Alcoa World Alumina L.L.C. is one of the world’s largest producers of metallurgical grade alumina, the raw material for the aluminum smelting process. The Point Comfort Operations is Alcoa’s only ...

video: Business and industry love squirrel cage induction motors for high speed applications. Power grid Managers detest them, because their power factors under low loads can make a grid unstable. But ...

How often are homeowners approached by a salesperson at the doorstep selling a device that can go in a wall and supposedly save energy or reduce the monthly electricity bill substantially? The ...

Excessive use of electricity and poor efficiencies are no longer acceptable. Eliminating poor power factor will result in increasing electrical efficiencies and will reduce the overall use of ...

Power-electronics design involves a multiplicity of tradeoffs that can be guided by criteria that are useful in assessing how close a design is to optimum. This article surveys some common guiding ...