Circuit Protection

The 12 Most Common Mistakes of Specifying Circuit Protection for Equipment - From ETA Circuit Protection and Control.

The following excellent protection articles By GEORGE W. FARRELL and FRANK R. VALVODA, P.E have been issued by the folks at the Consulting Specifying Engineer website http://www.csemag.com.

The Art of Protecting Electrical Systems, Part 1: Introduction and Scope

The Art of Protecting Electrical Systems, Part 2: System Analysis

The Art of Protecting Electrical Systems, Part 3: System Analysis

The Art of Protecting Electrical Systems, Part 4: System Analysis

The Art of Protecting Electrical Systems, Part 5: System Analysis

The Art of Protecting Electrical Systems, Part 6: System Analysis

The Art of Protecting Electrical Systems, Part 7: Equipment Short Circuit Ratings

The Art of Protecting Electrical Systems, Part 8: Short-Circuit Calculations

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The Must-Visit Engineering Museums
16 May 2022

In honor of International Museum Day, why not celebrate the museums that give visitors unrivaled access to everything we love about engineering?

International Museum Day takes place on 18 May, and if you live in a city or town with a museum, why not find out if your local museum is running a promotion to give free entry on the day or presenting a talk about an exhibition?

The day was started in 1977 by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to draw attention to the impact of museums on individual and broader communities, and also the value they have socially and economically.

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Agriculture Automation Is A New Engineering Frontier
13 May 2022

Population growth, global warming, and the advancement of technology have meant that Agriculture Automation is a needed and positive response to traditional agriculture.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) allows for better monitoring of global crops and all-important data on what is available in terms of food resources and vital resources for the world, like water management.

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Why Automate Agriculture?

In the 2016 paper Automation in Agriculture: A Study the dawn of automation was explored.

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How Not To Let Robots Steal Your Job
13 May 2022

When it comes to automation and bold headlines like ‘robots taking human jobs’ one thing is almost never mentioned – how humans are able to keep their jobs despite digitization.

A big factor that allows humans to still outperform machines and automation is the application of soft skills.

Robots have to compete with humans too

Think of it almost like a professional competition, and just like humans have to face colleagues to climb the corporate ladder, so do robots.

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EIT Students Get To Experience Cutting-Edge Automation
13 May 2022

A group of lecturers and students from the EIT Melbourne Campus Master of Engineering (Industrial Automation) program visited Elenium Automation in May.

This visit showed the practical science of AI technologies and covered self-help automation at airports, and how these technologies are improving user experiences.

Elenium Automation is an Australian AI success story, having entered the market with VYGR. The system is a touchless check-in biometric suite for passengers to control parts of their journey easily.

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A Human Side of Technology and AI is Ethics
11 May 2022

We love new technology, it is what is driving the human race forward to find solutions to life’s biggest problems. In fact, technology like facial recognition streamlines simple tasks like unlocking your phone.

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But it also creates a space for nefariousness. In 2016 an alarming realization was made when Apple’s iPhone couldn’t recognize users with deep or deeper skin tones.

In fact, the technology was predominately tested on white people and people with light skin tones, excluding consumers that don’t embody those physical traits since the technology was simply unable to recognize their skin.

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The Energy Transition - How Will It Evolve?

What does 'energy transition' mean? As with any definition, there are many we could use. One proposed here is this, "Energy Transition is the specific change/s from one state to another of energy systems. Energy systems have specific patterns of both energy supply and demand quantities and qualities; this is their given state". Quite a definition! If we look at history there have been three energy transitions so far: (1) wood to coal, (2) coal to oil, (3) coal and oil to natural gas.

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Introduction to Low Voltage Protective Devices

Protective devices play a key role in the electrical engineering design of power systems and networks. The selection of the device is dependent on the type of equipment or load and the speed with which the device is to operate.

This webinar aims to provide a foundation for the purpose of protective devices and the nature of fault protection they provide. In particular, we will look at the characteristics and operation of circuit breakers and fuses.

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Current Trends on Concrete as Construction Material to Capture CO2

Worldwide concrete is the most widely consumed civil construction material regarding its versatility, strength, and durability, among other benefits. Concrete is used in almost every type of construction, including homes, buildings, roads, bridges, airports, and tunnels. However, the environmental impacts of cement (and thus concrete) production are significant, considering a mean value of 0.948 kg CO2/kg Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC) for the life cycle CO2 footprint of OPC. According to The Global CO2 Initiative (2016) research revealed that significant progress in CO2U has been made in the past five years (2011-16), with many technologies shown to be scalable.

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The Importance of Considering the Three Sustainable Pillars in Construction

A common misconception is to understand sustainability as related to just environmental aspects. Indeed, sustainability is a concept based on a triple-bottom-line framework comprised of environmental, social, and economic aspects. It is clear that addressing any of the three pillars of sustainability in isolation will often result in a trade-off. Therefore, in order to achieve sustainability in a project, it is necessary to use a balancing approach, paying equal attention to all three dimensions.

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