High Voltage Power Equipment Engineering

Title: High Voltage Power Equipment Engineering
Author: Anthony J. Pansini and Kenneth D. Smalling
ISBN: 0878146423 / 9780878146420
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 171
Publisher: PennWell
Year: 1994
Availability: Out of Stock

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Written by two of the top experts in the power engineering field, this authoritative handbook contains valuable, hard-to-find information on engineering methods and strategies which can be used to insure safety and reliability of high voltage power systems. Emphasis is placed on design approaches which address the problems of high voltage waves and travelling surges which are associated with high voltage lines and equipment. The most frequent causes of these conditions are fully explained, including circuit interruption, fault conditions and lightning problems.

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• Circuit interruption fundamentals
• Circuit interruption
• Impulse characteristics & corona
• Lightning
• Wave propagation on transmission lines
• Traveling wave propagation
• Lightning protective devices
• Design of lightning proof transmission lines
• Methods of connecting protective devices
• Grounding
• Insulation coordination
• Appendices
• Index