Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), California (USA), 1989. — 1034 p. Modernization of hydroelectric facilities often extends plant life, reduces power loss, increases availability, and boosts power output. This guide helps utility managers to evaluate, plan, and coordinate the modernization of the major plant components that would achieve those objectives. Hydropower...
Monograph, the 1st edition, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), California (USA), 1999-2001, 2170 p. Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) developed a 7 volume set of Guidelines for life extension and modernization of hydro plants. These documents will provide the means to enable utility personnel to identify which hydroelectric plants are potentially suitable for...
Monograph. — Springer, 2010. — 429 p. Over the past decade, high-voltage electrophysical systems (HES) previously used for physical investigations have expanded into engineering applications. A start has been made on the mass production of engineering lasers, accelerators, and systems using spark discharge in condensed media as a working tool. The electrical insulation of these...
Springer, 1997. — 270 p. The book is distinct contribution to the literature on power system operation and control. The book brings the experience of a power system operating as part of the well-developed UCPTE in Europe and brings unique experience in developing interconnected operation of adjoining systems each with its own characteristics and methods of operation. Computer...
3rd edition. — Recom, Gmunden, 2016. — 287 p. The function of any AC/DC or DC/DC converter module is to meet one or more of the following requirements: to match the secondary load to the primary power supply to provide isolation between primary and secondary circuits to provide protection against the effects of faults, short circuit or over heating to simplify compliance with...
2nd edition. — McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961. — 474 p. The original approach was based on technology developed in the early naval reactor program, and consequently only highly enriched U235 reactors watter cooled and water moderated. Approaches to control problems were suggested by heterogeneous water technology. An elementary servomechanisms chapter has been added without an...
Monograph. — Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1981. — 439 p.
This book is based on lectures in physical chemistry given by the author for many years to students of chemistry at Moscow State University. As its title implies, the book is a text on thermodynamics designed primarily for chemists and is intended as a part of a general course in physical chemistry. In distinction to the...
2nd edition. — ABB, Vaasa, 2005. — 117 p. The motor guide gives basic technical information about low voltage standard motors. General purpose motors are readily available from central stock locations and distributors throughout the world. While designed for standard and straightforward uses, the motors can be modified to meet most specifications. Built to the highest...
Mionograph, the 5th edition, ABB Power T&D Company Inc., New York, 1997, pg. 851 Book gives a simple, practical and useful reference book for electric utility engineers as well as electrical equipment designers. Power engineers have used what has become popularly known as the ''T&D Book" both as a core technical reference and as a tutorial on the finer points of power delivery...
Monograph, the 3rd edition, Scientific papers of the Bureau of Standards, Washington, 1948, pg. 264 A great many formulas have been given for calculating the mutual and self-inductance of the various cases of electrical circuits occuring in practice. In the last section some formulas are given for the variation of the self-inductance and resistance with the frequency. In the...
Monograph, the 1st edition, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 2009, pg. 300. Reprint of book originally published in 1946. Monograph for engineers and scientists engaged in the accurate calculation of self and mutual inductance. The book is based on the work carried out by E. B. Rosa and F. W. Grover during their distinguished careers at the American National Bureau of...
2nd edition. — John Wiley & sons, New York, 1997. — 530 p. Significant advances have been made in the development of maintenance-free batteries during the last few years. Written by an internationally known expert in the field, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the theory and practice of the three main types of maintenance-free batteries based on...
Monograph, the 1st edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton (USA), 2014, pg. 248 Development of modern machinery and transition to microprocessor-based elements is accompanied by constant sophistication. Modern digital protection relay (DPR) devices, unlike old electromechanical relays, require power supplies. Quality and reliability of relay protection (RP) power supply systems and...
Monograph, the 1st edition, John Wiley & sons, Somerset (UK), 1991, pg. 741 The primary function of overhead transmission lines and substation busbars is to transfer electric power. Because the voltage is usually fixed, the power that can be transferred depends on the current and its phase. Each conductor or busbar has resistance to the flow of electric current; hence it will...
John Wiley & Sons, 2015. — 432 p. At the time of writing, there are over 170 high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) links installed worldwide. The largest installations operate at ±800kV DC voltage and the highest DC current ratings are over 4500A. Although alternating current was the predominant method for transmitting electrical energy in the twentieth century, HVDC was...
Monograph, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, 1999, pg. 224 Analytical modeling of HVDC systems has been a difficult task without a to-date reported model convenient for serious analysis of practically reported HVDC stability problems. In order to cover the frequency range f<100Hz, and to cater for different model requirements, three different HVDC-HVAC models are...
Oxford (GB): Newnes, 2000. — 204 p. This book is written for the type of clients that we often see in our laboratory at TEMPEST INC.: Electrical or mechanical engineers who are faced with thorny electromagnetic compatibility problems and who need to design a shielded enclosure. Even though shielding does involve electromagnetic theory, this book makes a special effort to avoid...
Monograph, the 2nd edition, Newnes, Oxford (GB), 1998, pg. 271 Electrically operated items are commonplace today, be they in the house, industry or around us. Their sophistication has made life easier, but their very proliferation has led to a greater need to guard against mutual interference. This book is aimed at those concerned with protection and who are technically...
Monograph, The Ohio State University, USA, 2005, pg. 190 Along with the growth in demand for electric power, sustainable development, environmental issues, and power quality and reliability have become concerns. Electric utilities are becoming more and more stressed since existing transmission and distribution systems are facing their operating constraints with growing load....
CRC Press, 2013. — 246 р. This book was written to provide a solid foundation for the organizational management of hazardous materials and wastes. As a result, it focuses on managerial and strategic issues and attempts to highlight the impact of strategic decisions on the actual operating environment and on society as a whole. An introduction to the concept of hazardous...
2nd edition. — New York: CRC Press, 2015. — 424 p. The purpose of this book is to give engineers and managers, working in companies and governments around the world, a pragmatic and reasonable approach to system safety and risk assessment techniques and to design viable safety management systems. Plants are so complex today that we cannot identify the hazards and operating...
Monograph, the 2nd edition, BH - Elsevier, Oxford, 2006, pg.290 A particular area where this has happened is in the standards dealing with electrical, electronic and programmable electronic safety-related control systems. An early standard, IEC 61508, which was concerned with safety-related control systems for all machinery, including those where failure effects could be...
Munich: CRgraph, 2012. — 150 p. The development of reliable products is taking place under evermore stringent constraints - ever increasing complexity, greater functionality and more extensive product liability. The aim should therefore be to create reliability as a preventative measure as early as during the development phase. This study concerns itself with statistical...
World Scientific, 2005. — 427 p. This volume is published on the occasion of the fourth International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR 2004). A broad overview of current research activities in reliability theory and its applications is provided with coverage on reliability modeling, network and system reliability, Bayesian methods, survival analysis,...
Monograph. — World Scientific, 2001. — 339 p. This volume presents recent research in reliability and quality theory and its applications by many leading experts in the field. The subjects covered include reliability optimization, software reliability, maintenance, quality engineering, system reliability, Monte Carlo simulation, tolerance design optimization, manufacturing...
Monograph. — 1st edition. — Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1986. — 448 p. This book mainly aims at the description of the experimental substantiation of the theory of electromagnetism and the formulation of the theory in the local form, i.e. in the form of relations between physical quantities at the same point in space and time. In most cases, these relations are expressed in the...
Monograph. — New York: Pearson Education, 2005. — 483 p. The book tells the story of Electromagnetism (EM), from its 19th century beginnings to its present place, somewhere in the 21st century. It starts with simple expositions of Coulomb's law and the magnetic law of Biot-Savart. At each stage in the development it demonstrates how the subject could be defined on a more...
Monograph, the 1st edition, IEEE Press, New York, 1999. — 221 p. The modeling of magnetic materials can be performed at various levels of resolution. The highest level of resolution is the atomic level. At this level, one can use quantum mechanics to understand the basic processes involved. The next step down in resolution is the micromagnetic level, where the magnetization is...
Monograph, the 1st edition, CRC Press, New York, 2014. — 560 p. Engineering electrodynamics is the science of the practical industrial application of classical electrodynamics and physics. It takes into account physical properties of materials, magnetic and thermal nonlinearities, forces and motion, and so on. Semi-empirical, analytical–experimental, rationally reduced models...
Monograph, the 2nd edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2012, pg.602 The material in this book has evolved from a course “Theory and Control of Synchronous Machines”. This book analyses the synchronous machine modeling by taken into account the machine parameters usually used in industry. Model is developed in the (d, q) natural reference frames. The book presents synchronous...
Monograph, the 1st edition, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1951, pg.229 The primary object of thos book is to present a unified development of the fundamental circuit theory of the transient performance of synchronous machines as currently used by the engineers directly concerned with the prediction of machine performance. The general equations developed are applied to the...
Monograph, the 1st edition, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1984, pg. 391 In this book transient behaviour in electrical machines, more specifically, problems of starting, hunting and switching in induction machines, short-circuit, hunting and excitation problems in synchronous machines, and finally, starting and hunting problems in d.c. machines. The vector method, the second...
Monograph, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2001, pg.212 High voltage engineering is a vast subject, extending from basic knowledge in physics, chemistry, and material science to applications in the insulation design of high-voltage transmission lines and substation equipment. Although high voltage engineering applications extend to...
Monograph, ČVUT, Prague, 2005, pg.192 The textbook builds on basic knowledge of time varying electromagnetic fields gained from courses in physics and electromagnetic field theory. The textbook introduces all the basic knowledge that an electrical engineer specializing in radio engineering and telecommunications should have and that is necessary for further courses such as...
Monograph, Academia, Prague, 1968, pg.509 The book contents the research into the fundamentals of surge phenomena in transformers and rotating machines practically to an end. Survey of the latest theoretical and empirical achievements will be a welcome contribution to a better understanding of surge processes in electrical machines, which is today a field of major importance in...
Monograph, the 3rd edition, Khanna Publisher, Delhi, 2002, pg.593 The book begins with the study of salient features of power diodes, power transistors, MOS- controlled thyristors and also other related topics. Each chapter begins at an introductory level and is so developed progressively that an average student can comprehend the subject matter easily. The topics covered in...
Oxford: Newnes, 2000. — xiv, 312 p. — ISBN: 978-0750641678. This is a guide for the system designers and installers faced with the day-to-day issues of achieving EMC, and will be found valuable across a wide range of roles and sectors, including process control, manufacturing, medical, IT and building management. The EMC issues covered will also make this book essential reading...
Wiley-VCH, 2011. — 576 p. Aiming to combine the fundamental information and brief overview on recent advances in solid-state electrochemistry, this handbook primarily focuses on the most important methodological, theoretical, and technological aspects, novel materials for solid-state electrochemical devices, factors determining their performance and reliability, and their...
Lecture. — Monterey - California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2003. — 411 p.
Review of plane waves, transmission lines and waveguides.
Basic antenna parameters and wire antennas.
Arrays, antennas in systems and active antennas.
Apertures, horns and reflectors.
Electromagnetic wave propagation.
Lecture, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey - California, 2010, P.350. overview of electromagnetic wavve propagation. Plane waves, transmission lines and waveguides. Antennas, systems and noise. Geometrical optics and geometrical theory of diffraction. Propagation near the Earth's surface. Ionospheric wave propagation. Electromagnetic radiation hazards. Atmospheric nuclear...
4th edition. — Elsevier - Newnes, 2007. — 512 p. — ISBN: 978-0750681704. Widely regarded as the standard text on Emc, tim Williams' book provides all the information necessary to meet the requirements of the Emc directive. Most importantly, it shows how to incorporate Emc design principles into products, avoiding cost and performance penalties, meeting the needs of specific...
CD-ROM companion of Electromagnetics For Engineers, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 2005, which was developed to serve the student as an interactive self-study supplement to the text. E-book uses standard HTML with JavaScript and Java for the interactive and animation capabilities. Make sure these are enabled in your browser preferences. Many requirements are...
Monograph, US edition, Pearson Education Inc., 2005, p. 414 For courses in Electromagnetics offered in Electrical Engineering departments and Applied Physics. Designed specifically for a one-semester EM course covering both statics and dynamics, the book uses a number of tools to facilitate understanding of EM concepts and to demonstrate their relevance to modern technology....
Monograph. — Second edition with Errata. — Reston: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005. — 514 p. In designing stealthy weapon systems such as combat aircraft or missiles, the consideration of their radar and laser cross sections is of paramount importance. Strategic or tactical aircraft in combat operations are threatened by interceptor aircraft,...
Monograph. — ASME, 1973. — 215 p. The authors are grateful to the companies, designers, and engineers who assisted in the development of the Piping Guide. Apart from source material, individual acknowledgements are not made because neither these contributors nor the authors assume liability or responsibility for designs using information presented herein. The user is...
3rd ed. — Gulf Professional Publishing, 1999. — 177 p. A pipe line buried in the earth represents a challenge. It is made of steel—a strong, but chemically unstable, material—and is placed in an environment which is nonuniform, nonprotective, and nonyielding. It is the duty of the corrosion engineer to study the properties of this system to ensure that the pipe line will not...
McGraw-Hill, 2004. — 687 p. This book covers piping calculations for liquids and gases in single phase steady state flow for various industrial applications. Pipe sizing and capacity calculations are covered mainly with additional analysis of strength requirement for pipes. In each case the basic theory necessary is presented first followed by several example problems fully...
New York: Lewis Publishers, 2003. — 448 p. Pipeline engineering has struggled to develop as a single field of study due to the wide range of industries and government organizations using different types of pipelines for all types of solids, liquids, and gases. This fragmentation has impeded professional development, job mobility, technology transfer, the diffusion of knowledge,...
Monograph, Center for Marine Materials, Florida Atlantic University, 2001, p. 68 Marine oil and gas transportation pipelines have been in service in the Gulf of Mexico. These lines are invariably protected from external corrosion by a combination of coatings and cathodic protection. Five research tasks were identified and addressed as: a) Development of a new approach to...
Monograph. — 4th edition. — McGraw-Hill, 2003. — 505 р. Heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) is defined as the simultaneous control of temperature, humidity, radiant energy, air motion and air quality within a space for the purpose of satisfying the requirements of comfort or a process. Not included in the definition, but often required, is the control of pressure...