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 ...

We're always looking for ways to make more power without spending too much money. We bolt on carburetors and intake manifolds. We also perform cam swaps in our quest for power. When that doesn't meet ...

Power management plays a major role in virtually every piece of electronic equipment. An effective power-management subsystem can affect the reliability, performance, and time to market of associated ...

The power demands and efficiency requirements of modern telecommunication systems are growing with each generation of equipment. As a result, the need for sophisticated power management design ...

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 ...