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The fundamentals and practice of essentials of application engineering concept (1)

International Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development (7th : 2015 : Vancouver, B.C.)

Engineering is nothing more than planning based on knowledge instead of guesswork. In this sense everyone in design, service, maintenance, and technical sales work is his own engineer, every day. Paper presents Fundamentals of a new Concept of Five-Essentials-of-Application-Engineering (5EAE), enabling future consultants, designers, manufacturers, and end-users to consistently design and evaluate new projects or retrofits of power converters (PC) and/or industrial system drives (ISD). Paper will be focused at the component level of electro-mechanical PCs and ISDs. Another paper deals with 5EAE at the system level. Many times consultants, designers or end-users fail to “understand the conditions of motor use”. As a result, motors not performing efficiently or even failing inducing financial OPEX losses. One of the reasons could be that proposed 5EAE concept not being taught at tertiary education level. In motor case, proper application of 5EAE requires strong technical background complemented by broader knowledge in collateral fields. This is reflected by fundamentals largely presented in the paper. When selecting a motor for specific application the following 5EAE must be taken in consideration: 1) Matching the application conditions; 2) Matching the power supply conditions; 3) Matching the environmental conditions; 4) Matching the reliability conditions; and 5) Matching the business sustainability conditions. Use of 5EAE reflects a deep expertise in a single area, usually technical, complemented with a broad working knowledge of multiple areas of inquiry, establishing a professional as capable of interacting with various facets of the application. The objective of the 5EAE concept is to minimize power losses and environment impact, maximizing global efficiency and incorporating reliability indicators as a step forward in design methodology. Besides these, 5EAE produces several collateral benefits: A) An increased technical and economic performance of processes; B) The defusing of incipient energy and economic crisis; C) An improvement of environmental conditions; D) The creation of jobs in industries. The concept has already been successful applied in designing (manufacturing) various types of PCs and has created new basis–of-design for ISDs in various industries in South Africa. Proposed concept is an ideal method to prepare practicing engineering graduates for the global economy. This approach fosters individuals with a deep technical understanding coupled with broader knowledge in the fundamentals of engineering design, innovation, business, and leadership. Consequently, 5EAE can be used as model for improving a company’s corporate policies and/or utilities, government energy policies. Similarly, 5EAE concept could be applied at industrial systems and processes (IS&P) levels or extended to other fields of activities.

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2015-06-02

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/53687

Nesbit, S. & Froese, T. M. (Eds.) (2015). Proceedings of EESD15: The 7th Conference on Engineering Education for Sustainable Development, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. June 9-12.

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