Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers

The definitive guide to electrical equipment, design, and methods—updated with details on smart grids and smart meters

The Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers contains, in a single volume, all of the pertinent electrical engineering data essential to both engineering students and practicing engineers. It provides information relative to the generation, transmission, distribution, control, operation, and application of electric power. The Sixteenth Edition provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of electrical engineering equipment, design, and methods, including details on green technologies.

New to this Edition:

• New information on energy storage systems
• New section on smart grids for electrical utilities
• New section on electricity markets
• Chapters updated throughout to cover current information and green technologies

Complete coverage:
Units, Symbols, Constants, Definitions, and Conversion Factors; Electric and Magnetic Circuits; Measurements and Instruments; Properties of Materials; Generation; Prime Movers; Alternating-Current Generators; Direct-Current Generations; Hydroelectric Power Generation; Power System Components; Alternate Sources of Power; Electric Power System Economics; Project Economics; Transmission Systems; Direct Current Power Transmission; Power-System Operations; Substations; Power Distribution; Wiring Design for Commercial and Industrial Buildings; Motors and Drives; Industrial and Commercial Applications of Electric Power; Power Electronics; Power Quality and Reliability; Grounding Systems; Computer Applications in the Electric Power Industry; Illumination; Lightning and Overvoltage Protection; Standards in Electrotechnology, Telecommunications, and Information Technology

H. Wayne Beaty is the former managing editor of Electric Light and Power and is editor of McGraw-Hill''s Standard Handbook of Electrical Engineering, Sixteenth Edition, co-editor of McGraw-Hill''s Handbook of Electric Power Calculations, andElectric Power Systems Quality, Third Edition. Beaty is a Senior Member of IEEE.Donald G. Fink was director emeritus of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).