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Design Considerations for Variable Frequency Drives
Date: Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Location: SRP Information Services Building (ISB), 1600 N Priest Dr, Tempe, AZ 85281
Speaker: Hugh Pace, Brown and Caldwell
Topic: "Design Considerations for Variable Frequency Drives"
Speed adjustment techniques have been used in transmitting mechanical power to machinery since the earliest use of powered machinery. Before electric motors were invented, mechanical speed changers were used to control the mechanical power provided by water wheels and steam engines. Today, various types of mechanical drives, hydraulic drives and electric drives compete with one another in the industrial drives market.
This topic is going to talk about methods and reason of how to handle the drives of today.
Speaker Bio:
Hugh Pace has over 30 years of experience in power distribution systems engineering, instrumentation and control systems design, and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system design for municipal water, wastewater, and industrial projects. Mr. Pace is registered as a power system engineer and a control system engineer. He has managed project design teams and supervised project construction, inspection, and startup. Mr. Pace provides quality control design reviews for electrical and instrumentation for BC’s water, wastewater, and reclaimed water projects and for plant designs performed by other Consulting Engineering firms. Mr. Pace participates in Construability Reviews and Value Engineering Workshops for WTP, WRF, WWTP, Lift Stations, and Potable Water Reservoir/Pumping Facilities.
