Electrical Power Engineering: Reference & Applications Handbook

Electrical Power Engineering - Reference & Applications Handbook is a single source of all information needs in the subject area of power engineering. It aims at bridging the gap between concept and application. The book acts as a handy reference to all those in the field of design and application, protection and testing, production, project implementation or maintenance, in addition to the sales and purchase of these projects.

The book is divided in 5 parts:

Electric Motors, Drives and Energy Saving

Switchgear Assemblies and Captive (Emergency) Power Generation

Voltage Surges, Over-voltages, Circuit Interrupters and Grounding Practices

Power Capacitors and Reactive Power Controls

Busbar Systems

K C Agrawal, an electrical engineer and senior member of IEEE, USA, had had more than 33 years experience in different capacities in academics, PSUs, multinationals like Crompton Greaves and NGEF, a unit of AEG, West Germany, handling electric motors and generators and then running his own industry ECS Pvt. Ltd. for 24 years, manufacturing Switchgear Assemblies, Motor and Power Control Centres, Power Factor Control Panels, Static Drives, Bus Systems and undertaking Consultancy and Contracting jobs. He is a well acclaimed professional and industrialist in his field. Carrying and research activities on his shop floor and acquiring knowledge from different souces have been has basic traits and are presented through this book. He has also authored well acclaimed books Shaping India of our Dreams and Crusade India .