Electric Safety
eBook - PDF

Electric Safety

Practice and Standards

  1. 464 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Electric Safety

Practice and Standards

About this book

Electric power engineering education traditionally covers safety of the power equipment and systems. Little attention, if any, is given to the safety of people. When they reach professional status, most power engineers are not familiar with electric safety issues such as practices governing site works or grounding techniques of dwellings, hospitals

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Author
  6. List of Acronyms
  7. Disclaimer
  8. 1. Fundamentals of Electricity
  9. 2. Basic Components of an Electric Grid
  10. 3. Physiological Effects of Electricity
  11. 4. Ground Resistance
  12. 5. General Hazards of Electricity
  13. 6. Induced Voltage due to Electric Field
  14. 7. Induced Voltage due to Magnetic Field
  15. 8. De-Energized Line Work
  16. 9. Live-Line Work
  17. 10. Arc Flash
  18. 11. Atmospheric Discharge
  19. 12. Stray and Contact Voltages
  20. 13. Electric Safety under Power Lines
  21. 14. Coupling between Power Lines and Pipelines, Railroads, and Telecommunication Cables