Description
Practical and easy to read, this compact volume provides the industry's most comprehensive guide to electrical equipment and control systems. Filled with helpful checklists and references, Hydro Plant Electrical Systems is an indispensable tool for engineers as well as operations and maintenance personnel.
Features & Benefits
- Comprehensive coverage of hydroelectric generator operation, testing, and maintenance
- Detailed guidance on transformers, including factory and field testing, inspection, and international standards
- Covers controls, protective relaying, switchgear, surge protection, and UPS systems
- Provides step-by-step instructions for commissioning and start-up of hydro projects
- Includes checklists, references, and practical tips for plant engineers and O&M personnel
- Compact, accessible format suitable for on-the-job reference
Audience
- Hydroelectric plant engineers and operators
- Operations and maintenance personnel at hydro facilities
- Electrical engineers working in power generation
- Project managers overseeing hydroelectric equipment installation and commissioning
- Students and educators in power engineering and hydroelectric systems
Contents
- Introduction
- Hydroelectric generator basics
- Testing generators before commissioning
- Scheduled inspection outages for hydroelectric generators
- Transformers at hydroelectric plants
- Factory and field testing of liquid-immersed transformers
- Inspection and maintenance testing of liquid-immersed transformers
- International test standards for transformers
- Dry transformers at hydroelectric plants
- Controls and protective relaying
- Testing unit control switchboards in the factory and field
- Surge protection
- Batteries at hydropower plants
- Uninterruptible power supply systems
- Bus systems
- Low-voltage switchgear for hydropower plants
- Start-up and commissioning of a hydroelectric project
- Sources
- Index
Details
Type: Hardcover
Size: 7x10
Pages: 194
Published: 1999
ISBN: 9780965176538
