EPRI Journal articles from March 1999

EPRI Journal archives from March 1999

Timing Is Everything.
March 22, 1999... Timing is everything. This old maxim is heard repeatedly at social and business occasions alike--in dinner party palaver on such topics as love, politics, sports, and the stock market, as well as in boardroom deliberations. But the phrase can...

Power Quality Diagnostic System.
March 22, 1999... Power quality disturbances cost electricity users significant losses in productivity each year. Driven by increasing competition, electric utilities are responding to customers' PQ concerns with new contracts and services, often working...

Bundling Report.
March 22, 1999... Given the dramatic changes occurring in the electric power industry due to deregulation and retail competition, power companies have a crucial need to develop offerings that will retain customers and promote future growth. This report,...

SmartLoop 2000.
March 22, 1999... EPRI and GC Controls of Greene, New York, have teamed up to introduce a low-cost digital controller that maximizes the performance and efficiency of water-loop heat pump (WLHP) systems. Known as SmartLoop 2000, this reliable...

Flywheel Market Analysis.
March 22, 1999... Process industries now routinely rely on electronic control and monitoring systems, and the trend is toward the increasing use of such systems. As a result, these industries are becoming more vulnerable to power quality disturbances on...

Gas Turbine Overhauls.
March 22, 1999... A complete overhaul of a combined-cycle power plant can take as long as 10-12 weeks. Proper planning for such an outage is critical in avoiding delays, cost overruns, and other complications. EPRI's GTOP (Gas Turbine Overhaul Plan) Combined...

Power Electronics Milestone Reached.
March 22, 1999... The world's first gallium nitride (GaN) MOSFET--metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor--has been fabricated in high-power electronics R&D work sponsored by EPRI and the U.S. Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency...

New Firm for Membrane Technology.
March 22, 1999... A startup company focused on the commercial development and application of an innovative liquid membrane purification technology has been formed by EPRI, SRI International, Spectrum Laboratories, and Edison Technology Solutions. Called...

Pulsed Laser Could Speed Communications.
March 22, 1999... An ultrafast pulsed laser developed in an EPRI lightning diversion project shows significant promise for making fiber-optic communications lightning fast--three orders of magnitude faster than with current technology EPRI is pursuing work on...

Mouse Study Finds No EMF-Leukemia Link.
March 22, 1999... A recently completed study of the effects of magnetic fields on the incidence of leukemia in nearly 2800 laboratory mice found no significant effects of such exposure. The study was the largest life-span animal study ever sponsored by EPRI and...

Powering up superConducting Cable.
March 22, 1999... Background information for this article was provided by Paul Grant (pgrant@epri.com), Strategic Science and Technology, and Don Von Dollen (Dvondoll@epri.com) and Ralph Samm (rsamm@epri.com), Energy Development and Utilization Division. ...

Fast Charging for Lift Trucks.
March 22, 1999... Background information for this article was provided by Gary Purcell and Gloria Krein (ghrein@cpri.com). Energy Delivery' and Utilization Division. Fast Charging for Lift Trucks was written by Leslie Lamarre, Journal senior feature writer,...

WELDING RESEARCH HEATS UP.
March 22, 1999... Background information for this article was provided by Vis Viswanathan (rviswana@epri.com), Energy Conversion Division, and David Gandy (davgandy@ epri.com) and Shane Findlan (sfindlan@epri.com), Repair and Replacement Applications Center. ...

Expert System Enables Near-Perfect Ice Storage.
March 22, 1999... A new controller that improves the performance of ice storage systems could give building owners greater incentive to install new storage systems or update existing ones. The controller, called the NOC (for near-optimal controller), was...

Flywheel Extends UPS Battery Life.
March 22, 1999... The first installation of a flywheel energy storage device approved by Underwriters' Laboratories for use with an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) has been completed in a project sponsored by EPRI and Constellation Energy Source, a subsidiary...

ComEd Cuts Costs With Transformer Diagnostics.
March 22, 1999... Unicom Corporation's Commonwealth Edison subsidiary has documented the potential to realize substantial savings on transformer maintenance, thanks to the effectiveness of an array of external diagnostic tests evaluated in a collaborative...

Correction.(correction to article appearing in September/October 1998 EPRI Journal)(Correction Notice)
March 22, 1999... The feature entitled Charting Power System Security," which appeared in the Journal's September/October 1998 issue included mention of the Voltage Security Assessment (VSA) software tool. The article should also have mentioned that VSA is owned...