Electrical Calculations and Guidelines for Generating Station and Industrial Plants

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  • Hardback: 304 pages
  • Published: September 2011
  • ISBN: 978-1-4398550-3-4
  • Publisher: CRC Press

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"This is really a practical, hands-on book for the working engineer."

—Phillip Wheeler, former Southern California Edison supervising electrical apparatus engineer and regional IEEE PES/IAS leader

A very helpful tool for solving circuit protection problems, Electrical Calculations and Guidelines for Generating Stations and Industrial Plants presents and simplifies the theory and 132 calculations that electrical engineers typically need to understand in order to support operations, maintenance, and betterment projects for generating stations and other large industrial facilities. The book begins with a cursory review or refresher of basic electrical theory. It then provides additional insights into electrical theory and sets the conventions that will be utilized throughout the remainder of the book.

Table of Contents

The Basics

Three-Phase History

Three-Phase System Advantages

Theory

Magnetism

Voltage and Current

Resistance

Inductance

Capacitance

Circuits

Time Constants

Reactance

Series Impedance

Parallel Impedance

Transformers

Electrical Systems

Generating Station Electrical Configurations

Three-Phase Basics

Power Transformer Connections

Instrument Transformer Connections

Electrical Studies

Conversions

Transformer Tap Optimization

Conductor Parameters

Study Accuracy

Voltage Studies

Power Transfer Calculations

Two-Generator System

Ohmic Short Circuit Calculations

The Per-Unit System

Per-Unit Short Circuit Calculations

Auxiliary System Protection

Switchgear Overcurrent Coordination

Overcurrent Schematic

Current Transformer (CT) Safety Ground

Motor Overcurrent

Motor Control Center (MCC) Source Overcurrent

Bus Tie Overcurrent

Transformer Secondary Side Overcurrent

Transformer Primary Side Overcurrent

Residual Ground Protection

High Impedance Grounding

Transformer High-Speed Protection

Bus Transfer Schemes

Generator Protection

Generator Relay Data

High Voltage Switchyard Configurations

High Voltage Switchyard Protection Concerns

Generator/Turbine Abnormal Operation Withstand Times

Generator Protective Functions and Settings

Electrical Apparatus Calculations

Buses

Cable

Switchgear Circuit Breakers

Generators

Metering

Motors

Transformers

Electrical Operating Guidelines

Operation of Large Generators

Operation of Large Power Transformers

Operation of Large Electric Motors

Operation of Auxiliary System Switchgear

Electrical Maintenance Guidelines

Generator Electrical Maintenance

Transformer Electrical Maintenance

Motor Electrical Maintenance

Switchgear Circuit Breaker Maintenance

Insulation Testing of Electrical Apparatus

Bus and Motor Control Center (MCC) Maintenance

Protective Relay Testing

Battery Inspection and Maintenance

Personnel Safety Grounds

Generator Voltage Regulators and Power System Stabilizers (PSSs)

Reviews

"This is really a practical, hands-on book for the working engineer".

-- Phillip Wheeler, former SCE supervising electrical apparatus engineer, who is active in the regional IEEE PES/IAS leadership.

Author/Editor Biography

Tom Baker is currently a consulting engineer for Sumatron in support of large generating stations. He has performed protection reviews on over 30,000 megawatts of nuclear, coal, oil, and gas generating units; consequently, is well aware of protection oversights that can impact the productivity of large generating stations and covers them in the book. He has developed and presented 29 four-day hotel and on-site comprehensive electrical power engineering seminars for utility protection engineers, nuclear generating stations, municipal utilities, cooperatives, investor owned power producers, and engineering companies. The 4-day seminars are approved by IEEE for educational credit. He holds two patents and developed the "EE Helper Power Engineering" software program.

Previously he worked for Southern California Edison (SCE) for 36 years and had progressive responsibility as a protective relay technician, metering engineer, protection engineer, distribution engineer, apparatus engineer and for the last 15 years with SCE he was the chief electrical engineer for 12 large fossil fuelled generating stations.

Mr. Baker completed a master’s degree in electrical power engineering and management.

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