Power Systems Modelling and Fault Analysis

Theory and Practice

Nasser Tleis

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780128151181
• Topic: Tecnologia e ingegneria
• Subtopic: Energia

Power Systems Modelling and Fault Analysis: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, focuses on the important core areas and technical skills required for practicing electrical power engineers. Providing a comprehensive and practical treatment of the modeling of electrical power systems, the book offers students and professionals the theory and practice of fault analysis of power systems, covering detailed and advanced theories and modern industry practices. The book describes relevant advances in the industry, such as international standards developments and new generation technologies, such as wind turbine generators, fault current limiters, multi-phase fault analysis, the measurement of equipment parameters, probabilistic short-circuit analysis, and more. - Includes a fully up-to-date guide to the analysis and practical troubleshooting of short-circuit faults in electricity utilities and industrial power systems - Presents sections on generators, transformers, substations, overhead powerlines and industrial systems - Covers best-practice techniques, safety issues, power system planning and economics

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• List of electrical symbols
• Foreword to second edition
• Foreword to first edition
• Preface to the second edition
• Preface to first edition
• Biography
• 1. Introduction to power system faults
• 2. Symmetrical components analysis of faulted three-phase networks containing voltage and current sources
• 3. Modelling of multiconductor overhead power lines, underground and submarine cables
• 4. Modelling of transformers, phase shifters, static power plant and static load
• 5. Modelling of rotating ac synchronous and induction machines
• 6. Modelling of voltage-source inverters, wind turbine and solar photovoltaic (PV) generators
• 7. Short-circuit analysis techniques in large-scale ac power systems
• 8. International standards for short-circuit analysis in ac power systems
• 9. Network equivalents and practical short-circuit current assessments in large-scale ac power systems
• 10. Control of high short-circuit fault currents and fault current limiters
• 11. An introduction to the analysis of short-circuit earth return current and rise of earth potential
• 12. An introduction to the analysis of electrical interference from power lines to metal pipelines
• Appendix A.1. Analysis of distributed multiconductor overhead lines and cables
• Appendix A.2. Reference frames for induction machines
• Appendix A.3. Root mean square value of an asymmetrical current waveform
• Appendix A.4. Typical data of power system equipment
• Index