A good and efficient generating system is essential to meet the growing demand for electricity. Stability is required in the generation process to work properly and optimally. One of which is by controlling the frequency in the turbine-generator of a power plant, for example PLTU (Electric Steam Power Plant). Turbine-generator is one of the important parts in generating industry that functions …
One of abnormal conditions that may happen when operating synchronous generator is overheating at armature winding. Therefore, this condition is needed to overcome to avoid further damage in the generator by designing and implementing smart relay based overheating protection. Temperature at armature winding is as an input of the smart relay where it was measured by using LM35DZ sensor. Magnetic…
Electrical energy is one of the most important and often used energy in life. To maintain the availability of electricity, it takes a power company to manage the electricity needs. One of the things that affect the reliability of the equipment is need to know the configuration of the electrical equipment protective device. As known that transmission line is very vulnerable to lightning strikes …
Electronic devices efficiency is highly considered nowadays. One of the reasons caused low efficiency is power dissipation. Conventional Boost Converter has low efficiency, but there are some potentional areas need to be improved. Synchronous Boost Converter is the improved method of Boost Converter to improve the Conventional Boost Converter efficiency. Design and simulation is supplied by 12V…
Oxygen in water is obtained from 2 processes ie photosynthesis by aquatic plants and aeration that is included in the diffusion process. Aerator is a tool that serves to produce oxygen through the diffusion process for the needs of living creatures in the water. Aerators themselves have several types of them; gravity aerator, surface aerator, diffusioner aerator, turbine aerator, and combinatio…
The turn-milling test has three methods in the process of working are orthogonal, tangential, and co-axial. In this methods turn-milling test produces a varied surface roughness. To optimize the surface roughness in this method orthogonal turn-milling then the variation of testing is done at the rotation velocity of workpiece and feeding velocity. The testing process of turn-milling machining i…
Solar energy is radiation of light and heat from the sun harnessed to generate electrical energy. Solar cell is one of the examples from solar energy usage and has been spreadly used by global society including application towards traffic light which is the focus in this study. Simply, Solar cell is converting light energy into electrical energy which commonly installed statically with a certai…
This research focus on the development of dynamometer type four profile-H plate for a measurement axial and tangential forces on Lathe Machine. The dynamometer consists of mechanical parts and electrical parts. Mechanical components are designed with maximum force 500 N. Dynamometer analyzed using autodesk inventor 2015 software. Dynamometer based strain gauge as strain sensor, HX 711 Module, A…
Biogas from palm oil mill effluent is one of renewable energy that can be used to reduce the use of fossil energy in meeting the electricity needs. At a biogas power plant (PLTBg), a gas engine is an important component which functions to convert the energy contained biogas into mechanical energy to drive the electric generator. Because of its important function, the performance of the gas engi…
The surface roughness of a machining process is a very important factor in the field of production that is one of the turn-milling process. Turn-milling is a combined machining process of turning and milling with complete tools (cutting) where workpieces and tools rotate together. The turn-milling process can be classified in orthogonal turn-milling, tangential turn-milling and co-axial turn-mi…
In each welding technology each has advantages in accordance with the placement of its implementation. One of the welding technologies is the SMAW (shield metal arc welding) has an advantage over the current and the welding angle can be varied, and the penetration width of the electrode fuses can be adjusted. This research uses SMAW welding machine with sliding adaptive vertical system design f…
One of the welding technology is SMAW (Shielded Metal Arc Welding) has its own advantages, such as, the current as the heat source used can be varied, easy to use in various welding positions, penetration and the electrode width of welding can be adjusted. In order for proper welding speed, this research uses SMAW welding machine with sliding adaptive vertical system that varies the flow and we…
Energy sustainability is the world's major attention at this time. Many attempts were made in order to save the continuity of the energy. One of them by using renewable energy sources and by improving the energy efficiency of the system is an important option for future energy sustainability. In biogas power plants exergy analysis is very important to be applied, with this analysis, we can know…
Environmental pollution as well as the amount of energy consumption is one of the biggest problems of air conditioning and refrigeration systems used today, so it needs technology that is environmentally friendly and energy efficient. Adsorption chiller is one of the technologies for air conditioning and refrigeration system that is energy efficient and environmentally friendly because the refr…
Adsorption cooling system double bed with silica gel as adsorbent and water as the adsorbate is expected to reduce the use of refrigerant in the vapor compression system that utilizes refrigerant CFC (hlorofluorocarbon) and HCFC (hydrochlorofluorocarbon) that could potentially damage the ozone layer and increase global warming. This study aims to increase the value of the COP and SCP adsorption…
In this research refers to the variation of the surface geometry design of the motorcycle disc brake pads. In this study analyzed is the stress that occurs on the surface of the disc brake pads. The results of the disc brake pads analysis in the study will be evaluated and compared with commercial brake pads products. The purpose of this study was to obtain the surface geometry of the disc brak…
Induction motor plays an important role in the industrial realm that serves as a driving parts such as the conveyor, lathes and others. Regarding to this important role, the early detection of induction motor damage becomes important for system operation, so that it could not stopped without scheduled. The types of damage that often occur in induction motor are mechanical unbalance, rotor damag…
One of the reasons for the poor quality of palm oil in Indonesia is because of the separation system of processing method is processed manually. In this research, the proposed solution to overcome the problem is by applying the automatic separation system by using microcontroller. The maturity of the fruit will be determined from the image that taken by a camera. The reading of the camera image…
Rotating machines that have been operating within a certain period of time there is frequent vibration. The vibration is usually caused by unbalance, misalignment, bearing defect, and others. Unbalance is ranked first cause of vibration, where more than 80% cases of vibration caused by unbalance. This condition causes the balancing process needs to be done. A commonly used method is vibration m…
The pipeline system leads an important role in ubiquitous feature of modern society and industrial which is used as one of the high integrity fluid transport function, but has a major problem such as leakage and blockage. Detection methods are typically performed using ultrasonic pressure and wave differences at a relatively high price. The research method used is detection by using sound signa…