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Magat Dam Spillway
The spillway of the Magat Dam is located across the boundary of Ifugao and Ramon, Isabela Provinces in the Philippines. [Read the full entry...]
The FOREX Brokers Solution to the Anti-Hedging Regulation of the NFA
I thought that the Hedging technique of the Forex traders will come to an end when the National Futures Association of the US released a new regulatory rule banning the use of hedging through the introduction of “First In, First Out (FIFO) basis”. [Read the full entry...]
CDR King still has the Cheapest Laptop Sleeves and other Gadget Accessories in the City
Just recently found out that most laptop shops in Metro Manila malls have been running out of stocks of sleeves for small netbook computers, particularly for my 10 inches HP mini 1109, probably due to strong demand or few stocks or both. [Read the full entry...]
Substation/Switchyard Bus and Breaker Arrangement/Configuration Reliability, Flexibility and Cost Comparison
Single Bus This arrangement involves one main bus with all circuits connected directly to the bus. The reliability of this type of arrangement is very low. The maintenance of the bus and breakers would require the outage of the total system and the line. [Read the full entry...]
What is the safe amount of current (electricity) that can flow into the human body?
According to IEEE Std 1246™-2002; [Read the full entry...]
Transformer Cooling Classes
Voltage and current transformation in a power transformer involves a significant quantity of electrical energy losses. Such losses are the losses in the core and copper winding which are dissipated into heat. [Read the full entry...]
Old School Mini-Projects:
Electrical Engineering
Optimal Allocation of Fixed and Switched Capacitors For Unbalanced Radial Distribution Feeders Using Artificial Intelligence-Based Approach - Application of AI-based Genetic Algorithm for the determination of the optimal allocation of capacitors for the minimization of energy and power losses on distribution systems. read more…
The Online Power Flow Simulation Tool. - This Online Power Flow Simulator is a free online based tool for Electrical Engineers and Students to assist the analysis of power flows in the power systems. It implements the Gauss Seidel iterative method of load flow calculations.
A Solution to Economic Dispatch Problem of MERALCO and NPC using Piece-wise Linear Programming Method. - This is just to demonstrate how a piece-wise linear programming method can solve this semi-hypothetical problem.
Computers and Internet
| 68000 Implementation of 32-Bit floating-Point Addition and Multiplication - A Motorola 68000 (68K) program that will determine the sum and the product of two 32-bit floating point numbers. read more… | Binary Tree Traversal - Performs the 3 binary tree traversals; inorder traversal, preorder traversal and postorder traversal, using non-recursive method (stacks and queues). read more… | Polynomial Calculator - The program performs the basic polynomial operations-addition; subtraction and differentiation. Download source code and executable file - read more… |

