Rationalizing an investment in a facility's infrastructure can be a difficult prospect for any plant engineer or technician, often requiring extensive justification. Investments that are deemed ...

IEEE PES PLAIN TALK courses for the power industry professional will help you to understand technical aspects of the electric power industry, even if you do not have an engineering background. You ...

Understanding power factor (PF) is important because it gives us a clear understanding of the efficiency of an electrical system. Put simply, it’s the ratio of true power and apparent power, which ...

When I began my power industry career years ago (initially in the chemistry lab of a coal-fired power plant), the criticality of proper chemistry control of steam boilers, cooling water systems, and ...

A simple fact of life is that only power that is under control is useful power, according to Dr. Aleksandar Dimitrovski. The same goes for electrical power, and Dimitrovski, researcher and instructor ...

Battery input (portable equipment) - Because of the size and weight restrictions of portable equipment, this power-management subsystem is usually integrated with the rest of the electronic system.

Solar power for a shed lets you go fully off-grid for your workshop or another outbuilding. Independent of the home’s electrical system, the solar shed can be located anywhere on the ...

What equipment should be installed? A true power monitoring system contains two or more discrete metering points that are interconnected through some medium. The three primary components of a power ...