Electrical engineering is a field which deals with study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism.
Electrical engineering has subdivided into a wide range of subfields including electronics, digital computers, power engineering, telecommunications, control systems, radio-frequency engineering, signal processing, instrumentation, and microelectronics. The subject of electronic engineering is often treated as its own subfield but it intersects with all the other subfields, including the power electronics of power engineering.
Electrical engineers use their skills and knowledge to solve various electricity related technical problems.
ABSTRACT: Electrical energy consumption is increasing day by day but unfortunately lots of energy wasted when loads are remains in standby mode. Conventional sockets not have capability of automatic control. So here to overcome the problems of conventional socket we have developed a smart automated socket. Here we have implemented six innovative concepts in our project. 1. Manual and Automatic switch 2. Timer 3. Data Analysis 4. Wi-fi technology 5. Artificial Intelligence. 6. Mobile Application Automation is today’s fact, where things are being controlled automatically, usually the basic tasks of turning ON/OFF certain devices and beyond, either remotely or in close proximity Automation system uses Arduino device which is an open-source prototyping platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software Basically, a smart socket or a smart plug (outlet, strip) is aimed to measure electrical power consumption, to give access to power readings and to allow control (switch on/off) of loads in a remote (wireless) manner. Services supported by systems include energy management, load control, consumption profile monitoring, home automation, appliances faults diagnostics, etc. Basically this project focuses on the motive of energy efficiency and digital India. Here we have designed a low cost and flexible home control and environmental monitoring system. It employs an embedded micro – web server in Arduino Mega2560 microcontroller. We controls two switches here for demo purpose one is Mobile Charger and another one is for Laptop Charger. Electrical energy consumption is increasing day by day but unfortunately lots of energy wasted when loads are remains in standby mode. Conventional sockets not have capability of automatic control. So here to overcome the problems of conventional socket we have developed a smart automated socket. Here we have implemented six innovative concepts in our project. 1. Manual and Automatic switch 2. Timer 3. Data Analysis 4. Wi-fi technology 5. Artificial Intelligence. 6. Mobile Application Automation is today’s fact, where things are being controlled automatically, usually the basic tasks of turning ON/OFF certain devices and beyond, either remotely or in close proximity Automation system uses Arduino device which is an open-source prototyping platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software Basically, a smart socket or a smart plug (outlet, strip) is aimed to measure electrical power consumption, to give access to power readings and to allow control (switch on/off) of loads in a remote (wireless) manner. Services supported by systems include energy management, load control, consumption profile monitoring, home automation, appliances faults diagnostics, etc. Basically this project focuses on the motive of energy efficiency and digital India. Here we have designed a low cost and flexible home control and environmental monitoring system. It employs an embedded micro – web server in Arduino Mega2560 microcontroller. We controls two switches here for demo purpose one is Mobile Charger and another one is for Laptop Charger.(INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPER AVAILABLE)
ABSTRACT: The demand of electric power for house hold purpose, commercial purpose and industrial purpose increases day by day. The existing method of management of electrical power system is complex as they are generally interconnected with many operating machine units working together. If any of the machine in this interconnected system faces failure entire power system is affected hence careful monitoring and protection of these machines are necessary. Among the interconnected machine transformer which is a static machine which plays key role of stepping up or stepping down voltage levels in power systems based on electromagnetic induction principle. In the existing system monitoring of transformer is done using wired network accompanied with temporary test unit and involving man into action , here continuous monitoring is not possible all the time which may lead to malfunction or failure of power transformer. Transformers are the most important part of transmission and distribution system. Transformer suffers from various abnormalities which causes sudden shut down of transformer. Due to frequent power cut because of transformer fault residential areas suffer from serious problems. Our proposed system provides effective monitoring and protection of power transformer by measuring oil level, oil quality, temperature, tank leakage and operating voltage without involving human intervention. (INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE BASED PAPER AVAILABLE)
ABSTRACT: Today is the world of automation. When we are talking about automation, we must think about microcontroller. Microcontroller finds its application in each and every automation control like Remote controllers, Hand-held communication devices, automatic and semi-automatic washing machines, security system, telephone printing machines, automobiles, indicating and measuring instruments. The project described here being also a microcontroller based project, used for automatic phase detector. The use of microcontroller in this project is to store the data, process data and change data according to the user requirement. This is possible because microcontroller has CPU, memory, I/O ports, timers/counters, ADC/DAC, serial ports, interrupt logic, oscillator circuitry, and many more functional blocks on single chip. Hence it reduces the cost of hardware. Also there is no need to connect external RAM for memory storage. This is the most important feature of microcontroller. There are various types of microcontrollers available in market. The examples are Intel MCS-51, PIC family by microchip, ATMEL 89CXX, 89CXX51. The microcontroller used for this project is ATMEL-89C52. Now days, many times out of three phase one of the phase cutout and the circuit breaker trips at that time the MSEB operator has to operate it manually by turning on the contacts of circuit breaker contact and if a MSEB operator sleeps at the time of duty at that time the hooter shouts and gives us alert.(INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE BASED PAPER AVAILABLE)
ABSTRACT: Now days, there is a lot of requirement to control the appliances in an industry or in a home connected to the power grid when we are working with our PC. In these situations we need to go to the place where the power grid has been situated which is a time consuming process. The main aim of the present project is to provide a facility by which we can control all the appliances connected to the power grid like bulbs, fans, TV, fridge, and air cooler etc. from your PC or from your laptop at a distance of 10meters around the control board. The only thing is we need to connect a RF remote transmitter to your PC and a control board to the power control section of home. (INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE BASED PAPER AVAILBLE)
ABSTRACT: Security is the prime concern in our day to day life. Everyone needs to be securing as much as possible. The electric line man safety system is designed to control a circuit breaker by using a password for the safety of electric man. Critical electrical accidents to line men are on the rise during electric line repair due to lack of communication and co-ordination between the maintenance staff and electric substation staff. This proposed system provides a solution that ensures safety of maintenance staff, i.e., line man. The control to turn on or off the line will be maintained by the line man only because this system has an arrangement such that a password is required to operate the circuit breaker (on/off). The system is fully controlled by a microcontroller from AVR family. A matrix keypad is interfaced to the microcontroller to enter the password. The entered password is compared with the password generated. If the password entered is correct, only then the line can be turned ON/OFF. The basic idea behind this project is shown in the following figure.1. To repair a particular section of the electric supply line, the lineman wants to turn off the supply to that line. For this he first put a request to the system. Then the system responds to him using the LCD display to enter the password. Then the system generates a password and it will be send to the phone (the no of which is stored in the program).The password based circuit breaker can also be implemented in automatic door locking system for providing high security. And also can be implemented to control electronic appliances to save the power.(INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE BASED PAPER AVAILABLE)
ABSTRACT - The proposed work in this paper aims on the design and implementation model of electrical energy theft detection aspect in Sri Lanka. A high percentage of electricity income is lost due to powertheft and improper management. However a bulk of these losses are caused by electricity theft. The illegal usage of electricity must be solved by electronic means, without any human interaction.Thepurpose of this work is to provide an implementation methodology for electricity theft detection and controlling which allows violators to be detected at a remote location.This design integrates effective solutions for problems faced by Sri Lankan’s electricity distribution system such as power theft and transmission line fault. It includes microcontroller based embedded technology and wireless communication method to find out the electric theft and transmission line fault.Moreover collecting the meter readings for billing processes from all consumers is a difficult and time consuming task which requires a great number of labours.In the proposed method aGlobal System for Mobile communication (GSM)based technology is used to transmit the meter reading and detection alertautomatically to the authorized energy provider via an alert message which eliminates the various issues related to the meter reading and theft detection.(INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE BASED PAPER AVAILABLE)
ABSTRACT- This project is used for the purpose of power saving for industrial and commercial establishment. Power factor is defined as the ratio of real power to apparent power. Where real power is the time integral of the instantaneous power measured over a full period and the apparent power is simply the product of the RMS voltage and RMS current measured over the entire period. The time lag between the zero voltage pulse and zero current pulse duly generated by suitable operational amplifier circuits are fed to two interrupt pins of the microcontroller where the program takes over to actuate appropriate number of relays at its output for bringing shunt capacitors into the load circuit to get the power factor till it reaches 0.95. (INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPER AVAILABLE )
ABSTRACT- This project is designed to automatically supply continuous power to a load through one of the four sources of supply that are: solar, mains, thermal, and wind when any one of them is unavailable. The four switches represent the four causes. The switches are connected to an 8051 microcontroller of which they provide input signals. Whenever a switch is pressed, it shows the absence of that particular reference. A relay driver is used that receives microcontroller generated output and switches that specific relay to provide continuous power supply. A lamp or bulb was used as a load for demonstration purpose which draws power from main. When the primary fails to supply power, automatically next available source was used like thermal. If thermal fails then the next one is used and so on. An LCD is used to show which power supply is on.(INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE BASED PAPER AVAILABLE)
Every year ,we find more and more road accidents due to increased traffic on the roads, and if you see the statistics ,you will find that the causalities are more every year than that of 1970 Indo -Pak war. Experts says, increased motorist population, long working hours, stressful life, are the major cause. The factors are beyond one’s control , but if we could alert the driver on the highway,could save the many presicious lives.
Now days, many times out of three phase one of the phase cutout and the circuit breaker trips at that time the MSEB operator has to operate it manually by turning on the contacts of circuit breaker contact and if a MSEB operator sleeps at the time of duty at that time the hooter shouts and gives us alert.
A conveyor system is a common piece of mechanical handling equipment that moves materials from one location to another. Conveyors are especially useful in applications involving the transportation of heavy or bulky materials. Conveyor systems allow quick and efficient transportation for a wide variety of materials, which make them very popular in the material handling and packaging industries. Many kinds of conveying systems are available, and are used according to the various needs of different industries. There are chain conveyors (floor and overhead) as well. Chain conveyors consist of enclosed tracks, I-Beam, towline, power & free, and hand pushed trolleys.
Ideal gas sensor is used to detect the presence of a dangerous LPG leak in your car or in a service station, storage tank environment. This unit can be easily incorporated into an alarm unit, to sound an alarm or give a visual indication of the LPG concentration. The sensor has excellent sensitivity combined with a quick response time. The sensor can also sense is-butane, propane, LNG and cigarette smoke. If the LPG sensor senses any gas leakage from storage the output of this sensor goes low. This low signal is monitored by the microcontroller and it will identify the gas leakage. Now the microcontroller is turn on Buzzer. After few milliseconds delay, it also turn on exhaust fan for throwing gas out and continue send messages as ‘GAS LEAKAGE’ to a mobile no, written in c-code.
Inverters and routers are commonly found in most households applications in today’s life. However this work we discuss the implementation of a IOT enabled smart inverter i.e. a solar charged inverter that uses Wi-Fi technology to engage a two way communication with the user, and informing the user of both, the battery voltage of the inverter as well as utilization time of the loads which the user chooses to run. Moreover, the wireless control of loads is implemented to ease efficient utilization of energy also increase human comfort. This work uses the ARDUINO UNO microcontroller board based on the ATmega328P along with Node MCU which runs on theESP8266 Wi-Fi module to implement the aforementioned objectives.(INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PAPER AVAILABLE)
Solar energy is a renewable form of energy and is a very efficient method of saving electricity.it does the same functioning as the electricity but the difference is that the major source is solar energy in which electricity is kept aside. Since electricity should be preserved this project is the best way to let the world know the new and the better way to save electricity along with the continuation of all the project and working of appliances with the help of the renewable source that is the solar energy. The project is an outcome of a specially designed and fabricated hybrid solar inverter. The inverter will charge the batteries with the solar and conventional power source according to the availability. Although the paper mainly will concentrate on charging through Solar PV. The inverter is designed accordingly to the specifications of the Solar PV panel used in the hardware. During the design of the inverter many existing systems were studied. Technical assistance was taken from various industrial experts working in the field of inverter design and fabrication. The two main components of the designed hardware is the hybrid inverter and another one is the PV panel placed outdoor.
This project explains control of three floor elevator using PLC. With the rising life standards and attention to human and with tremendous development in architectural engineering for multi storage building, the installation of elevators becomes an integral part of the infrastructure for the vertical movement. So, the control system is essential for smooth and safe operation of the elevator. Hence for more efficient performance and maintenance, more importance is given to the design of an elevator control system. In this case one can make the better use of PLC for controlling of elevator which is beneficial due to its flexibility, operational speed, reliability, ease of programming, security, and it is easy in implementing changes and correcting errors. Since output results must be produced in response to input condition within a given period of time, it is an example of a real time system. Ladder diagram programming is selected as it is easy to program the PLC.
The AT89S52 is a low-power, high-performance CMOS 8-bit microcontroller with 8K bytes of in-system programmable Flash memory. The device is manufactured using Atmel’s high-density nonvolatile memory technology and is compatible with the industry-standard 80C51 instruction set and pinout. The on-chip Flash allows the program memory to be reprogrammed in-system or by a conventional nonvolatile memory programmer. By combining a versatile 8-bit CPU with in-system programmable Flash on a monolithic chip, the Atmel AT89S52 is a powerful microcontroller which provides a highly-flexible and cost-effective solution to many embedded control applications. The AT89S52 provides the following standard features: 8K bytes of Flash, 256 bytes of RAM, 32 I/O lines, Watchdog timer, two data pointers, three 16-bit timer/counters, a six-vector two-level interrupt architecture, a full duplex serial port, on-chip oscillator, and clock circuitry. In addition, the AT89S52 is designed with static logic for operation down to zero frequency and supports two software selectable power saving modes. The Idle Mode stops the CPU while allowing the RAM, timer/counters, serial port, and interrupt system to continue functioning. The Power-down mode saves the RAM contents but freezes the oscillator, disabling all other chip functions until the next interrupt or hardware reset.
The project is to determine the location of fault in underground cable lines[1] from the source station to exact location of fault in any units, here in kilometres. Whenever a fault occurs in the underground cable line for some reason, the repairing process relating to that faulted cable becomes difficult owing to lack of proper system for tracking the exact fault location and the type of fault occurred in the cable. For this, a system has to be developed to find the exact location of the fault in the distribution line system for all the three phases R, Y & B for different type of situations of faults. Here in this paper single line to ground, double line to ground & three phase faults have been considered.Therefore, the basic concept of Ohm’s law[2]is found suitable in principle to develop a fault location tracking system. Based on the Ohm’s Law, it is found that the resistance of the cable is proportional to its length under constant conditions of temperature and the cross section area and therefore if a low DC voltage is applied at the feeder end through a series of resistor in cable lines, the current would vary depending upon the location of fault in the cable. Here a system is developed which consists of a microcontroller, LCD display, Fault Sensing Circuit Module, IoT Wi-Fi Module and proper power supply arrangement with regulated power output.Hence, if there is a short circuit in the form of line to
The project is to determine the location of fault in underground cable lines[1] from the source station to exact location of fault in any units, here in kilometres. Whenever a fault occurs in the underground cable line for some reason, the repairing process relating to that faulted cable becomes difficult owing to lack of proper system for tracking the exact fault location and the type of fault occurred in the cable. For this, a system has to be developed to find the exact location of the fault in the distribution line system for all the three phases R, Y & B for different type of situations of faults. Here in this paper single line to ground, double line to ground & three phase faults have been considered.Therefore, the basic concept of Ohm’s law[2]is found suitable in principle to develop a fault location tracking system. Based on the Ohm’s Law, it is found that the resistance of the cable is proportional to its length under constant conditions of temperature and the cross section area and therefore if a low DC voltage is applied at the feeder end through a series of resistor in cable lines, the current would vary depending upon the location of fault in the cable. Here a system is developed which consists of a microcontroller, LCD display, Fault Sensing Circuit Module, IoT Wi-Fi Module and proper power supply arrangement with regulated power output.Hence, if there is a short circuit in the form of line to