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Insulation coordination for power systems [Book Review]

Article  in  IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine · April 2001

DOI: 10.1109/MEI.2001.917540 · Source: IEEE Xplore

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 B O
by
John J. Shea
Insulation Coordination
for Power Systems
A.R. Hileman
Marcel Dekker, Inc.
270 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016
http://www.dekker.com
Phone +1 800 228 1160
Fax +1 212 685 4540
ISBN 0-8247-9957-7
767 pp.; $195.00 (Hardcover), 1999
Properly coordinated insulation in
the power transmission/distribution
system is critical for achieving high lev-
els of long-term reliability at a low cost
required by electric utilities. Deregula-
tion only increases the importance of
power system reliability.
Insulation Coordination for Power
Systems is a comprehensive and practi-
cal textbook presenting the latest de-
velopments in power system insulation
coordination. Overhead transmission
line designers will find this book in-
valuable. The author describes factors
affecting power transmission reliabil-
ity, such as line clearances, overhead
shield wires, arrangement of insula-
tors, tower grounding, and substation
shielding. There are excellent chapters
on switching overvoltages, traveling
waves, lightning flash, breaker protec-
tion, and metal oxide surge arrestors.
Numerous charts, graphs, and equa-
tions to guide the designer accompany
insightful descriptions in each chapter.
This book is intended to be a graduate
student textbook and a reference text.
Each chapter contains problems, re-
lated to the chapter, for students to
solve. The book also comes with two
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O K R E V I
floppy disks containing programs re-
lated to the problems in each chapter.
These DOS-based programs are partic-
ularly useful when performing engi-
neering calculations since they involve
numerical calculations not easily per-
formed by hand. One disk is used for
switching surges and the other for
lightning calculations.
This book is most suitable for use as
a textbook in a power engineering
course or for transmission line insula-
tion designers.
Dielectric Relaxation and
Dynamics of Polar Molecules
V. I. Gaiduk
World Scientific Publishing Co.
P.O. Box 128, Farrer Road
Singapore 912805
http://www.worldscientific.com
Phone: +1 466 5775
Fax: +1 467 7667
ISBN# 981-02-2123-1
635pp.; $101.00 (Hardback), 1999
The complex permittivity ε de-
scribes how electromagnetic radiation
interacts with a material. Wave propa-
gation in polar dielectric materials is
important to study because of the very
significant practical applications. Ra-
diation propagation through the atmo-
sphere is a polar media due the
presence of water vapor (polar mole-
cule) in the air. Other polar materials
and mixtures of polar materials play
important practical roles in science and
engineering. By studying the change in ε
with applied frequency, molecular dy-
namics and the structure of molecules
in the fluid can be determined.
This book, broken into five parts,
contains the basis for dielectric theory,
molecular models, and interpretation
of dielectric spectra of polar fluids.
The author begins by introducing the
fundamentals of dielectric spectros-
copy and rotational and dielectric
spectra. In Part Two he details the new
E W S
dynamic method used throughout this
book. It is not clear, however, as to the
significant differences between this
and other methods. The theory relates
the complex dielectric susceptibility X
(ω) to molecular dynamics of reorient-
ing polar molecules, consisting of a sys-
tem of particles controlled by an
intermolecular potential U where U ex-
ists during an average lifetime pro-
duced by neighboring molecules. A
comparison to other theories would
have been appropriate. Free-rotation
models make up the third part. These
models discussed are the extended ro-
tational diffusion, confined rotator,
and extended diffusion models. Part
four deals with field models (elastic
bond, constant field, cosine squared,
and the hat model). The practical ap-
plications are contained in part five.
They are nonassociated polar liquids
like fluoromethanes, water, and polar
gases. These consist of calculating the
dielectric spectra using the models in
the book and comparing them to ex-
perimental results from other sources.
Some of the calculations are made at
different temperatures.
This is predominantly a theoretical
treatment of dielectric spectroscopy.
The author could have included a
quantitative treatment and perhaps
more applications. There were limited
experimental results comparing the
new model calculations to existing ex-
perimental data and other calculation
methods. However, some of the appli-
cations showed a comparison to older
experimental data taken from other
sources. You will certainly find this an
interesting and useful reference text-
book if you work in the field of dielec-
tric spectroscopy.
Electrical Cables for Power
and Signal Transmission
O.I. Gilbertson
John Wiley & Sons
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