Electrical Power Engineering: Reference & Applications Handbook: 1 - Hardcover

Agrawal, K.C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8190164252 ISBN 13: 9788190164252

Publisher: KNOWLEDGE BOOKS INC., 2007

Synopsis

"The present edition is a thoroughly revised and upgraded version of the earlier handbook 'Industrial Power Engineering and Applications Handbook'(ISBN 0- 7506- 7351- 6) that was first published by Elsevier Science, USA under the flagship of Newnes Power Engineering Series, UK (through Butterworth Heinemann, UK).This is adjudged to be a unique and rare Handbook of its kind. Elsevier Science themselves have remarked for this book as 'Never before has so much ground being covered in a single volume reference resource. This book is sure to be great value to students, technicians and practicing engineers as well as equipment designers and manufacturers, and should become their one-stop for all information needs in this subject area. Newnes Elsevier Science: The revised edition accounts for technological changes, product developments and new applications that have taken place in the last one decade. This also takes account of upgraded and new national and international Standards that have become available in this period. Some of the new topics that have been added are noted in Table P-1(under Preface). It has been done to keep the readers well informed of the latest technologies and practices being adopted worldwide in the field of Electrical and Electronic Power Engineering. Energy saving and space saving are buzzwords in today's world. All these aspects have been given due consideration in the present handbook and accordingly special thrust is laid on, - Energy conservation - Use of energy efficient electrical and electronic equipment and devices - Environment and pollution controls - Space saving - Energy conservation. All efforts have been made to identify areas, equipment and devices that can save energy. Some such areas discussed in this book are : - Energy efficient motors (EEM) - Soft starters and energy feedback through static drives - Energy efficient and space saver belt drives - Fluid couplings for soft starting and energy saving - Power cables, busbars and gas or fluid pipelines - Air insulated and gas insulated switchgears (GIS) and general guidelines to save energy where possible. - Compact and sandwich low loss busbar systems - Retrofitting of old installations, equipment and devices with energy efficient and space saving equipment and devices. It is suggestive that manufacturers and equipment suppliers, who deal with energy efficient products or technologies, as customary, provide repayment schedule to their users for encouraging them use energy efficient products and technologies and enable them take a more pragmatic decision while making the purchases. Environment - Similarly, thrust is on environmental and pollution controls by way of effluent treatment of waste water and disposal of wastes. - Also practicing EMC/EMI norms to control electromagnetic and radiated field environmental pollutions. - Restrictions on the use of certain hazardous substances (RoHS) in the manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) and their waste management (WEEE) - (collection, treatment, recycling and disposal under controlled conditions).The book is in five parts and each part is a mini encyclopedia by itself;
-Part 1: Electric Motors Application, Drives and Energy Saving.
-Part 2: Switchgear Assemblies and Captive (Emergency) Power Generation
-Part 3: Voltage surges and Over Voltages, Circuit Interrupters & Grounding Practises
-Part 4: Power Capacitors & Reactive Power Controls
-Part 5: Busbar Systems"

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Review

EXCELLENT The book is a treasure to have for all practicing Engineers. Posted by Mezaiaomar | | Location Noida, India ENHANCING KNOWLEDGE The handbook is an asset for enhancing knowledge of our engineers. Posted by Gautam Kumar | | Location Tricolite Electrical Industries Pvt. Ltd. INTERNATIONAL ELECTRICAL HANDBOOK Allow me to congratulate you as you seem to be the first Indian who has written something that is comparable with other international electrical handbooks. Posted by Agnelo D'costa | This book is best book I have seen in Electrical Engineering. Though I have many books in my personal library, this will top all in Electrical Engineering Books. The best part is, this book bridges the theory to practical very well. Posted by M.V. Nayak | | Company Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. FOR PRACTICING ENGINEERS The book is a treasure to have for all practicing Engineers Posted by Vikram Mathur | FOR PRACTICING ENGINEERS I found the book really very useful and comprehensive for young and practicing engineers. It is amply evident that a lot of hard work, time & toil have gone into making of the book. Posted by B Raman | Company BHEL OF IMMENSE PRACTICAL USE This book is of immense practical use as treatment of subjects is comprehensive and covers widely confronted problems and issues in the field. O.P. Bhartia; Bhartia Cutler Hammer: COMMENDABLE ENDEAVOR Information is vast, useful and rare. Rare blend of theoretical study along with practical data and tips. Material of immense use to practicing engineers. All 32 Chapters are very interesting. Book gives concept of one window shopping eliminating the need for hunting information at several places. Book is indeed a commendable endeavor. The book can surely be termed as a handbook on these subjects. Posted by S. P. Sharma | L & T HELPFUL REFERENCE BOOK Simple & informative approach adopted in the book shall prove helpful in guiding/understanding the fundamental/concepts in its application/usage while considering the procurement of electrical power equipment & then in its testing & usage. The book seems to be true in bringing the importance of the practical implementation of the electrical formulate / theories involved. The reference to Indian / equivalent international standard in the book is of utmost relevance while preparing specification. This aspects is mostly missing in most of the other books. Tables/examples/figure/pictorial representation/comparative studies and tables are very useful, which may serve as ready reckoner for various topics. Can be used as very helpful reference book. Posted by H.S. Manocha | Company Bhakra Beas Management Board NEVER BEFORE I wish to compliment you on producing a book, the like of which I don t think really exist at least in India, if not the world. Vijay Shahane: Jasper Switchgears Pvt. Ltd.: NEVER BEFORE I thumbed through your voluminous book on electrical power engineering which, to say the least, is an awe inspiring work. Balgopal: Dynaspede Integrated Systems Ltd.: Email: NEVER BEFORE Never before has so much ground being covered in a single volume reference resource. This book is sure to be great value to students, technicians and practicing engineers as well as equipment designers and manufacturers, and should become their one-stop for all information needs in this subject area. Newnes Elsevier Science: --Newnes Elsevier Science:

FOR ENGINEERS IN DESIGN 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, practicing engineers, consultants, technicians, students, teachers, research scholars and all others professionally interested in industrial pow --Dr N K Gupta, iee org/ /power sector

FOR ENGINEERS IN D --Dr N K Gupta, iee org/ /power sector

FOR ENGINEERS IN DESIGN 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, practicing 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. 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 organizations like ISO, IEEE, ANSI, BIS, 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 yeoman's service to practicing engineers, the author has done a great favor 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. Posted by Bhaskar Sinha, | Location Noida, India FOR ENGINEERS IN APPLICATION AND PRACTICE This book is a single source of all information needs in the subject of power engineering. It aims at bringing the gap between the concept and the application. The book acts as a handy reference to all those in the field of design & application, protection & testing, production, project implementation or maintenance, in addition to the sales and purchase of these projects. Each subject is covered comprehensively from theory to practice with relevant examples and details on all relevant international standards including ISO, IEEE, ANSI, NEMA etc. Never before has so much ground been covered in a single volume reference source. This book will surly be of great value to students, technicians, practicing engineers equipment designers and manufacturers. Posted by | Magazine Electrical & Electronics Magazine p72, June 2004 edition. --Electrical & Electronics Magazine

NEVER BEFORE Never before has so much ground being covered in a single volume reference resource. This book is sure to be great value to students, technicians and practicing engineers as well as equipment designers and manufacturers, and should become their one-stop for all information needs in this subject area. Newnes Elsevier Science: SINGLE SOURCE INFORMATION This book is a single source of all information needed in the subject of power engineering. It aims at bringing the gap between the concept and the application. The book acts as a handy reference to all those in the field of design & application, protection & testing, production, project implementation or maintenance, in addition to the sales and purchase of these projects. Each subject is covered comprehensively from theory to practice with relevant examples and details on all relevant international standards including ISO, IEEE, ANSI, NEMA etc. Never before has so much ground been covered in a single volume reference source. This book will surly be of great value to students, technicians, practicing engineers equipment designers and manufacturers. Electrical and Electronics Magazines p.72, June 2004 edition AN ASSET TO PRACTICING ENGINEERS The good features of the book are : Worked examples throughout the book a list of formulae used and references for further study are provided, at the end of each chapter. Good indexing towards the end of the book Excellent presentation with well-written text and clear diagrams. To summarise, the book will be an asset to practicing engineers. It is easy to understand and should help applications engineers to select and design a suitable machine or power system for their needs. It may be a useful help book. Reviewed by Dr N K Gupta, ieee/ /power sector --Dr N K Gupta, iee org/ /power sector

About the Author

K C Agrawal, an electrical engineer and senior member of IEEE, USA, had had more than 33 years experience in different capacities in academics, PSUs, 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 souces 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 .

Edition details

• Publisher: KNOWLEDGE BOOKS INC.
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 8190164252
• ISBN 13: 9788190164252
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1125