Power System Load Flow Analysis (ELECTRONICS) - Hardcover

Powell, Lynn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071447792 ISBN 13: 9780071447799

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2005

Synopsis

Focusing on the complexities of load flow analysis, this book develops the major algorithms used, covers the handling of generators and transformers in the analysis process, and details how these algorithms can be deployed in powerful software. It offers the tools required to predict load usage and prevent overloads, blackouts, and brownouts.

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A MASTER CLASS IN OPTIMIZING ELECTRICITY FLOW

Prevent across-the-grid failures, as well as localized brownouts and blackouts, and accurately anticipate future usage with this rigorous tutorial on load flow analysis. Expert Lynn Powell's Power System Load Flow Analysis breaks the complex tasks involved in mathematical modeling of complicated power grids into short segments, making the computational tools of this trade easier to grasp and use. This text derives well-known major algorithms, and shows you how they are deployed in powerful software. Here's all the help you need to:

• Predict network loadings, prevent overloads, and anticipate future needs
• Model generators, transformers, and other equipment mathematically
• Solve nonlinear load flow equations
• Deploy algorithms in software
• Efficiently troubleshoot emerging problems
• Discover common causes of solution difficulties

Electrical load flow analysis is critically important in the planning and management of power networks. This expert guide gives you all the tools you need to gain a detailed understanding of the subject.

INSIDE:
System Representation * The Load Flow Problem * Reference System * Jacobi Method - Gauss-Seidel Method * Z-Matrix Methods * Newton-Raphson Methods * Newton-Raphson Method Using Cartesian Coordinates * Newton-Raphson Method Using Polar Coordinates * Fast Decoupled Method * DC Load Flow * Voltage Control: Generators * Voltage Control: On-Load Tap Changing Transformers * Results Output * Solution Difficulties * Appendix: Starting Voltages

Synopsis

This rigorous tutorial is aimed at both power system professionals and electrical engineering students. Breaking down the complexities of load flow analysis into a series of short, focused chapters, the book develops each of the major algorithms used, covers the handling of generators and transformers in the analysis process, and details how these algorithms can be deployed in powerful software. Having read the book, an EE student or engineer will have all the tools necessary to predict load usage and prevent overloads, blackouts, and brownouts.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0071447792
• ISBN 13: 9780071447799
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 182