Date: Thursday, Aug 21, 2014

Time: 6PM to 7:30PM

Speaker: Tom Blair, IEEE Senior Member

Location: Big Bend Power Station

13031 Wyandotte Road, Apollo Beach, FL 33572

Space is limited to 35 attendees.

Cost: Free

 Reservation is required, Please Contact Shaun Cross @ 813-228-1111, ext. 48306  or email: sfcross@tecoenergy.com 

This is our first joint meeting between ISA and IEEE. Our presenter will be Tom Blair with Tampa Electric Company. We will cover variable speed drive technology. In this meeting we will cover basic variable speed drive theory and applications. We will cover topics of constant torque and variable torque applications and energy saving applications. We will present several existing low and medium voltage variable speed applications and discuss lessons learned from each installation. There will be a question and answer session where attendees can bring their application questions and we can discuss those questions as a group.

Thomas H. Blair graduated from the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL in 1991 with a BSEE degree and in 2001 with a MSEE degree. He is a senior member of the IEEE. He has over 25 years of industrial and utility experience. He is currently a Fellow Engineer at Tampa Electric Company and he is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Florida. Thomas has worked as an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida and instructed courses in Electric Machine and Design & Energy Production Systems.