Electrical Power Systems Design and Analysis

by El-Hawary, Mohamed E.

• ISBN13: 9780780311404
• ISBN10: 078031140X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-03-09
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
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Summary

This comprehensive textbook introduces electrical engineers to the most relevant concepts and techniques in electric power systems engineering today. With an emphasis on practical motivations for choosing the best design and analysis approaches, the author carefully integrates theory and application. Key features include more than 500 illustrations and diagrams, clearly developed procedures and application examples, important mathematical details, coverage of both alternating and direct current, an additional set of solved problems at the end of each chapter, and an historical overview of the development of electric power systems. This book will be useful to both power engineering students and professional power engineers.

Author Biography

Mohamed El-Aref El-Hawary, is an Egyptian-born Canadian scientist of electric power system studies and the involvement of traditional/modern optimization algorithms, fuzzy systems, and artificial neural networks in their applications.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Introduction.

Some Basic Principles.

Power Generation and the Synchronous Machine.

The Transmission Subsystem.

The Load Subsystem.

Analysis of Interconnected Systems.

High-Voltage Direct-Current Transmission.

Faults on Electric Energy Systems.

System Protection.

Power System Stability.

Optimal Operation of Electric Power Systems.

Index.