The beginning of a bachelor student in UniKL MICET (part 3)

HI THERE,

     Thanks for reading our article. Although it not much, but I hope you all can feel what we want to express. OK, for this topic entry, we will start with some of the simple question, Ready?

Please answer this:

• Is electrical energy is important for you?
• How often do you use the electrical appliance for 1 day?
• Finally, have you all been experience electrical disturbance?

     I confident you all can answer for those first 2 questions. But I also assume that you were provoked by the third question. Generally, power disruption can be happening to all over the places in Malaysia. Maybe some of you may be positive thinking by assuming that “Oh, maybe the TNB men just doing their common upgrade or maintenance”. Yeah, it is good that some of you were positive thinking, but what if this power disruption frequently happens in your place. This event can sure make your lappy fried their processor. For me, power disruption is SUCK!!!. Why? This is some of the info that I can give you:

• Every 80% appliance in our home was electrical power.
• Even your source of entertainment in your house is using electrical power.
• No air-cond or fan, that absolutely makes you hot and going to berserk.
• The worse part, can you see where the heck you are going in a pitch black situation?

     So, why this power out-age happens? There are many causes of power failures in an electricity network. Examples of these causes include faults at power stations, damage to electric transmission lines, substations or other parts of the distribution system, a short circuit, or the overloading of electricity mains. Power failures are particularly critical at sites where the environment and public safety are at risk. Institutions such as hospitals, sewage treatment plants, mines, etc., will usually have backup power sources, such as standby generators, which will automatically start up when electrical power is lost. Other critical systems, such as telecommunications, are also required to have emergency power. Telephone exchange rooms usually have arrays of lead-acid batteries for backup and also a socket for connecting a generator during extended periods of outage.

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