The Community Hospital of Watervliet, founded in 1949 as a regional health care provider, serves more than a dozen communities. To ensure that their facility will have full power in the event of a utility outage, the hospital's board of directors invested in a 750 kilowatt Gemini Twin Pack genset...
A major city in the Southeastern United States had been using six Philadelphia Gear gas turbine generators to supplement their power grid during times of peak usage. The generators were in use for nearly 30 years and had never undergone a complete oil change. Adding to the problem, the city...
The Mars Society brings together a broad coalition of scientists, academicians, engineers, and a host of Mars enthusiasts from every walk of life. The MDRS had been forced to rely upon 7 kilowatt gasoline generators. They were short-lived, unreliable, insufficient in capacity, and required crew members to break simulation three...
The people of Xcalak were dissatisfied with their diesel generators because it was expensive to ship fuel to the village and because the generators kept breaking down. But when the villagers turned to their government, a bold new solution emerged: adding solar electric modules and wind generators to the existing...
Cordova Dam is located at Cordova Mines, Ontario. The project was put up for public tender, a process in which APS Algonquin Power Systems was chosen. This project was created at an old fish hatchery with an existing Ministry of Natural Resources MNR dam. The land and waterpower are on...
When terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan, the loss of life and property was vast. Con Edison responded quickly to start bringing power back on-line and Marson Energy was there to help them. Marson Energy sited a 750/1000 kWe natural gas generator to provide clean power for...
The Concord Regional Airport is a modern aviation facility serving the business and recreation travelers arriving and departing the area. To keep aviation activities going in the event of a power outage, the Concord Regional Airport relies upon three standby generators from Generac Power Systems. Each one supports a critical...
The owner of a high-rise office tower in Toronto wanted to employ an existing emergency generator to reduce peak demand. This objective required that the generator be capable of operating in parallel with the local utility system. Kinectrics was asked to perform a feasibility study and develop control, operating and...
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Emissions were measured from 15 diesel fueled back-up generators representing the most comprehensive tests of actual in-use generators made to date. These measurements were made following the EPA protocol and included particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, total hydrocarbons, and aldehydes. Data are presented on emissions at different...
In this document a method to estimate the potential to pollute the electricity network with harmonics due to large scale implementation of small grid connected micro generators with inverters, like photovoltaic, is laid down. The method is called the 'Complex Conductance Measurement Method'. Although this method is written for inverters...
The paper focuses on ASCO Series 346 Digital Power Control System, which is a standardized two-engine generator paralleling system offering the sophisticated functionality normally found in custom designs. Reliably starts, synchronizes, parallels, monitors, and protects two engine-generator sets for prime power and emergency power applications. Automatically manages power transfer for...
In the past several years the cyclic nature of Heat Recovery Steam Generators, HRSG's, has increased dramatically. There are many methods for evaluating cyclic service. Several methods for evaluating cycle life are compared for their use on HRSG's. A discussion of strengths and weaknesses of each method is presented. This...
Given a set of three generator circles in a plane, we want to find a circumcircle of these generators. This problem is a part of well-known Apollonius' 10th Problem and is frequently encountered in various geometric computations such as the Voronoi diagram for circles. In addition, there can be several...
This paper is on the electricity consumption by paper mills & the different kinds of generator used by them. Pulp Mills originally installed cogeneration to take advantage of the higher efficiency of high-pressure boilers - 4000 to 6000 kPa. Backpressure and automatic extraction turbines extract the work available in the...
The paper reveals about a Diffusion-Absorption Cooling Machine with 2.5kW cooling power driven by solar thermal collectors that was developed, constructed and tested. The diffusion absorption process based on ammonia-water solutions and an inert gas for pressure equilibration has been known for about a century, but the only machines constructed...
The purpose of this paper is to establish whether a case exists for detailed development to proceed with the concept of direct-acting linear electrical machines as generators within wave power systems. Developments in permanent-magnet materials and in new electromagnetic topologies to exploit their properties offer the prospect of electrical generators...
This paper elaborates and provides details about steam generators which help in fuel savings. With energy costs at an all-time high and expected to remain there for a while, it is more important than ever to look at alternatives to the conventional boiler-plant design. The coil-type steam generator is only...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] CORPORATE social responsibility CSR is a concept that frequently overlaps with similar approaches such as corporate sustainability, corporate sustainable development, corporate responsibility, and corporate citizenship. While CSR does not have a universal definition, many see it as the private sector's way of integrating the economic, social,...
