Electrical Energy Efficiency: Technologies and Applications

The improvement of electrical energy efficiency is fast becoming one of the most essential areas of sustainability development, backed by political initiatives to control and reduce energy demand.

Now a major topic in industry and the electrical engineering research community, engineers have started to focus on analysis, diagnosis and possible solutions. Owing to the complexity and cross-disciplinary nature of electrical energy efficiency issues, the optimal solution is often multi-faceted with a critical solutions evaluation component to ensure cost effectiveness.

This single-source reference brings a practical focus to the subject of electrical energy efficiency, providing detailed theory and practical applications to enable engineers to find solutions for electroefficiency problems. It presents power supplier as well as electricity user perspectives and promotes routine implementation of good engineering practice.

Key features include:

• a comprehensive overview of the different technologies involved in electroefficiency, outlining monitoring and control concepts and practical design techniques used in industrial applications;
• description of the current standards of electrical motors, with illustrative case studies showing how to achieve better design;
• up-to-date information on standarization, technologies, economic realities and energy efficiency indicators (the main types and international results);
• coverage on the quality and efficiency of distribution systems (the impact on distribution systems and loads, and the calculation of power losses in distribution lines and in power transformers).

With invaluable practical advice, this book is suited to practicing electrical engineers, design engineers, installation designers, M&E designers, and economic engineers. It equips maintenance and energy managers, planners, and infrastructure managers with the necessary knowledge to properly evaluate the wealth of electrical energy efficiency solutions for large investments. This reference also provides interesting reading material for energy researchers, policy makers, consultants, postgraduate engineering students and final year undergraduate engineering students.

Professor Angelo Baggini, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
Angelo Baggini is currently aggregate professor of Electrical Engineering in the Industrial Engineering Department at University of Bergamo. Since 1997 he has been a member of CEI TC14, 64 and 311, and he has been secretary of CENELEC TC14 since 2007. He is also a member of IEC SMB-SG1. Angelo Baggini has authored over 200 technical and scientific papers in journals as well as international conference papers, and his book Handbook of Power Quality was published by Wiley in 2008.

Dr Andreas Sumper, Electrical Engineering Department, CITCEA, Univeritat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Andreas Sumper is lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Escola Universitària d'Enginyeria Tècnica Industrial de Barcelona (EUETIB), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He is also the team leader for power system research at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, IREC. His research interests include energy efficiency, power quality, power system studies and distributed generation. Andreas Sumper has authored over 100 technical and scientific papers.