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Seminar Announcement
These events are organized by various sub-sets of the IEEE Toronto Section.
The contact person listed below is the volunteer who has arranged this event.
Please use the e-mail link provided if you have any questions, suggestions,
or concerns.
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Arcing Ground Faults and Arc Flash Hazards
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| Speaker
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Ajit Bapat
Vice President,Technology
IPC Resistors Inc.
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004, at 7:00 p.m.
(refreshments at 6:30 p.m.)
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| Location
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Centre for Computing and Engineering, Room ENG LG02
Ryerson University
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parking map
245 Church Street, Toronto
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| Organizer
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Industry Applications Chapter
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| Contact
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Vince Scaini, Chapter Chair, E-mail: vince.scaini@satcon.com
Everyone welcome...
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| Abstract
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Review of nature of arcing ground faults in electrical distribution
systems and fire hazard. Various methods of System Grounding in Low and
Medium Voltage systems and their characteristics, Considerations of
protection against arcing ground faults, Arc flash hazard due to
electrical work, code requirements in CEC, NEC, NFPA and OSHA, for
equipment and work place safety.
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| Biography
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Ajit Bapat, Vice President,Technology for IPC Resistors Inc. in Canada,
is well known in the electrical distribution field having served over 35
years in the industry. His expertise in the art and science of ground
fault protection is acknowledged in North America. He holds Master's
Degrees in Business Administration and Electrical Engineering
specializing in Power Systems and Power System Protection and has
particular interest in ground fault protection, digital metering
systems, microprocessor based integrated systems for protection metering
monitoring and control of power distribution systems. He is a member of
IEEE and Industry Application Society and has been Chair of Two IAS
Annual Conferences held in Toronto. He has also served as Chair of the
Toronto section and the Central Canada Council.
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