90% of them are those engaged in agricultural activities....
Economy Is The Base Of Ecological Efficiency
According to the statistics of the insurers, the most frequent cause of damage to electrical items and of their failure are surge voltages caused by lightning strikes and switching operations…
UPS and Surge Protective Devices
Combining high-quality protective devices with innovative arrester technology, surge protective devices ensure a high degree of system availability and safety in all areas of electrical engineering. - Dr Gopalkrishna Dhruvaraj Kamalapur