Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070702233 ISBN 13: 9780070702233

Publisher: Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, 2010

"An attempt has been made in this book, to bring together different topics in high voltage engineering to serve as a single semester course for final year undergraduate students or postgraduate students studying Electrical Engineering. This book is also intended to serve power engineers in the industry who are involved in the design and development of electrical equipment and also engineers in the electricity supply and utility establishments. It provides all the latest information on insulating materials, breakdown phenomena, overvoltage, and testing techniques. "

About the Author:

"M S Naidu was Professor in the Department of High-Voltage Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. A PhD from the University of Liverpool, he served as a visiting scientist at the High Voltage Laboratory of the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. He had also given lectures at many highvoltage laboratories in West Germany, Switzerland and France. Professor Naidu was a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) and also a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering. His research interests included gaseous insulation, circuit breaker arcs, pollution under HVDC, etc. He published many research papers and authored Advances in High Voltage Breakdown and Arc Interruption in SF6 and Vacuum. Recently, another book on Gas Insulated Substations authored by him and was published in 2008. Professor Naidu passed away in February, 2002. V Kamaraju obtained his PhD in High-Voltage Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was formerly the Professor of EEE and the Principal at the JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. He was a visiting professor at Middle East Technical University, Gaziantep, Turkey, during 1981–82. He has done extensive research in the area of liquid and solid dielectrics, composite insulation and partial discharge. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India). He has published many research papers and has been a consultant to various industries and to the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board. He has published Electrical Distribution Systems and Linear Systems: Analysis and Applications during 2006–2008. He received the Best Teacher Award from the Government of Andhra Pradesh, India, in 2001. At present, he is Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Mahavir Institute of Science and Technology, Hyderabad, India. "