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.

Both deregulation in the electrical supply industry and the creation of new electricity markets present electric utility companies with the challenge of becoming more efficient without compromising quality of service. Providing new solutions for this newly deregulated paradigm, Power Quality: VAR Compensation in Power Systems presents comprehensive coverage of power quality, harmonics, and static var compensators in one single volume. The book explains how to ensure that power quality is not affected by the harmonics generated by power electronic equipment and explains how to reduce labor costs and increase reliability of supply by employing a single pole autoreclosing scheme. It also addresses how to analyze frequency response of current transformers and voltage transformers while measuring harmonics. Based on the authors’ extensive experience in the electric supply industry, Power Quality enables engineers to meet the demands of increased loads, strengthen their transmission systems, and ensure reliable electric supply.

This book reflects fundamentals to the power system and equips them to recognize and solve the transient problems in power networks and their components. Practicality has been a paramount concern in its preparation. Many pioneers of electrical engineering explored the transient behaviors of electric circuits. This book effectively helpful for the graduate, postgraduate studies and researches on power system transients and emergence & re-emergence the problems in the power system operations and control for new applications with new equipment. I have attempted to set out the fundamental ideas at the beginning of the book and made a consistent effort to show thereafter how one peels away the superficial differences in practical transient studies by referring to various books, researches, and physical industrial visits.

This book covers all important elements of industrial power distribution-system planning, selection of distribution voltages and systems, and methods of fault current calculations. It also covers the illuminating engineering and design principles based on the latest concepts and approaches.