Electrical Calculations Vol 4

Synopsis:

The book demonstrates to the electrical engineer on how to perform battery sizing and selection, inverter sizing and selection, UPS, genset and solar panel sizing.

The book is presented in a Q&A format for ease of understanding and application.

The full list of topics covered are reflected in the table of contents. A snippet of a section of the book is also included.

 

Table of Contents

1. List of figures. iv
2. List of tables. iv

iii.   SI units basic. v

1. Derived units. v
2. Accepted non-SI units. vi
3. Electrical formulas. vi

vii.      Standard electrical unit of measure. vii

viii.     Multiples and sub multiples. vii

1. Battery watt hours. 1
2. Battery back-up time example 1. 1
3. Battery back-up time example 2. 1
4. Charging time of a lead acid battery. 2
5. Battery size of load example 1. 3
6. Battery size of load example 2. 4
7. Lead acid batteries temperature correction factor. 5
8. Battery sizing 3. 5
9. Inverter and battery bank example 1. 9
10. Inverter and battery sizing example 2. 10
11. Sizing of a diesel standby generating set 1. 13
12. Sizing of diesel generating set: power management 18
13. Sizing of horizontal cylindrical fuel tank capacity. 22
14. Sizing of vertical cylindrical fuel tank capacity. 22
15. Sizing of rectangular fuel tank capacity. 23
16. Sizing of diesel fuel tank for generating set 1. 24
17. Sizing of diesel fuel tank for generating set 2. 25
18. Solar panel system example 1. 26
19. Solar system design example 2. 29
20. UPS Sizing. 32
21. Solar system sizing. 35

 

 

       i.            List of figures

Figure 1: Schematic line diagram.. 12

Figure 2: Horizontal Tank. 22

Figure 3: Vertical Tank. 23

 

     ii.            List of tables

Table 1: Summary of load demand for generating set 17