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Heating Effects Through Harmonic Distortion On Electric Cables In The Built Environment, Kevin O'Connell
Heating Effects Through Harmonic Distortion On Electric Cables In The Built Environment, Kevin O'Connell
Doctoral
Under ideal circumstances, electric power supply voltage and current waveforms should be sinusoidal. However, this is very seldom the case in the built environment, due to the proliferation of non-linear loads. Examples of non-linear loads are those containing switched mode power supplies, reactors and electronic rectifiers/inverters. Common devices such as personal computers, fluorescent lighting, electric motors, variable speed drives, transformers and reactors and virtually all other electronic equipment are examples of non-linear loads. Non-linear loads are the norm in the built environment rather than the exception. Such loads produce complex current and voltage waves and simple spectral analysis of these …
Proximity Heating Effects In Power Cables, Jonathan Blackledge, Eugene Coyle, Kevin O'Connell
Proximity Heating Effects In Power Cables, Jonathan Blackledge, Eugene Coyle, Kevin O'Connell
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Researchers at Technological University Dublin (DIT) have developed a new modelling system for evaluating the two and three dimensional heating effects in power cables due to harmonic distortion and proximity field effects.