Electrical and Current Signature Analysis in Standards a 2022 update

On December 1, 2022 I received my usual daily IEEE standards updates for voting which included IEEE P1017.4/D1, “Draft Recommended Practice for Testing and Rating of Electrical Submersible Polyphase Induction Motors.”  This would be the complete new draft of such a standard developed by the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committees of the IEEE Industry Applications…

Energy Savings through the Application of Neutral Harmonic Filter: A Case Study

It is established that neutral and ground harmonic content will load transformers and systems. Prior work has been limited as to the direct relationship of this additional loading on power consumption for a facility. Over the past 24 months applied research has been performed on the measured impact of neutral and ground harmonics and energy…

EMPATH Continuous Monitoring Special Applications for Energy Analysis

The EMPATH™ family of Electrical Signature and Motor Current Signature Analysis (ESA/MCSA) systems go well beyond analyzing electric motors, generators and wind turbines.  It provides prognostic and time to failure estimation (TTFE) capabilities for AC/DC electric motors, synchronous machines, servo motors, machine tools, generators – including utility scale, and transformers.  Not only will it identify…