ABSTRACT The Asymmetrical Single - phase drive has an input power factor problem over its control range. With the race towards industrialisation, power networks in developing economies would face increasing power factor problems with extended application of these drives in industrial and traction systems. This project investigates the assertion that power factor of supply networks with multiple drives deteriorates with increased number of drives. The power factor problem is established analy...
Abstract This article proposes a conceptual framework that used mini-gird business models (MBMs) to rank electricity tariff plans. The framework combines intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS), Criteria Importance Through Inter-criteria Correlation (CRITIC), fuzzy axiomatic design (FAD) and Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). It considered when decision-makers specify or did not specify for MBM’s requirements. Also, this article considered uncertainty in decisi...
A distribution network connected to rural consumers is often quite weak due to the long distance. Hence, an increase in power demand over this network will result to power quality problems. The main cause of this unacceptable situation is the inability of the power system to meet the demand of reactive power. Inductive loads are the main cause of power quality problems and they are widely used in domestic and industrial sector, contributing to inefficient use of energy. In this paper, a react...
The evaluation of power flow in the distribution network has many techniques but there has been a very much interest in the traditionally known methods. These methods have enjoyed very wide acceptability and applicability. However, a comparative study of these techniques for the investigation of the load flow analysis for any of the Nigeria’s distribution systems is not adequately and proficiently documented. Thus, this inspired the adaptation of these techniques for the solution of a struc...
ABSTRACT In the developing nations that are located in the tropical region; there is a growing trend of fire incidence in buildings without adequate development of fire prevention and/or reduction protocol. Thus, this study addresses the growth and spread of fire in multi-storey buildings. The rooms are structured as cells in order to reduce the flame spread from a single fuel item, by heat release, to other neighbouring items or rooms (otherwise known as cells). The philosophy is to reduce ...
ABSTRACT Due to the increase in electricity demand, transmission sector has become overstressed since it can only be built at vast cost. In many developing economies, the network is highly susceptible to outages, collapse as well as partial or total failures, since the existing transmission capacity limit is often closely approached. To overcome this challenge better transmission expansion needs to be considered. This paper identified the implementation of transmission expansion with a numbe...
Abstract The grid fragility is a prevalent challenge in Nigeria electricity supply industry (NESI). It has resulted in recorded incidents of voltage collapse which have been on the increase in the recent time. Meanwhile to evaluate this events; thus the nexus between voltage collapse and network capacity was explored. To actualize this, the load flow analysis was carried out on the Nigeria-31 bus system with the aid of the Newton-Raphson iteration technique. Using the relevant parameters (su...
ABSTRACT Lightning phenomenon has resulted into several losses to both supply-side and load-side of the electricity infrastructure. Quite a handful of research has investigated strategies for its mitigation. This work is an application of the Fernandez-Diaz arrester model to the section of Eko Distribution network. The procedure involves simulation of the network in respect of the influence of the surges and surge arresters using MATLAB/SIMULINK. The study reveals that whenever lightning str...
ABSTRACT The poor investment in the network expansion programme has led to high level of grid fragility experienced in the power transmission system in Nigeria. Thus, any little disturbance often results in cascaded outage which is very hazardous to the power system equipment and operation. In order to overcome or ameliorate the influence of this challenge, the network engineers have to devise methodologies based on the dynamic stability analysis. This motivates the development of power syst...
The majority of the street lighting systems in Nigeria are predominantly composed of inefficient lighting fixtures powered either by the grid or diesel generators. Due to the epileptic nature of the grid and the fluctuations in diesel fuel pump prices, these methods for powering street lights are neither reliable nor sustainable. Use of energy-efficient lamps and photovoltaic (PV) panels has the tendency to reduce energy consumption and emissions. This study therefore presents a techno-econom...
Abstract The hotel industry consumes quite a sizeable quantum of energy. The industry stakeholders contend with energy related challenges; this includes high cost of service provision as a fall out of electricity price as well as poor energy policy. More so, this industry remains an unattractive subsector to both the energy players and succeeding governments (in Nigeria). Due to the great importance of this industry to commerce, tourism and hospitality; it is thus necessary to conduct its en...
Abstract In situations where maximum load demand exceeds power generation capacity, frequency would drop during cases of overload; and if appropriate under-frequency load curtailment scheme is not put in place, it could cause permanent turbine damage or affect the expected working operation of electric equipment. Various existing works on load curtailment in power systems have been done to great effect using meta-heuristic and classical control techniques. This paper seeks to comparatively a...
Abstract In situations where maximum load demand exceeds power generation capacity, frequency would drop during cases of overload; and if appropriate under-frequency load curtailment scheme is not put in place, it could cause permanent turbine damage or affect the expected working operation of electric equipment. Various existing works on load curtailment in power systems have been done to great effect using meta-heuristic and classical control techniques. This paper seeks to comparatively a...
Energy consumption is a central factor taken into consideration as far as management decisions are concerned in any firm and the same goes for the banking industry. More importantly is the extent to which firms consume energy efficiently. In the light of this, this study investigates the energy benchmarking of 50 commercial bank branches in Lagos. With the aid of questionnaires and by observation and consultation with the staff of the selected bank branches, data were collected on the energy ...
Nigeria has one of the lowest electricity consumption per capita in Africa and this is because the power grid capacity has not been able to meet the ever increasing demand for electricity. To remain in business, several business enterprises rely on captive generation of electricity; thus, the hospitality industry is not left out of this experience. Primarily, this study evaluates the energy consumption trend in the Nigerian hotel industry. The energy utilization is modeled in order to apprais...