Identifier: designofhydroele00burn (find matches)
Title: The design of a hydro-electric plant at Ottawa, Illinois
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Burnett, William
Subjects: Hydroelectric power plants Theses
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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34. Electrical, The load curves show that the load vnrie3 for different times in the3/ear. In the month of December there is a very much greater demand than theis in thr? month of June. The peak load in December is about ?7,000 kilo-watts and this vrill b^ the quanity that is to decid^^ the capacity of theplant. In June the peak load calls for 23,000 kiro-vratts. This \frillthen necessitate that some of the units remain idle durinp; the summermonths. Hov/ever this is more economical then it v?-ould be to install Anamxiliary plant for the winter overload. For practically 9 hours in the day during the v,inter months thereis a load of 15,000 K.7. For hours durinp; the day there is apnroximately10,000 K.V/. being used and for the remaining 9 hours the full capacityof the station is needed. From the above figures it ;voi;ld seem that unitsof 5000 K.^V. capacity would be best. Two units then could carry the 10,000K.W. load and the third unit could be pa^all^d for the 15,000 K.W. load.During

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