Sentence examples for alternating current system from inspiring English sources

The battery installation will also assist with a different kind of grid stabilization: trying to keep the alternating current system correctly synchronized.

At earlier world's fairs, the key draws were often exotic products from distant lands and gee-whiz inventions like the Ferris wheel and the alternating current system of electricity.

In Stephentown, N.Y., near Albany, a Massachusetts company, Beacon Power, is building a bank of 200 one-ton flywheels that will store energy from the grid on a moment-to-moment basis to keep the alternating current system at a strict 60 cycles.

Grid operators around the country are looking for storage devices that can accept signals to draw power off the system or give it back on short notice — usually at four-second intervals — to balance supply and demand and keep the alternating current system properly synchronized.

The committee's preferred system was a 3,000 volt, three-phase alternating current system proposed by Hungarian electrical engineering company Ganz.

These relays monitor the alternating current system (which in India is 50 cycles, compared with 60 cycles in North America).

Charles Proteus Steinmetz, original name Karl August Rudolf Steinmetz (born April 9, 1865, Breslau, Prussia died Oct. 26, 1923, Schenectady, N.Y., U.S). German-born American electrical engineer whose ideas on alternating current systems helped inaugurate the electrical era in the United States.

April 9, 1865 Wrocław, Poland October 26 , 1923Schenectady, New York Charles Proteus Steinmetz, original name Karl August Rudolf Steinmetz (born April 9, 1865, Breslau, Prussia died Oct. 26, 1923, Schenectady, N.Y., U.S). German-born American electrical engineer whose ideas on alternating current systems helped inaugurate the electrical era in the United States.

Even the so-called "War of Currents" between Edison's direct current system and George Westinghouse's alternating current scheme mirrors the rivalry between Apple's Macintosh operating systems and Microsoft's DOS and Windows software.

When such flashovers occur, they may short-circuit the alternating current power system, and the resulting power arc may start a fire.

This chapter describes an alternating current susceptibility system, constructed for the diamond anvil cell, that facilitates the acquisition of reversible susceptibility hysteresis loops as a function of pressure.