Demand Factor-Diversity Factor-Utilization Factor-Load Factor
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(1) Demand factor
Demand Factor = Maximum demand of a system / Total connected
load on the system
Demand factor is always less than one.
Example: if a residence having 6000W equipment connected has a
maximum demand of 300W,Than demand factor = 6000W / 3300W =
55%.
The lower the demand factor, the less system capacity required to
serve the connected load.
Feeder-circuit conductors should have an ampere sufficient to carry the
load; the ampere of the feeder-circuit need not always be equal to the
total of all loads on all branch-circuits connected to it.
Remember that the demand factor permits a feeder-circuit ampere to be
less than 100% of the sum of all branch-circuit loads connected to the
feeder.
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each.
Lathe=1No, 10 Hp, Air Compressor=1 No, 20 Hp, Fire Pump=1 No, 15
Hp.
After questioning the customer about the various loads, the information is
further deciphered as follows:
1. The shop lights are on only during the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
2. The receptacle outlets are in the office only, and will have computers
and other small loads plugged into them.
3. The lathe is fully loaded for 5 minutes periods. The rest of the time
is setup time. This procedure repeats every 15 minutes.
4. The air compressor supplies air to air tools and cycles off and on
about half the time.
5. The fire pump only runs for 30 minutes when tested which is once a
month after hours.
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Calculation:
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(2) Diversity factor / simultaneity factor (Ks)
Diversity Factor = Sum of Individual Max. Demand. / Max. Demand
on Power Station.
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diversity is then 20/25 or 0.8. This results from the timing differences
between the individual heating/cooling, appliance usages in the individual
customers.
As supply availability decreases, the diversity factor will tend to increase
toward 1.00. This can be demonstrated when restoring service after
outages (called “cold starts”) as the system initial surge can be much
greater than the historical peak loads.
Example-II: A sub-station has three outgoing feeders:
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point. To illustrate:
1. The building at these co-ordinates is fitted with a 100A main supply fuse.
2. The distribution board has 2no. 6A breakers, 1no. 20A breaker and 5no.
32A breakers, a total, potentially, of 192A.
Not all these rated loads are turned on at once. If they were, then the
100A supply fuse would rupture, as it cannot pass 192A. So the diversity
factor of the distribution board can be said to be 192A/100A, or 1.92, or
52%.
Many designers prefer to use unity as the diversity factor in calculations
for planning conservatism because of plant load growth uncertainties.
Local experience can justify using a diversity factor larger than unity, and
smaller service entrance conductors and transformer requirements chosen
accordingly.
The diversity factor for all other installations will be different, and would be
based upon a local evaluation of the loads to be applied at different
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moments in time. Assuming it to be 1.0 may, on some occasions, result in
a supply feeder and equipment rating that is rather larger than the local
installation warrants, and an over-investment in cable and equipment to
handle the rated load current. It is better to evaluate the pattern of usage
of the loads and calculate an acceptable diversity factor for each particular
case.
In the case of the example given above, achieving a diversity of 1.0 or
100% would require well over twice the cross-sectional area of copper
cable to be installed in a deep trench underneath a field, the rebuild of a
feeder cabinet to larger dimensions, more substantial overhead supply
cables for a distance exceeding 2km northwards and a different tariff,
where one pays rather more for a kWh than at present. The investment
required to achieve 1.0 simply isn’t justifiable in this particular case.
Diversity factor is mostly used for distribution feeder size and transformer
as well as to determine the maximum peak load and diversity factor is
always based on knowing the process. You have to understand what will
be on or off at a given time for different buildings and this will size the
feeder. Note for typical buildings diversity factor is always one. You have
to estimate or have a data records to create 24 hours load graph and you
can determine the maximum demand load for node then you can easily
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Diversity Factors
Elements of System
General Large
Residential Commercial
Power Industrial
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Between individual users 2.00 1.46 1.45
Between transformers 1.30 1.30 1.35 1.05
Between feeders 1.15 1.15 1.15 1.05
Between substations 1.10 1.10 1.10 1.10
From users to
2.00 1.46 1.44
transformers
From users to feeder 2.60 1.90 1.95 1.15
From users to substation 3.00 2.18 2.24 1.32
From users to generating
3.29 2.40 2.46 1.45
station
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Heating and air conditioning 0.8
Socket-outlets 0.7
Lifts and catering hoist
For the most powerful motor 1
For the second most powerful motor 0.75
For all motors 0.8
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Example: 5 storey apartment building with 25 consumers, each having 6
kVA of installed load.
The total installed load for the building is: 36 + 24 + 30 + 36 + 24 = 150
kVA
The apparent-power supply required for the building is: 150 x 0.46 = 69
kVA
It is a matter of common experience that the simultaneous operation of all
installed loads of a given installation never occurs in practice, i.e. there is
always some degree of diversity and this fact is taken into account for
estimating purposes by the use of a simultaneity factor / Diversity Factor
(ks).
The Diversity factor ks is applied to each group of loads (e.g. being
supplied from a distribution or sub-distribution board). The determination
of these factors is the responsibility of the designer, since it requires a
detailed knowledge of the installation and the conditions in which the
individual circuits are to be exploited. For this reason, it is not possible to
give precise values for general application.
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Diversity factors are used by utilities for distribution transformer sizing and
load predictions.
Demand factors are more conservative and are used by NEC for service
and feeder sizing.
Demand factors and diversity factors are used in design.
For example, the sum of the connected loads supplied by a feeder is
multiplied by the demand factor to determine the load for which the feeder
must be sized. This load is termed the maximum demand of the feeder.
The sum of the maximum demand loads for a number of sub feeders
divided by the diversity factor for the sub feeders will give the maximum
demand load to be supplied by the feeder from which the sub feeders are
derived.
Example-1: Suppose We have four individual feeder-circuits with
connected loads of 250 kVA, 200 kVA, 150 kVA and 400 kVA and demand
factors of 90%, 80%, 75% and 85% respectively.Use a diversity factor of
1.5.
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Calculating demand for feeder-circuits
250 kVA x 90% = 225 kVA
200 kVA x 80% = 160 kVA
150 kVA x 75% = 112.5 kVA
400 kVA x 85% = 340 kVA
837.5 kVA
The sum of the individual demands is equal to 837.5 kVA.
If the main feeder-circuit were sized at unity diversity: kVA = 837.5
kVA ÷ 1.00 = 837.5 kVA.
The main feeder-circuit would have to be supplied by an 850 kVA
transformer.
However, using the diversity factor of 1.5, the kVA = 837.5 kVA ÷ 1.5
= 558 kVA for the main feeder.
For diversity factor of 1.5, a 600 kVA transformer could be used.
Example-2: A conveyor belt made up of six sections, each driven by
a 2 kW motor. As material is transported along this belt, it is first
carried by section 1, and then each section in succession until the
final section is reached. In this simple example only one section of
conveyor is carrying material at any point in time. Therefore five
motors are only handling no-load mechanical losses (say .1 kW)
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keeping the belts moving whilst one motor is handling the load (say 1
kW). The demand presented by each motor when it is carrying its
load is 1 kW, the sum of the demand loads is 6 kW but the maximum
load presented by the system at any time is only 1.5 kW.
Diversity factor =Sum of Individual Max. Demand / Max. Demand = 6
Kw / 1.5 Kw =4.
Demand Factor = Maximum demand / Total connected load = 1.5 Kw
/ 12 Kw = 0.125.
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It is used for determining the overall cost per unit generated. Higher
the load factor, lesser will be the cost per unit.
Load Factor = Load that a piece of equipment actually draws / Load it
could draw (full load).
Example: Motor of 20 hp drives a constant 15 hp load whenever it is on.
The motor load factor is then 15/20 = 75%.
Load factor is term that does not appear on your utility bill, but does affect
electricity costs. Load factor indicates how efficiently the customer is using
peak demand.
Load Factor = ( energy (kWh per month) ) / ( peak demand (kW) x
hours/month )
A high load factor means power usage is relatively constant. Low load
factor shows that occasionally a high demand is set. To service that peak,
capacity is sitting idle for long periods, thereby imposing higher costs on
the system. Electrical rates are designed so that customers with high load
factor are charged less overall per kWh.
For Example
Customer A – High Load Factor
82% load factor = (3000 kWh per month x 100%) / 5 kW x 730
hours/month.
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year. The hours of operation would then be 2000 hours, and the motor
Utilization factor for a base of 8760 hours per year would be 2000/8760 =
22.83%. With a base of 2000 hours per year, the motor Utilization factor
would be 100%. The bottom line is that the use factor is applied to get the
correct number of hours that the motor is in use.
Maximum demand
Maximum demand (often referred to as MD) is the largest current normally
carried by circuits, switches and protective devices. It does not include the
levels of current flowing under overload or short circuit conditions.
Assessment of maximum demand is sometimes straightforward. For
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1. Control gear losses result in additional current,
2. the power factor is usually less than unity so current is greater, and
3. Chokes and other control gear usually distort the waveform of the current
so that it contains harmonics which are additional to the fundamental
supply current.
So long as the power factor of a discharge lighting circuit is not less than
0.85, the current demand for the circuit can be calculated from:
current (A) = (lamp power (W) x 1.8) / supply voltage (V)
For example, the steady state current demand of a 240 V circuit supplying
ten 65 W fluorescent lamps would be: I = 10X65X1.8A / 240 = 4.88A
Switches for circuits feeding discharge lamps must be rated at twice the
current they are required to carry, unless they have been specially
constructed to withstand the severe arcing resulting from the switching of
such inductive and capacitive loads.
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Forgings 0.50 0.35 0.17
Cold Storage
a) Working Season 0.60 0.65 0.39
b) Non-Working 0.25 0.15 0.04
Season
Rice Sheller’s
a) Working Season 0.70 0.80 0.56
b) Non-Working 0.05 0.30 0.01
Season
Ice Candy Units
a) Working Season 0.50 0.65 0.32
b) Non-Working 0.50 0.10 0.05
Season
Ice Factories
a) Working Season 0.80 0.65 0.52
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Mills
Plastic 0.60 0.25 0.11
Soap 0.50 0.25 0.12
Rubber (Foot 0.45 0.35 0.16
Wear)
Distilleries 0.35 0.50 0.17
Chemical Industry 0.40 0.50 0.20
Gas Plant Industry 0.70 0.50 0.35
Pain and Colour 0.50 0.40 0.20
Factory
Sugar 0.30 0.45 0.13
Paper 0.50 0.80 0.40
Flour Mills(Single 0.80 0.25 0.20
Shift)
Atta Chakies 0.50 0.25 0.12
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Colleges and 0.50 0.20 0.10
Schools
Hotels and 0.75 0.40 0.30
Restaurants
Marriage Palaces 1.00 0.25 0.25
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Applied instruction building 35-65 24-28
Chemistry and Toxicology 70-80 22-28
Laboratory
Materials Laboratory 30-35 27-32
Physics Laboratory 70-80 22-28
Electrical and electronics 20-30 3-7
systems laboratory
Cold storage warehouse 70-75 20-25
General warehouse 75-80 23-28
Controlled humidity 60-65 33-38
warehouse
Hazardous/flammable 75-80 20-25
storehouse
Disposal, salvage, scrap 35-40 25-20
building
Hospital 38-42 45-50
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K-6 schools 75-80 10-15
7-12 schools 65-70 12-17
Churches 65-70 5-25
Post Office 75-80 20-25
Retail store 65-70 25-32
Bank 75-80 20-25
Supermarket 55-60 25-30
Restaurant 45-75 15-25
Auto repair shop 40-60 15-20
Hobby shop, art/crafts 30-40 25-30
Bowling alley 70-75 10-15
Gymnasium 70-75 20-45
Skating rink 70-75 10-15
Indoor swimming pool 55-60 25-50
Theater 45-55 8-13
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