Handbook of electrical engineering : for practitioners in the oil, gas, and petrochemical industry

A practical treatment of power system design within the oil, gas, petrochemical and offshore industries. These have significantly different characteristics to large-scale power generation and long distance public utility industries. Developed from a series of lectures on electrical power systems giv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Sheldrake, Alan L.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ, USA : Wiley, ©2003.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN1591247705
9781591247708
9780470864784
0470864788
0470013893
9780470013892
0471496316
9780471496311
1280554118
9781280554117
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 624 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Estimation of plant electrical load
  • Gas turbine driven generators
  • Synchronous generators and motors
  • Automatic voltage regulation
  • Induction motors
  • Transformers
  • Switchgear and motor control centres
  • Fuses
  • Cables, wires and cable installation practices
  • Hazardous area classification and the selection of equipment
  • Fault calculations and stability studies
  • Protective relay coordination
  • Earthing and screening
  • Variable speed electrical drivers
  • Harmonic voltages and currents
  • Computer based power management systems
  • Uninterruptible power supplies
  • Miscellaneous subjects
  • Preparing equipment specifications
  • Summary of the generalised theory of electrical machines as applied to synchronous generators and induction motors.