A. C. Monteith

Progress Report on Tidd 500-Kv Test Project of the American Gas and Electric Company---Corona, Radio Influence, and Other Factors

The field test project for studying corona, radio influence, and other technical features of electric power transmission in the extra-high-voltage range now has been in progress on The Ohio Power Company system of the American Gas and Electric Company at Brilliant, Ohio, for over two years. This paper is a progress report of this activity. It presents problems that are unique in the study of corona, particularly the effects of the conductor surface and weather upon the corona loss. It emphasizes the importance of foul weather in determining the average loss for use in evaluating the economic aspects of corona loss. Extensive tests also have been made of the effects of corona upon radio communication services. Radio influence is probably the factor litmiting the choice of a satisfactory conductor for extra-high voltages.

Recovery-voltage characteristics of typical transmission systems and relation to protector-tube application

THE SUCCESSFUL operation of an are-interrupting device requires that the insulation recovery-voltage characteristics of the device be higher than the recovery-voltage characteristics of the system. A broad understanding of the recovery-voltage problem from the application point of view, requires a knowledge of the effects caused by the range of systems, by the different types of faults and the different fault conditions encountered in practice. With this object in mind an investigation was undertaken to provide a general picture of the recovery-voltage characteristics of transmission systems.

Power System Governing -- the Problem

Discussion and authors closure of paper 41–68 by J. J. Dougherty, A. P. Hayward, A. C. Monteith, and S. B. Griscom, presented at the AIEE winter convention, Philadelphia, Pa., January 27–31, 1941, and published in AIEE TRANSACTIONS, 1941, pages 547–58.

Report on tidd 500-kv test project

DURING the past two years a great deal of information of value on the technical features of high-voltage line design has been obtained from the field research which is being carried out by the American Gas and Electric Service Corporation in co-operation with eight manufacturers of high-voltage equipment, which was fully described in a symposium of seven technical papers presented before the AIEE.1–7 The objectives and the test facilities used for carrying on the field test work were covered in considerable detail in that series of technical papers.

1962 Edison medalist

“For meritorious achievement in engineering, education, management, and development of young engineers.”

Career of the medalist

Each man who receives the Lamme Medal has already established a place for himself in engineering history by his contributions to our technical knowledge and, in turn, to society itself. The award of the Medal itself is, therefore, simply a means of honoring the individual by a formal recognition of the established fact.

Progress in power apparatus

IN ANY DISCUSSION of the progress in power apparatus, an impressive fact emerges: an increasing number of challenges is being presented to the industry to conceive systems and provide apparatus that will continue to give more power to the American worker, at lower and lower cost. This is the strength of American industry and the free enterprise system, to which the electrical industry has made a major contribution. The fact that the American worker now has more power available to him to do the dull or routine tasks is building his stature with respect to workers in similar jobs in other countries. The electrical industry has done much to provide this high standard of living.

Building our future

President Monteith believes Institute membership will double in the next 15 years. Present membership, future projects, and particularly a unity organization to raise the professional stature of all engineers are emphasized in his Winter Meeting address.

Coal and kilowatts

Even though one connected with electric equipment manufacturing is close to the problems that beset both the coal industry and the electrical utility, never the less, he is in a unique position to consider them in an objective way. It is from such a position of objectivity that President Monteith reviews the future of coal in the electrical utility industry.

Let's do more planning ahead

A calculated financial schedule, scientific membership opinion surveys, a study of Institute structure by experts, continued work towards a unity organization—these are but four of the over-all preplanned projects which are being undertaken to insure the future of the AIEE.