Recent content by tomatge

Personally I'm a little nervous about this thread. You say that you are "a younger, inexperienced electrical engineer" and "am aware of what a relay coordination study is" - which suggests to me that you haven't actually done one or even truly appreciate what's involved or at stake. If you do...

You are using a Micom P342 for a 2kW generator? Astonishing. The relay must cost more than the machine it's protecting!

Thanks for your responses guys, I am about to start work on this and will see how I get on. I will take your suggestions into account.

I have developed a number of applications using the GE-Fanuc series 90-70 PLC's. These have been working well for some time. But a possible client has asked if I can provide one application on the latest series PAC RX7i controller. Has anybody experience of converting applications to the new...

Such devices can also be rented from Aggreko on the UK

I am presently looking at a replacement to an old proprietary SCADA system, and have looked at several. The one that I am lookinmg closely at is Factorylink, made by US-Data (now part of Tecnomatix). Website is http://www.tecnomatix.com What I like about this product is : Scalability Ease of...

Platts have a quite useful introduction to the LNG market. It is not very detailed, but certainly quite easy to understand and may be a good starting point. The address is : http://www.platts.com/Natural%20Gas/Resources/News%20Features/LNG/index.html

athomas This is an interesting investigation ... if your client is running 100MW of diesel power, I've probably heard of the site - can you give a clue as to where this is (even if only what part of world if you have confidentiality issues). I would add that you need to find out what type of...

rmw "I only hug the LAWYERS ..." I suspect this is something of a Freudian slip - you know, where you say one thing but really mean your mother.

Heydave At last ... this question, or variants of it, has been posted many times. Your first paragraph is the clearest and most logical answer I recall seeing ... star from me !

Taylorg I'm in Europe, but am aware of Caribbean utilities that operate similar plant to ours. I would be interested to know how they are getting on.

You need to appreciate the characteristics of a slow speed diesel engine to understand the difficulties on this subject, which is why I posted in the Marine Engineering forum. The techniques I suggested are not actually "if all else fails" rather they are the very techniques that the major slow...

I work for a stationary power plant that uses slow speed deisel (Sulzer RNF and RTA series) engines. At present in my location there is no specific environmental legislation in place in respect of emissions from the power plant, but this is currently under review. Should legislation be...

I think you were right first time. I believe IRR stands for Internal Rate of Return. This is method of financial analysis by which accountants justify withholding money from engineers, who simply want to spend it on fun and interesting projects. Naturally, the accountants will not tell you how...

It seems to me that the scheme proposed is a method of providing communications to a remote I/O station, with redundant communications paths (ie. fibre and microwave). At first sight, I would suggest the scheme design will be expensive. Firstly, I would establish what type of data...