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Which Capacity Diesel Engine I Buy Kindly Suggest

03/28/2013 11:49 AM

i have to install a dg set 3 phase in a building.it got 16 nos flats each flat load is 22.5 kw single phase load in each flat . means 360 kw single phase load in total.wat capacity engine i have to buy.360 kw load is single phase & engine to buy is three phase.

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Re: which capacity diesel engine i buy kindly suggest

03/28/2013 11:55 AM

That means 5 loads are on two phases while the third phase carries 6. So simple arithmetic means with no diversity 22.5kW x 6 x 3 phases = 405kW, giving 10% capacity increase for another 2 flats. However, diversifying the loads will reduce this demand by a factor that the forum cannot see.

Alternatively, if all loads are on one phase, then a generator of 22.5kW x 15 x 3 = 1MW+ is needed to support it with no spare capacity, with two phases doing nothing. However, diversifying the load will reduce this demand by a factor the forum cannot see.

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Re: which capacity diesel engine i buy kindly suggest

03/28/2013 10:51 PM

but the current carrying in three phase supply is 2 times & in the case of single phase is 4.5 times.means 410 kw is 1815 amp for single phase. then from whom i can decide my diesel engine by kw or by amp.

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03/29/2013 6:10 PM

Well, the starting point is how the load is distributed across the phases, about which the forum knows nothing.

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03/30/2013 9:08 AM

How did you evaluate the load in each flat,did you consider diversity in each flat as well as overall diversity?.

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