Industrial Power Engineering Handbook (Newnes Power Engineering Series) [Hardcover]

KC Agrawal (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0750673516 | ISBN-13: 978-0750673518 | Publication Date: November 22, 2001 | Edition: 1

Never before has so much ground been covered in a single volume reference source. This five-part work is sure to be of great value to students, technicians and practicing engineers as well as equipment designers and manufacturers, and should become their one-stop shop for all information needs in this subject area.

This book will be of interest to those working with: Static Drives, Static Controls of Electric Motors, Speed Control of Electric Motors, Soft Starting, Fluid Coupling, Wind Mills, Generators, Painting procedures, Effluent treatment, Electrostatic Painting, Liquid Painting, Instrument Transformers, Core Balanced CTs, CTs, VTs, Current Transformers, Voltage Transformers, Earthquake engineering, Seismic testing, Seismic effects, Cabling, Circuit Breakers, Switching Surges, Insulation Coordination, Surge Protection, Lightning, Over-voltages, Ground Fault Protections, Earthing, Earth fault Protection, Shunt Capacitors, Reactive control, Bus Systems, Bus Duct, & Rising mains

*A 5-part guide to all aspects of electrical power engineering

*Uniquely comprehensive coverage of all subjects associated with power engineering

*A one-stop reference resource for power drives, their controls, power transfer and distribution, reactive controls, protection (including over voltage and surge protection), maintenance and testing electrical engineering

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Part 1:ELECTRIC MOTORSSelection, testing and protection including static controls and hydraulic drives.Deals with 3-phase and single phase a.c. machines, restricted to induction motors and their protective switchgears only. DC drives, synchronous motors or d.c. generators are not covered in this volume. But references have been provided for a d.c. motor and an exhaustive comparison of this machine with an a.c. machine has been drawn, to assist users in an appropriate selection.

The volume deals with aspects like shock loading and motors for hazardous locations, open transient condition in the case of HT motors during a switching sequence etc.- Also deals with static controls and drives, soft starting and process control through solid state technology (phasor and field oriented controls) using IGBTs, and energy conservation etc.- There is a special coverage on fluid couplings for soft starting and speed control. A comparison between static drives and variable speed fluid couplings is a unique feature.- Wind mill (induction generator) as a non-conventional energy source, vertical hollow shaft motors and submersible pump sets, selection of belts for transmission of load, phenomenon of shaft currents etc. are some extra topics.- The text covers testing requirements and an introduction to quality assurance systems and application of ISO:9001. - Special coverage on impulse testing of resin rich formed coils and their inhouse testing requirements.Part 2: SWITCHGEAR ASSEMBLIES AND CAPTIVE POWER GENERATIONIncluding painting procedure, instrument transformers and cable selection.- The subjects covered povide the details to specify and then design a switchgear assembly for all power distribution needs. It provides special coverage on draw-out assemblies. To establish the fault level of a system, it has special coverage including the electrodynamic and electromagnetic forces and to tackle these. For calculating the fault level only, rules of thumb and practical assumptions have been considered.- Full painting procedure and its effluent treatment is covered.- Instrument transformers (CTs, class PS CTs, VTs and CVTs etc.) form important components of a switchgear assembly for measurement and protection, and are covered for their specifications, selection and application.- Captive power generation is covered for application to a diesel generating set, its starting, protection, synchronising and load sharing etc. This topic is specially covered as it forms an important part of power distribution at any installation to provide an emergency source of supply.- Cables. Provides data and tables on cables and also underlines the procedure for the selection of the types and sizes of control and LT and HT power cables. Part 3: VOLTAGE SURGES, OVER VOLTAGES AND GROUNDING PRACTICES.Includes causes, effects and remedies and theory of over voltages, ground fault protection schemes and grounding practices.- provides technical support for switchgear assemblies and the machines fed by them, for their surge and over voltage protections.- deals with the BIL of a system, protective margins and insulation coordination etc.- deals with electric motors, surge behaviour and protection.- Reflection of travelling waves and surge transferences. - Application and selection of a surge capacitor and surge arrester.- provides information about the various types of interrupters in use, their switching behaviour, phenomenon of current chopping and quenching of arc plasma etc. It also provides a detailed comparison of the various types of interrupters available- Grounding philosophy and ground fault protection schemes are dealt with, to help an engineer choose the most appropriate grounding method and ground fault protection scheme for a machine or system. - Use of CBCTs and designing of a class PS CT etc.Part 4: POWER CAPACITORSIncludes power factor improvement and reactive power management. Application of shunt and series capacitors.- Reactive control- Harmonic effects and inductive interferences, use of filter and blocking circuits- Protection of capacitors and capacitor banks- covers brief design, manufacturing and test requirements, installation, maintenance and protection etc, the main thrust being on the application of power capacitors.- Application of series capacitors : Analysis of an uncompensated transmission line and capability of power transfer and system regulation with and without series compensation.- basics and behaviour of devices in operation are also discussed. - describes briefly the different types of power reactors required to control the inrush currents or suppress a system's harmonic disorders, besides absorbing the excessive charging currents on an EHV system. Part 5: BUS SYSTEMSIncludes metal enclosed non-isolated and isolated phase bus systems.- Power transfer constitutes a very important area of a power system. It has been dealt with, in detail for both LT and HT systems and for all ratings. For large to very large ratings, skin and proximity effects are specially dealt with- provides enough material to design, engineer, manufacture and test a bus system of any current and voltage rating.- specifically deals with: Design parameters, Short circuit effects, Electrodynamic and electromagnetic forces, Effects of proximity, Phase interleaving, or Phase transposition.- Designing a reactor for the middle phase to balance a large unbalanced current carrying system.- Recommended practices to mount buses and make bus connections.- Isolated phase bus system- Sample calculations to design an ITP.- Testing of Bus Systems.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 992 pages
• Publisher: Newnes; 1 edition (November 22, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0750673516
• ISBN-13: 978-0750673518
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 6.9 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,951,437 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

K. C. Agarwal, an electrical engineer and senior member of IEEE, USA, has had more than 33 years experience in different capacities - in academics , PSU's, multinationals like Crompton Greaves and NGEF (a unit of AEG West Germany) handling electric motors and generators and then running his own industry ECS (P)Ltd. for 24 years, manufacturing Switchgear Assemblies, Motor and Power Control Centres, Power Factor Control Panels, Static Drives, Bus Systems and undertaking Consultancy and Contracting jobs.

He is a well acclaimed professional and industrialist in his field. Carrying out research activities on his shop floor and acquiring knowledge from different sources have been his basic traits and are presented through this book.

He has also authored well acclaimed books "Shaping India of our dreams" and "Crusade India".

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute in content, July 2, 2002

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Vikram Mathur (Noida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Industrial Power Engineering Handbook (Newnes Power Engineering Series) (Hardcover)

A must have have for every practising Electrical Engineer. The USP of the book lies in its blending of theory with Practical know how of the technology which is a rare find in literature.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Unique Handbook, June 20, 2002

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Bhaskar Sinha (India) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Industrial Power Engineering Handbook (Newnes Power Engineering Series) (Hardcover)

Extract from a review by Bhaskar Sinha, Dy. G. M. (Engg.), BHEL,
published in Beacon, house journal of IEEE Delhi Section, Vol.21,No.1, (June 2002)

The release of a new title by the renowned technical publishing house of Newnes / Butterworth-Heinemann is usually a noteworthy event for the technical fraternity. The title under review has come as a surprise, not only because it far exceeds the standard usually set for handbooks but also because it has achieved the unique distinction of being a reference work equally useful and valuable for industry professionals, practising engineers, consultants, technicians, students, teachers, research scholars and all others professionally interested in industrial power systems.

By virtue of their diversity, complexity and size, industrial power systems throw a formidable challenge to the electrical engineer. Standard electrical engineer's handbooks do not address the requirements of this special field completely. For the large number of day-to-day problems faced by production, operation and maintenance engineers working in industries there are few dedicated reference books to fall back upon for guidance. The ones that are available also do not cover the ground adequately. The present work is perhaps the most complete industrial power systems handbook currently available.

This is a reference for all engineers in design and application, protection and testing, production, project engineering, project implementation and maintenance. The text is structured into five parts. The essential theory of each topic is covered first, followed by industrial practice information. The idea is that detailed theory can always be gleaned from textbooks. Agrawal knows where exactly he must draw the line between theory and application engineering.

Mr. Agrawal has effectively bridged the gap between theory and practice in his book. Clear application data and guidelines, manufacturer's practices, application practices, commercially available ratings of machines, selection, operation and maintenance of equipment and plant, troubleshooting - all are covered in every conceivable detail. The material is cleverly keyed in to the recommendations of international standards organisations like ISO, IEEE, ANSI, BSI, DIN, IEC, etc.

One detailed flip-through leaves you convinced of the publisher's claim that "never before has so much ground been covered in a single volume reference source". Apart from doing yeomen's service to practising engineers, the author has done a great favour to teachers at technical institutes who have limited access to information from the Industry. Students will now not be deprived of this kind of information since teachers can always refer this excellent handbook to reply to questions raised in the classroom.

The production values of the book are excellent. Each page is lavishly illustrated with high quality drawings, graphs and photographs. The overall structuring of the book is excellent.

There is no capsule biography of the author anywhere in the book. For most readers Agrawal will remain only a name.

At the end of it all, the book emerges as a landmark achievement in its field. When you put it down, you cannot help wishing there were separate handbooks of identical character in the areas of transmission, distribution and utilization too.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Power Plant Engineers, June 15, 2008

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Brandon L. Smith "optical practitioner" (St. Cloud, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Industrial Power Engineering Handbook (Newnes Power Engineering Series) (Hardcover)

The information in this book is top notch reference material for engineers who work in power plants. I use the book almost daily at my power plant everything is useful to me. The only reason I didn't put five stars is that the book was issued with the cover on upside down.