Sentences with phrase «many kilovolts»

Because this customer had maximum demands of 260 kilovolt amperes (KVA) for firing up equipment, there is a demand charge based on 90 % of KVA rather than the total kilowatts actually consumed (KW).

The second approach being considered would place each pin in a cylindrical silicon tube that raises the pin up when the tube is filled with a conductive solution of calcium chloride and 8.75 kilovolts are applied.

Heyeck sees another way to make the power highways more flexible while sticking with good old AC, albeit at an extra-high 765 kilovolts.

Ultimately, Heyeck says, the interstate power networks are likely to blend the two technologies, favoring HVDC for the trunk lines that push power the longest distances and 765 - kilovolt AC where flexibility counts most.

So we lost a 345 - kilovolt line in northern Ohio.

«I was applying a few kilovolts, the system shorted out and the water exploded.»

They then moved the sample to one side and applied a much stronger pulse — 10 kilovolts — which has the opposite effect, flinging the atoms to a detector 20 centimeters away.

The Large Hadron Collider has suffered a power outage after the unfortunate critter chewed on a 66 kilovolt electrical transformer

The electrodes apply a potential of around 1.2 kilovolts per centimetre of skin.

CERN's Large Hadron Collider is in standby mode after a 66 - kilovolt / 18 - kilovolt electrical transformer suffered a short circuit April 29 at 5:30 a.m. Central European Time.

According to internal documents placed online, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN near Geneva has suffered a power outage after the critter chewed on a 66 - kilovolt electrical transformer.

If the Kanawha — Matt Funk line tripped out of service at full load, it could send a wave of power flowing to a parallel but smaller line rated at only 345 kilovolts.

The backbone would move power across the continent at the extreme high - voltage rating: 765 kilovolts, which would reduce typical system losses of 3 to 8 percent to around 1 percent.

The voltages required to activate dielectric elastomer actuators are relatively high — typically one to five kilovolts — so the devices can operate at a very low current (generally, high voltage means low current).

Once each piece of equipment is being monitored, the millions of electromechanical switches currently in use should be replaced with solid - state, power - electronic circuits, which themselves must be beefed up to handle the highest transmission voltages: 345 kilovolts and beyond.

New equipment includes two 300 kilovolt (kV) electron microscopes (EM) and a 950 megahertz (MHz) nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer alongside existing 120kV and 200kV EMs, and 500, 600 and 750 MHz NMR machines.

She and others have also proposed Colstrip explore less carbon - intensive ways to send power down the valuable twin, 500 - kilovolt transmission lines originating at the plant.

In the PDII method, a high voltage of several kilovolts is applied to a needle - shaped anode placed in atmospheric hydrogen to generate protons via the electrolytic disassociation of hydrogen.

But these prototypes are limited: Either they need an external power source to generate the many kilovolts required for the electrical discharge, or they need an external gas supply and regulation to sustain the plasma.

The flashlight's battery is far too small to create a plasma on its own, so the researchers use a common electronic device known as a DC booster to step up the voltage to 10 kilovolts.

«Each power conversion station is a combination of an inverter and a transformer that steps up the voltage roughly to 35 kilovolts, which goes to a PV combiner switch gear and then onto the substation and onto the grid connection.

It is measured in «volt - amperes» and often expressed in «kilovolt - amperes» (kVA) or «megavolt - amperes» (MVA).

There are also five 400 kilovolt (kV) substations, fifteen 220 / 110 - kV substations and 140 110 - kV substations.

Slated to commence in this year's third quarter, the scope of the Downer - GE ANZ consortium's work at the Boco Wind Farm includes construction of a 133 - kilovolt (kV) transmission line and substation; balance of plant, civil, and electrical infrastructure; erection and commissioning of the wind turbine generators.

Transmission lines are typically overhead wires at voltages of 110 to 765 kilovolts supported by towers.

Hungary has electricity high - voltage transmission lines of 750 kilovolts (kV), 400 kV, and 220 kV; these measure approximately 270, 1,730, and 1,200 kilometers in overall length, respectively.

NextEra spokesman Steve Stengel on Tuesday declined to disclose the cost of the 345 - kilovolt line, dubbed the «Texas Clean Energy Express.»

I could purchase a high voltage capacitor weighing less than five pounds and charge it to its 50 kilovolt rated voltage.

While many living near the potential route of American Transmission Company's 345 - kilovolt line remain steadfast against it, the project is drawing support from groups like Renew Wisconsin, which say the line will ease the delivery of wind power from Iowa and Minnesota into major population centers to the East.

Southern California Edison work crews are upgrading a 35 - mile span of transmission lines on public land — moving from a single 115 - kilovolt line to two 230 - kilovolt lines, according to the article.

Much of Southern California was cut off from power imported from Arizona when a 500 kilovolt transmission line tripped out of service.

Rocky Mountain Power and Idaho Power first proposed the 500 - kilovolt, 10 - segment Project in 2007 as a 10 - segment, 500 - kilovolt transmission line originating near Glenrock, Wyoming, and terminating at the Hemingway substation, 20 miles southwest of Boise, Idaho.