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Journal Article
- Title
- The Adelaide Electric Supply Company's system
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 9, no. 1, Jan 1937, pp. 24-32
- Description
This paper, No. 582, which originated in the Adelaide Division of the Institution, will be presented before the Engineering Conference to be held in Adelaide in March, 1937. The author, Frederick William Herbert Wheadon MIEAust, is the Managing Director of the Adelaide Electric Supply Co., Ltd.
- Abstract
This paper deals generally with a description of the Adelaide Electric Supply Company's generating and distributing system. It touches on the early history of the undertaking, and the changes which have taken place followmg the transference of the company's power house in the city to one established on a waterside site at Osborne, approximately 16 miles from the centre of distributlon. It also gives an account of some particular developments arising out of unusual local conditions. References are made to expenmental work carried out to increase the steaming capacity of boilers, also to the installation of a 1,500 kW quick-starting, turbo-generator house set. A description is also given of a distribution lay-out with a direct transformer ratio of 33,000/400 volts omitting any intermediate voltage. The method of carrying out live line maintenance on 33 kV overhead lines by means of an insulated truck is also described. There are also included some notes on present-day economic loading of overhead and underground cables, and on the effect of the adoption of statlc condensers installed on consumers' premises. A description is given of the company's recently introduced cooker and water heater hiring scheme.
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- Wheadon, F. W. H.; Just, J. S.; Harvey, R. M.; Crawford, J. M.; Carter, H. G.; Goodman, C. W.; Fremlin, K., 'The Adelaide Electric Supply Company's system (Discussions and communications)', Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 9 (9) (1937), 355-357. Details