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Advanced Transformer Protection and Control
AREVA Substation Automation Solutions introduces the MiCOM P64X which preserves service life, and offers fast protection for transformer faults. Hosted on an advanced IED platform, the P64X incorporates differential, REF, thermal and overfluxing protection, plus backup protection for uncleared external faults. Model variants cover two & three winding transformers (including autotransformers), ... MoreArc-Flash Detection
New Relay from SEL The SEL-751A Feeder Protection Relay from Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories is now available with arc-flash detection (AFD) capability, providing automatic protection against dangerous arc-flash events in metal-clad switchgear. AFD interrupts power to the arc flash before it can cause significant damage or personal injury. Fiber-optic light sensors in the SEL-751A ... MoreBasler Plug-n-Play Relay add Arc Flash Detection
Basler Electric, the Retrofit Relay Experts have supplied several utilities and industrials users BE1-50/51B-Plug-n-Play Single-Phase Overcurrent relays over the years. The relays are direct replacements for electromechanical CO or IAC relays. They fit into existing cases, require no panel modifications or re-wiring. Panels can literally be upgraded in hours vs. days or weeks. Basler h... Morei-PCGRID Workshop
The annual i-PCGRID (Innovations in Protection and Control for Greater Reliability Infrastructure Development) workshop was held on March 18-20, 2009, in San Francisco, California. Some of the power industry's foremost authorities joined leading academic researchers, prominent government experts and regulatory practitioners from around the world at this sixth annual event. The wo... MoreInnovative NCT Network Computing Terminal
The Toshiba Network Computing Terminal is a device for monitoring electric power systems. Utilizing an embedded real-time OS and Java Virtual Machine together with web-server and mobile agent technologies, the NCT provides Synchrophasor functionality and instantaneous measurands. Setting and maintenance is achieved using a common browser. Many application are in practical use; Wide area mea... MoreMultilin 350 Feeder Protection System
Intuitive & Intelligent Feeder Protection System with Advanced Communications and Diagnostics The Multilin 350 protection relay provides the utility power distribution industry with a technologically advanced, easy to use, and intuitive overcurrent (50/51) protection relay. The Multilin 350 performs primary circuit protection of medium voltage distribution feeders. The robust Multilin 350... MoreRecloser & Sectionalizer Test Cable Solutions
OMICRON electronics has developed test cables to simplify testing of distribution reclosers and sectionalizers, including their controllers and switches, for use with the CMC 356/256 test sets. Each OMICRON test cable is designed with all components necessary to make an end-to-end direct connection between the test device and the CMC to allow testing of all functionality that the manufa... MoreTM 1703 Distributed I/O Module of the TG5700 RTU
Siemens Energy is announcing the introduction of the TM 1703 Distributed I/O Module to our TG5700 RTU product line. The TM 1703 improves the distributed capabilities of the TG5700 RTU by adding local IED ports, local PLC programmability and new electrical interfaces, like direct Pt-100 Ohm temperature probe inputs. Applications for the TG5700 RTU with TM 1703 I/O extend to Condition Based Mon... MoreTraveling Wave fault location
REASON International is introducing its line for Traveling Wave-based fault location in the North American market. Wave detection error due to misinterpretation of the fault is a major kind of error in many types of traveling wave-based equipment on the market. REASON has developed a very reliable method in order to record the correct traveling wave. The approach is to acquire the traveling wave... MoreTechnology News
'Magic' Lights - expected to slash household electricity use
A new way of making LEDs could see household lighting bills reduced by up to 75% in five years time, thanks to research at Cambridge University, UK. The new LEDs use Gallium Nitride (GaN), a man-made semiconductor that emits a brilliant bright light but uses very little electricity. Until now however, high production costs have made GaN lighting too expensive for widespread use in homes a... MoreShock- absorber
Power from bumps in the road A team of MIT undergraduate students has invented a shock absorber that generates electricity from small bumps in the road, while at the same time it smoothes the ride more effectively than conventional shocks. Hybrid vehicles use some of the wasted energy during breaking, so the team looked for additional places in a vehicle where energy is wasted. The suspe... MoreZigBee communications
The increasing interest around the world in development of "smart grids" requires the acceptance of communications standards that are designed specifically for low power, low data rate networks. The protocols need to be secure, robust, and resistant to outside RF interference in order to be used for industrial and home automation networks. IEEE 802.15.4 was designed to address the need for ... More
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