Power Factor: The silent killer

Have you ever looked at your electricity bill and wondered why you are being charged for more than your consumption? This problem is often faced by industrial consumers, who are billed on kVAh supplied instead of kWh consumed. Let us first try to understand what these terms mean and what role does power factor play in your electricity consumption.

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Go Green This Earth Day with Zenatix

Climate change is no more a thing of the future, it is no more about making the planet inhabitable for the future generations. It is happening right here, right this moment. Many of us discard the “theory” of climate change pointing towards the extra snowy winters in their towns. A simple explanation to that is that as temperatures rise, more water vapour is held in the atmosphere which leads to more intense rain and snow storms. Duration of cold weather decreases but the intensity can very well increase.

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OpenWRT Rewiring with USB Support

This post is about making an OpenWRT image with USB dongle support. We, as a part of our kit that collects and sends data of energy meters over the net required to use routers in the solution along with the raspberry.

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Diesel Generator- Power Factor and Efficiency

Our focus here is only on power factor and its effect on output KW. Most of DG manufacturers mention0.8 as rated power factor of DG. But it doesn’t mean that DG must be operated at 0.8 power factor at all the time

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Reactive Power Compensation- Capacitor Panel

Power factor improvement has always been a crucial area of concern for all industrial plants and big office spaces incurring large electricity cost.

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Relation between Production and Energy Consumption

Every manufacturing facility has different stages between raw material and finished commercial product. These different stages have individual motor circuit control (MCC) units, supplied from the ACB in primary control panel

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Importance of Transformer Efficiency – Effect of Loading

Distribution transformer is a part of every electrical power network at user end. If a facility is being supplied on HT from the utility, transformer and its losses comes under user’s responsibility. Like any other equipment its efficiency is calculated as the ratio of output power and input power. As transformer operates on the magnetizing phenomenon and it has no rotating parts, its efficiency is very high. It usually stays above 95% but as the power flow across a transformer is very high even small changes in terms of efficiency percentage gives significant energy savings.

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K-Factor for Transformer

K-factor for an electrical network primarily relates to non-linear loads and is defined as a number representing the effect of harmonics on the heating of transformer. For calculating the K-factor all the harmonics up to a predefined limit are considered.

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Tackling Electricity Theft in India

Indian government has announced an ambitious plan of setting up hundreds of smart cities across the country. However, no city can be called a smart city unless government can provide uninterrupted power. One of the major reasons behind long power cuts and huge losses for electricity distribution companies is electricity theft. India is one of the worst affected countries and controlling theft is imperative to provide uninterrupted power to the entire country.

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