Power System Analysis ─ Short-Circuit Load Flow and Harmonics

A power system engineer with long experience in power plants and nuclear facilities, Das adds new chapters to accommodate the emergence of the arc flash hazard analysis and reduction of hazard risk category in electrical systems, and of wind power generation and its integration into utility systems. Updates also reflect changes in the ANSI/IEEE standards, and new material has been added to most of the chapters. No date is cited for the first edition. The topics include unsymmetrical fault calculations, the short circuit of synchronous and induction machines, load flow methods, and harmonic mitigation and filters. The treatment is mostly at the upper-undergraduate level but some at the graduate level. Students are assumed to have a basic knowledge of per unit systems, electrical circuits and machinery, and matrices. Chapter-end problems are included. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

J.C. Das is a consultant with Electrical Power Systems in Atlanta, Georgia.