Modern Power System Planning

Title: Modern Power System Planning
Author: J.R. McDonald, X. Wang
ISBN: 0077074149 / 9780077074142
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 476
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 1994
Availability: Out of Stock

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Modern Power System Planning covers the area of planning in the electrical supply industry, from power station generation to transmission and distribution. It will enable the practising engineer to implement the increasingly sophisticated and most modern techniques of planning.

This text offers a clear, detailed treatment of this subject with each chapter building on the material of the previous one. The reader is familiarized with mathematical and statistical theory before the applications are introduced, and the material in each chapter is cross-referenced for clarity and to reinforce the concepts presented.

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Special Feature Include :

• A detailed review of the WASP computer package and the development of an improved approach
• The inclusion of detailed algorithms and flow charts
• Self-contained chapters or ease-of-reader open learning

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Preface

Chapter 1 : The Forecasting of Growth of Demand for Electrical Energy
Chapter 2 : Power System Reliability Calculation
Chapter 3 : Power System Probabilistic Production Simulation
Chapter 4 : Maintenance Scheduling of Generating Units in a Power System
Chapter 5 : Generation Planning
Chapter 6 : Network Planning

Author Index
Subject Index