Distribution Reliability and Power Quality provides an economical, sharply focused reference for engineers and technicians working in this specialty area of power distribution.
Features:
- Offers a finely concentrated yet thorough reference for reliability and power quality specialists
- Focuses on reliability and quality issues in power delivery
- Includes a new chapter on reliability and power quality improvement programs
- Explains the various issues and concepts in power quality as well as solutions for overcoming the problems
Contents
Reliability
- Reliability Indices
- Storms and Weather
- Variables Affecting Reliability Indices
- Modeling Radial Distribution Circuits
- Parallel Distribution Systems
- Improving Reliability
- Interruption Costs
Voltage Sags and Momentary Interruptions
- Location
- Momentary Interruptions
- Voltage Sags
- Characterizing Sags and Momentaries
- Occurrences of Voltage Sags
- Correlations of Sags and Momentaries
- Factors That Influence Sag and Momentary Rates
- Prediction of Quality Indicators Based on Site Characteristics
- Equipment Sensitivities
- Solution Options
- Power Quality Monitoring
Other Power Quality Issues
- Overvoltages and Customer Equipment Failures
- Switching Surges
- Harmonics
- Flicker
- Voltage Unbalance
Faults
- General Fault Characteristics
- Fault Calculations
- Limiting Fault Currents
- Arc Characteristics
- high-Impedance Faults
- External Fault Causes
- Equipment Faults
- Faults in Equipment
Reliability and Power Quality Improvement Programs
- Improvements in Protection Practices
- Fault Sources
- Programs to Reduce Fault Rates
- Outage Follow-Ups
- Problem-Circuit Audits
- Construction Upgrade Programs
- Using Outage Databases
Index
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