Product Description
High quality electrical service is everyday more stringent in utilities and industrial facilities around the world. One of the main players to achieve this is the protection system that has to be reliable, fast and with a good cost/benefit ratio. This book refers to most aspects of electrical protections, with emphasis in Distribution Systems. Protection of generation and transmission systems is also treated in the text. References to modern topics like the Distributed Generation, Smart Grid and Standard IEC 61850 have been introduced. The book was written by two well experienced engineers who combined a comprehensive theoretical background with examples and exercises to ease the following of the ideas to the readers. The book surely will be valuable to pre and postgraduate students, design, maintenance and consulting engineers as well as instructors looking for proper references.
About the Author
Juan M. Gers obtained his BSc in Electrical Engineer at University of Valle, Colombia, in 1977. In 1981 he finished an MSc at the University of Salford in England and his PhD in 1998 at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. He has been working as consulting engineer and university lecturer for over 30 years. Dr. Gers is a Chartered Engineer of the IET and Member of the IEEE. Ted Holmes graduated from Queen Mary, University of London in 1950 and joined the CEGB, where he worked for over 35 years. A Fellow of the IEE and a Chartered Engineer, he is co-author of the book Electricity Distribution Network Design. He passed away in July of 2006 after fighting with a long illness.