Electrical Power Systems Quality, Third Edition, is a complete, accessible, and up-to-date guide to identifying and preventing the causes of power quality problems. The information is presented without heavy-duty equations, making it practical and easily readable for utility engineers, industrial engineers, technicians, and equipment designers. This in-depth resource addresses the essentials of power quality and tested methods to improve compatibility among the power system, customer equipment, and processes.
Coverage includes:
- Standard terms and definitions for power quality phenomena
- Protecting against voltage sags and interruptions
- Harmonic phenomena and dealing with harmonic distortion
- Transient overvoltages
- Long-duration voltage variations
- Benchmarking power quality
- International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards
- Maintaining power quality in distributed generation systems
- Common wiring and grounding problems, along with solutions
- Site surveys and power quality monitoring
