Protective Relaying (Power Engineering (Willis)) [Hardcover]

J. Lewis Blackburn (Author), Thomas J. Domin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0824799186 | ISBN-13: 978-0824799182 | Publication Date: October 17, 1997 | Edition: 2

Maintaining the features that made the previous edition a bestseller, this book covers large and small utility systems as well as industrial and commercial systems. The author provides a completely new treatment of generator protection in compliance with governmental rules and regulations and supplies expanded information on symmetrical components. The text delineates individual protection practices for all equipment components; furnishes an overview of power system grounding, including system ferroresonance and safety grounding basics; analyzes power system performance during abnormal conditions; describes the relationship of input source performance to protection; and much more.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 560 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 2 edition (October 17, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824799186
• ISBN-13: 978-0824799182
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,825,786 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An outstanding book, November 6, 2000

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P. Wung "Engineering is my vocation, volleyba... (Tipp City, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Protective Relaying (Power Engineering (Willis)) (Hardcover)

In order to appreciate this book, one must understand the history behind power system protective relaying. As the previous reviewers have mentioned, the two classic bibles in protective relaying is the Westinghouse Protective Relaying book and the Westinghouse T & D book. Lewis Blackburn put the former book together while he worked at Westinghouse and he had a hand in the second book as well. My father attended the Westinghouse training courses in the 1950's and his instructor was Lew Blackburn. Over time, Mr. Blackburn became a family friend and I grew up listening to them talk about the electric power industry and learned about the subject at the feet of the master. Even though I went into motors instead of relaying, I still enjoyed reading this book.

After Mr. Blackburn retired from Westinghouse, he became a consultant and proceeded to put the material in this book together. It was a labor of love, for a lot of people have said that the practice of protective relying is like black magic because there are many correct ways to protect a system, they all have problems but it is up to the practitioner to determine the best solution for a given situation. Mr. Blackburn poured his years of experience and expertise into this book. He tried to do this in a systematic manner in order to reduce the amount of ambiguity usually associated with the black arts. I believe he has succeeded.

I would agree with the others that the second edition was a letdown from the first, but then again, most first editions are more informative because authors wrote "their" book with the first edition, the following editions are ususally to answer the critics and publishers.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Second edition has less detailed examples than the first, August 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Protective Relaying (Power Engineering (Willis)) (Hardcover)

In working through the examples, I found that Blackburn decided to remove the details for the solutions of the example problems and just state that intermediate steps are "easily calculated." The answers are still given, but this caused me a problem when I was working the examples and didn't get the answer he presented. I had to refer back to the first edition to catch my error.

I would recommend keeping the first edition if you have it, and purchasing this one since he updates the chapter on generator protection (according to the 2nd ed preface).

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is my "go to" book on most protection issues., May 18, 1999

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This review is from: Protective Relaying (Power Engineering (Willis)) (Hardcover)

Being in System Protection for the past 6 years I have collected quite a nice library of books related to my field of protective relaying. I have used Blackburn's book until the pages are dog eared. It is generally the first book I grab off the shelf to start reviewing a protection topic or to refresh my memory. Blackburn did an excellent job with straight forward practical examples and applications...as you might expect from one of the masters in the field. This book along with the old Westinghouse Applied Protective Relaying book (relaying Bible) and the ABB T&D book (formerly Westinghouse book) cover the majority of topics a protection enginerd needs.