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Balancing theory, practical knowledge, and real-world applications, this reference consolidates all pertinent topics related to power distribution reliability into one comprehensive volume. Exploring pressing issues in creating and analyzing reliability models, the author highlights the most effective techniques to achieve maximum performance at lowest cost. With over 300 tables, figures, and ...
Around the world, liberalization and privatization in the electricity industry have lead to increased competition among utilities. At the same time, utilities are now exposed more than ever to risk and uncertainties, which they cannot pass on to their customers through price increases as in a regulated environment. Especially electricity-generating companies have to face volatile wholesale ...
Of the "big three" components of the electricity infrastructure, distribution typically gets the least attention. ...
Fry electrical dangers with these proper grounding techniques. Every year, electrical accidents kill personnel who work on power lines and other high-voltage equipment. ...
Fry electrical dangers with these proper grounding techniques. Every year, electrical accidents kill personnel who work on power lines and other high-voltage equipment. ...
State Estimation in Electric Power Systems: A Generalized Approach provides for the first time a comprehensive introduction to the topic of state estimation at an advanced textbook level. ...
Vehicular Electric Power Systems: Land, Sea, Air, and Space Vehicles acquaints professionals with trends and challenges in the development of more electric vehicles (MEVs) using detailed examples and comprehensive discussions of advanced MEV power system architectures, characteristics, and dynamics. ...
Over the years, the electric power industry has been using optimization methods to help them solve the unit commitment problem. ...
Applied Mathematics for Restructured Electric Power Systems: Optimization, Control, and Computational Intelligence consists of chapters based on work presented at a National Science Foundation workshop organized in November 2003. The theme of the workshop was the use of applied mathematics to solve challenging power system problems. The areas ...
Power Structure examines the effects on economic performance of several key features of the U.S. electric power industry. ...
Starting from an overview on energy conversion and general concepts for Wind Energy systems, the concept, design and control of the electrical components are treated: generators, converters and storage devices. Much attention is spent on the implementation of Wind turbines and the requirements for power quality are ...
This is a comprehensive approach to Wind Turbine Generator Systems (WTGS) and their operation in dynamic electric power system analysis. The presented advanced models arose from the author´s research. ...
Small scale, tele-operated and autonomous robotic in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) projects are first, followed by electric power, communication, and transportation networks manufactured from lunar resources. ...
Due to the characteristics of electricity, power markets rank among the most complex markets operated at present. ...
The ASTM series on Engineering Dielectrics is devoted to a comprehensive presentation of topics related to electrical insulating materials that concern their dielectric properties, their use, and evaluation for application for electrical power and communication apparatus structures and devices. ...
Atmospheric ice takes a wide range of fascinating forms, all beautiful in their own ways but many posing severe risk to the security of overhead networks for electric power, communications and other systems. This comprehensive book documents the fundamentals of atmospheric icing and surveys the state of the art in eight chapters, each written by a team of ...
The problem is dynamic because water used today to generate electric power may alternatively be used tomorrow. The distinctive feature of this book is to provide a social planning perspective on the optimal use of water. ...
Working with electricity is highly charged with dangers. Make sure that your workers are well-insulated from ...
Working with electricity is highly charged with dangers. Make sure that your workers are well-insulated from ...
Solar electricity is a viable, environmentally sustainable alternative to the world’s energy supplies. In support, Dr. Krauter thoroughly examines the various technical parameters of photovoltaic systems. Study of performance and yield (including optical, thermal, and electrical parameters and interfaces) are analyzed. The net energy balance of photovoltaic systems – from production, operation ...