enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. AC power - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power

    In the diagram, P is the active power, Q is the reactive power (in this case positive), S is the complex power and the length of S is the apparent power. Reactive power does not do any work, so it is represented as the imaginary axis of the vector diagram. Active power does do work, so it is the real axis. The unit for power is the watt (symbol ...

  3. Power factor - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_factor

    The presence of reactive power causes the real power to be less than the apparent power, and so, the electric load has a power factor of less than 1. A negative power factor (0 to −1) can result from returning active power to the source, such as in the case of a building fitted with solar panels when surplus power is fed back into the supply.

  4. Slack bus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slack_bus

    Slack bus – to balance the active and reactive power in the system. It is also known as the Reference Bus or the Swing Bus. The slack bus will serve as an angular reference for all other buses in the system, which is set to 0°. The voltage magnitude is also assumed to be 1 p.u. at the slack bus. The slack bus provides or absorbs active and ...

  5. Electric power - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power

    Definition. Electric power, like mechanical power, is the rate of doing work, measured in watts, and represented by the letter P. The term wattage is used colloquially to mean "electric power in watts". The electric power in watts produced by an electric current I consisting of a charge of Q coulombs every t seconds passing through an electric ...

  6. Power-flow study - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-flow_study

    In power engineering, the power-flow study, or load-flow study, is a numerical analysis of the flow of electric power in an interconnected system. A power-flow study usually uses simplified notations such as a one-line diagram and per-unit system, and focuses on various aspects of AC power parameters, such as voltages, voltage angles, real power and reactive power.

  7. Capability curve - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_curve

    Active power is on the horizontal axis, reactive power is on the vertical axis. Capability curve of an electrical generator describes the limits of the active (MW) and reactive power (MVAr) that the generator can provide. The curve represents a boundary of all operating points in the MW/MVAr plane; it is typically drawn with the real power on ...

  8. Electric power transmission - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission

    Two additional circuits are obscured by trees on the far right. The entire 6809 MW [ 1 ] nameplate generation capacity of the dam is accommodated by these six circuits. Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation.

  9. Alpha–beta transformation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha–beta_transformation

    The active and reactive powers computed in the Clarke's domain with the transformation shown above are not the same of those computed in the standard reference frame. This happens because is not unitary. In order to preserve the active and reactive powers one has, instead, to consider