Power System Analysis And Design

ABOUT THE BOOKThis revised, enlarged and updated edition is specifically designed to meet the needs of undergraduate students studying core or advanced courses covering transmission, distribution, stability, load flow, surge phenomena, fault studies. design of transmission system, and other related aspects of power systems.
In this revised edition, Smart Grid, Analysis of Steady State Stability and Facts Controllers are added. Some more solved examples have been added. Data of EHV lines and HVDC lines has been updated. A balance between mathematical details
and qualitative discussions has been maintained throughout to provide in depth
understanding of the problems and their solutions. Up to date coverage of the following topics includes:

• Optical Fibre Conductors
• Load Flow Computations in Large Systems
• Current Chopping
• Tyrite Surge Arresters
• Arrester Rating and Location
• Insulation Coordination 
• EHV Systems in India
• Earth Electrode, Station Earth
• High Phase Order (Multiphase Transmission)
• Regulating Transformer
• Metal Oxide Gapless Arresters
• Environmental Aspects in EHV and UHV Lines Design
• HVDC Systems in India • Voltage Stability
• Reliability of Transmission and Distribution Systems

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. B.R. Gupta, Retd. Professor of Electrical Engineering, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, is at present Visiting Professor and Consulting Engineer at the same college. He has a long and distinguished academic career with more than 35 years' of teaching experience. A prolific writer and the author of many books, Prof. Gupta has also won several awards for his research work. He is a Senior Member of IEEE (USA) and Member of the Institution of Engineers (India).