Modern Solutions for Protection, Control,and Monitoring of Electric Power Systems, Edited by Héctor J. Altuve Ferrer and Edmund O. Schweitzer, III ¿ publishing on June 1, 2010 ¿ addresses the concerns and challenges of protection, control, communications and power system engineers. It also presents solutions relevant to decision-making personnel at electric utilities and industries, and is appropriate for university students and faculty.Approaches, technology solutions and examples explained in this book provide engineers with tools to help meet today¿s power system requirements, including:- Reduced security margins resulting from limitations on new transmission lines and generating stations.- Variable and less predictable power flows stemming from new generation sources and free energy markets.- Modern protection, control, and monitoring solutions to prevent and mitigate blackouts.- Increased communications and automation (sometimes referred to as the ¿smart grid¿)Modern Solutions brings together the combined expertise of engineers working on power system operation, planning, asset management, maintenance, protection, control, monitoring, and communications. Authors include Allen D. Risley, Armando Guzmán Casillas, Brian A. McDermott, Daquing Hou, David A. Costello, David J. Dolezilek, Demtrios Tziouvaras, Edmund O. Schweitzer, III, Gabriel Benmouyal, Gregary C. Zweigle, Héctor J. Altuve Ferrer, Joseph B. Mooney, Michael J. Thompson, Ronald A. Schwartz, and Veselin Skendzic.

Electrical supply from transmitted water-power is now distributed in more than fifty cities of North America. These include Mexico City, with a population of 402,000; Buffalo and San Francisco, with 352,387 and 342,782 respectively; Montreal, with 266,826, and Los Angeles, St. Paul, and Minneapolis, with populations that range between 100,000 and 200,000 each. North and south these cities extend from Quebec to Anderson, and from Seattle to Mexico City. East and west the chain of cities includes Portland, Springfield, Albany, Buffalo, Hamilton, Toronto, St. Paul, Butte, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco. To reach these cities the water-power is electrically transmitted, in many cases dozens, in a number of cases scores, and in one case more than two hundred miles. In the East, Canada is the site of the longest transmission, that from Shawinigan Falls to Montreal, a distance of eighty-five miles.

A thorough analysis of basic electrical-systems considerations is presented. Guidance is provided in design, construction, and continuity of an overall system to achieve safety of life and preservation of property; reliability; simplicity of operation; voltage regulation in the utilization of equipment within the tolerance limits under all load conditions; care and maintenance; and flexibility to permit development and expansion. Recommendations are made regarding system planning; voltage considerations; surge voltage protection; system protective devices; fault calculations; grounding; power switching, transformation, and motor-control apparatus; instruments and meters; cable systems; busways; electrical energy conservation; and cost estimation.

This series of modules, collectively known as the NRECA International Technical Assistance Guides (TAGs), is the result of an effort to document NRECA International%u2019s vast rural electrification and electric cooperative development experience. The modules have been prepared with the purpose of serving as practical guides for practitioners, as well as educational material for those who wish to learn more about specific topics within the field of rural electrification and the electric cooperative model. The overall objective of these modules is to improve rural electrification project design, implementation, construction, and system operation, ultimately leading to a higher quality and more reliable electric service for those consumers involved.

Jerry Thigpen's study on the history of the Combat Talon is the first effort to tell the story of this wonderfully capable machine. This weapons system has performed virtually every imaginable tactical event in the spectrum of conflict and by any measure is the most versatile C-130 derivative ever produced. First modified and sent to Southeast Asia (SEA) in 1966 to replace theater unconventional warfare (UW) assets that were limited in both lift capability and speed the Talon I quickly adapted to theater UW tasking including infiltration and resupply and psychological warfare operations into North Vietnam. After spending four years in SEA and maturing into a highly respected UW weapons system the Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) chose the Combat Talon to lead the night low-level raid on the North Vietnamese prison camp at Son Tay. Despite the outcome of the operation the Talon I cemented its reputation as the weapons system of choice for long-range clandestine operations. In the period following the Vietnam War United States Air Force (USAF) special operations gradually lost its political and financial support which was graphically demonstrated in the failed Desert One mission into Iran. Thanks to congressional supporters like Earl Hutto of Florida and Dan Daniel of Virginia funds for aircraft upgrades and military construction projects materialized to meet the ever-increasing threat to our nation. Under the leadership of such committed hard-driven officers as Brenci Uttaro Ferkes Meller and Thigpen the crew force became the most disciplined in our Air Force. It was capable of penetrating hostile airspace at night in a low-level mountainous environment covertly to execute any number of unconventional warfare missions.

This book is an attempt to present under one cover the current state of knowledge concerning the potential lightning effects on aircraft and that means that are available to designers and operators to protect against these effects. The impetus for writing this book springs from two sources- the increased use of nonmetallic materials in the structure of aircraft and the constant trend toward using electronic equipment to handle flight-critical control and navigation function.