Details of energy, definition of energy,  unit of energy, relationship between them

Definition of energy: 

The ability or capability of a body for doing a work is known as energy. There are several kind of form of energy, but the most important ones are - 1. electrical energy, 2. mechanical energy and 3. thermal energy.

Now remember these energies are all interchangible.

Unit of energy:

Energy is a measurable quantity so we need to assign unit to energies, and as the energies are interchangeable so their unit should also have relation between them or same unit can be assigned because the energies are just in different forms.

1. Electrical Energy: The SI unit of electrical energy is watt-second also known as joule. Suppose there are two points which have a potential difference of 1 volt now a current of 1 ampere is flowing from one point to another. 

So Power is equal to 1 volt * 1 ampere =1 watt. 

Now if this continues for 1 second, then the energy consumed will be 1 watt * 1 second that is equal to 1 watt-second. 

In case the system is AC then another factor called power factor comes into picture, 

so, watt-second =1 volt * 1 ampere * power factor *1 second.

2. Mechanical Energy:

Unit of mechanical energy in SI system is Newton metre also known as joule. When a force of 1 Newton makes a body move by 1 metre distance then the work done on the body is 1 joule or 1 Newton metre.

3. Heat Energy:

Unit of heat energy in SI unit is joule. There are also other units that is calorie, British thermal unit or B. Th. U etc. Calories stands for the amount of heat energy that is required to increase the temperature of 1 gram water by 1 degree centigrade.

similarly British thermal unit can be expressed as the heat energy required to increase the temperature of one pound water by one degree fahrenheit.

Relationship between the unit of energy

All the three energies as mentioned above is convertible from one form to another, so their units are also have a relationship between them, and another thing is there to remember that all the three energies can do some work so they should have a common unit, and we can see that all the three energies have a common unit that is "Joule" now let us see the relationship between them.

Relationship between kWhr and Joule

1 kWhr (Unit)

= 1000 watt * 1 hr

=1*10^3 watt*3.6*10^3 sec.

=3.6*10^6 watt- sec= 3.6*10^6 Joule

Relationship between kWhr and N-m

1 N-m = 1 Joule

1 kWhr= 3.6*10^6 Joule

= 3.6*10^6 N-m

Relationship between Calorie and kWhr

1 kWhr=3.6*10^6 Joule

Again,

1 Calorie=4.18 Joule (Experimental value)

So, 

1 Joule= 1/4.18 Cal

So,

1 kWhr= 3.6*10^6/4.18 Cal

Basic of electrical energy|Electrical Energy Fundamentals

Energy means everything. Just imagine yourself with lots of energy. How many thing you can do. Similarly if you are without energy you won't be able to do anything. The backbone of development is energy. Our modern world is building continuously with the help of energy.

There are many variants of energy such as kinetic energy, static energy, thermal energy, e mechanical energy etc. But the most useful one is the electrical energy. Also as electrical Engineer we will focus on electrical energy. However please remember all energies are convertible from one form to another.

What are the major advantages of electrical energy?

Why electrical energy is so important?

We need energy in different forms some time for cooling, some time for heating, as light, as motion. Now I just rewind your basic and you can find that electrical energy can be converted to all of them. This is the main advantage of electrical energy. So let us list down the advantages of electrical energy.

1. Environment-friendly: Electrical energy clean and environment friendly. Pollutes the atmosphere very less. It does not produce toxic gases.

2.Ease of transmission distribution and control: You can transfer electrical energy over several thousand kilometres with the help of conductor. You can distribute it as you want also you can control the energy by only switching on or off a circuit.

3. Easily convertible: Electrical energy can be converted to rotational energy (motor), photoenergy (light), heat energy (heater or air conditioner), sound energy (speaker) etc. with ease. No other form of energy is such easily convertible.

Source of electrical energy!!!! No no we should say conversion of other energy into electrical energy.

We know that energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only transform from one form to another.

So there are many kind of preliminary source of energies from where electrical energy can be obtained.

The major sources and form of energies are

1. Fuel (solid/liquid/gas): Solid or coal, liquid or oil, or fuel gas have calorific values which releases heat when burnt. Now this heat is used to convert water into steam. This steam is thrown on steam turbine, so heat energy is converted to kinetic energy. The steam turbine is coupled with alternator. The alternator when rotates generates electrical energy. Liquid fuel is used in internal combustion engine which rotates and generator connected with it generate electrical energy. Gas is often used in gas turbine which generates electrical energy as generator connected with it.

2. Water: Water when stored at high level or its flow is restricted by dam, it stored static energy. So if it is released through a pipe the energy is released as kinetic energy. Now this water is fall on water turbine. The Kinetic linear energy is then converted into rotational energy. So the water turbine rotates and as alternator is coupled with the turbine so the alternator also starts rotating and generates electrical energy.

3. The Sun: The Sun gives us heat energy and photo or light energy. Both can be converted to electrical energy. From light energy emitted by sun, electrical energy can be obtained by using solar photovoltaic cell commonly known as solar panel, which converts light energy to electrical energy. Also the heat energy is collected via reflector and used to heat up the water which eventually converts into steam and operates the steam turbo generator.

4. Wind: At coastal area wind has high kinetic energy so the wind turbines are installed at coastal areas. With these wind turbine often known as wind mill a generator is coupled inside it. So when wind blows the turbine it starts rotating and the generator located inside also starts rotating and it generates electricity.

4. Nuclear: Nuclear energy is another kind of source from where we can extract electrical energy. There are sevaral radioactive material which participate in fission reaction and generates heat. This heat, coming out of the nuclear energy can converts water into steam. This steam is thrown to the turbine, the turbine rotates, and the alternator coupled with the turbine also rotates. So electricity is generated.

5. Chemical energy: Inside battery due to chemical reaction energy is generated.

These are the major source of energy. Apart from the above geo thermal energy, tidal energy etc. are also used for electrical energy generation.

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What is Momentary Paralleling of Transformer or incomers? Momentary Paralleling

In books you will mostly find parallel operation of transformers. In practice you will find its momentary operation. That is momentary Paralleling. Now there will come several questions.

1. What is momentary Paralleling?

2. Why we use momentary Paralleling?

3. Why continuous Paralleling of Transformer isn't used for distribution level?

Now let us answer one by one.

We all know that parallel operation of transformers means when two or more nos. of transformers are connected together in a same bus bar.

Main advantage of Paralleling is that addition of transformer can take up additional loads. But it has a major disadvantage. The main disadvantage of continuous parallel operation is that the fault level becomes double. So for distribution level parallel operation is hardly used. 

Suppose you need to deliver say 2 MVA power. Now if you select 2 nos of 1.25 MVA transformers with 6% percentage impedance and run them in parallel so their equivalent percentage impedance will be 6/2=3%. So total fault MVA will be 1.25/0.03=41.67 MVA

But if we select 2.5 MVA trafo with 9% impedance then our fault MVA will be 2.5/0.09=27.77 MVA.

Now one may say what if we consider 12% percentage impedance for 1.25 MVA trafo, but that is not feasible as that will cause huge voltage drop.

Moreover if one transformer fails you will loose 50% of source.

So it is often practiced to use the source with additional 100% capacity so that redundancy is maintained

Now you have understood why Paralleling is not used in distribution level.

Now comes the Momentary Paralleling. Momentary Paralleling is two transformers or two sources connected in parallel for a short duration, then either one of the source is disconnected or the Paralleling is discontinued.

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Suppose in the above picture there are two incomers. But one is in circuit or switched on and the other is off. Now you need to maintain source 1, so you want to off source 1 and want to feed the loads from source 2. If you switch off source 1 breaker, and then close source 2 breaker then all the loads will be shut down. And you will need to restart the entire system. So to avoid this interruption we will go for momentary Paralleling. So for a brief period of time both thr sources will connected i.e. paralleled. After a pre set time one source (Source 1) be tripped. So you need a trip selector switch or TSS to select which source will be tripped. But if the selected source fails to trip the incoming source (here source 2) will trip to avoid sustain Paralleling.

Now let us see another case where the system bus has two sources from two transformers and they are isolated by a bus coupler.

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Normal operating condition is both the incomers i.e. incomer 1 and incomer 2 is closed and delivering loads, and the bus coupler is open, so that there is no paralleling between the two sources. So here bus coupler is Paralleling components.

Case-1

Now as we mentioned that we select transformer with 100% backup so we can switch off one source. Suppose we want to take transformer 2 in maintanence, so we need to open the incomer 2 breaker, and for feeding loads of that bus section we need to close the buscoupler. Now we will do it by momentary Paralleling so that loads are not interrupted.

So our target is closing of bus coupler and

Opening of incomer 2 breaker. 

Remember that momentary Paralleling is a manual process, so we need to put the selection at manual mode. Only that will allow closure of all three breakers after synchro checking. Otherwise these three breakers will be interlocked, so you will be able to close only two breaker at a time.

Hence, Trip Selector switch i.e. TSS shall be at Incomer 2 position, i.e. incomer 2 will trip.

Now we will give close command to buscoupler. Synchro check relay will check the incoming source voltage details with the running system voltage details i.e. magnitude, phase sequence, frequency etc.

Incoming power source is determined by the trip Selector switch position.

After the synchro check relay compares the two circuits the bus coupler get closed if permissive is given by synchro check relay.

So now all the three sources are closed. And a timer get energized. After certain time incomer 2 will open and deactivate the timer.

Now here is an interesting thing, if the incomer 2 doesn't trip, the timer will remain energized, and then it will send trip signal to bus coupler so that sustain Paralleling doesn't occurs.

Case 2:

In case 1 we have seen that we have taken transformer 2 out of service for maintenance with closing the buscoupler, and shifting the loads to transformer 1 by momentary Paralleling. So suppose our transformer 2 is inspected and ready to be in operation, so we want to back in our normal operation i.e. two incomers are running and bus coupler is open. So here also we will do the same thing with momentary Paralleling.

Now our trip Selector switch or TSS will be at bus coupler, because we want to trip the bus coupler after successful momentary Paralleling.

And auto-manual selection shall be at manual mode operation. Often this is given as Auto-Independent-Manual selector switch.

Now we will give close command to incomer 2. Synchro check will be between bus Pt at bus B and line PT for incomer 2. If there is no variation or variations are with in tolerable limit incomer 2 will get closed, and after some time bus coupler will open.

Case 3

Scenario may me something else. Our switchboard incomers and bus coupler often has auto change over scheme. Suppose two incomers ar closed and bus coupler is opened. Now there is a problem at transformer 2, so incomer 2 will trip due to under voltage. Due to the auto change over scheme bus coupler will automatically close after incomer is tripped (only condition is lock out relay of incomer 2 has not operated i.e. no fault at incomer 2). 

Now we have cleared the fault and want to bring back incomer 2 into circuit, with out interruption of the power supply to the loads. So we will use momentary Paralleling. Our Trip Selector switch shall be at bus coupler, and incomer 2 shall be closed. Bus coupler will automatically open.

So this how momentary Paralleling works and applied. 

Hope you have enjoyed the article. In the second part of the article we will be discussing about the control schematic of momentary Paralleling.

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