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Protection and Switchgear

Bhavesh Bhalja


The book describes in detail the protection principles of each element of the power system network. The details of relay design and relay setting have also been covered. Further, the book contains a wide coverage of digital/numerical relaying scheme. Besides the relays, the book covers detailed theories of circuit breaking phenomenon and the construction and working of switchgears.

The book is pedagogically rich with detailed relay and circuit diagrams, numerous solved examples, review questions, multiple-choice questions, and numerical exercises in each chapter. At the end of the book, an additional chapter on recent developments in protective relays covers the application of AI techniques in protective relays and discusses the concept of synchronized phasor measurements, wide area protection, along with other important topics.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publish Date: Dec 21st, 2011
  • Pages: 490
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.40in - 6.20in - 1.10in - 1.45lb
  • EAN: 9780198075509
  • Categories: General

About the Author

Bhavesh Bhalja is currently Professor and Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, A D Patel Institute of Technology, New Vidyanagar, Gujarat. A Ph D from IIT Roorkee, he has close to a decade of teaching experience.

R. P. Maheshwari is currently Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Roorkee. A Ph D from Roorkee University (now IIT Roorkee), he have over 15 years of teaching experience.

Nilesh Chothani is currently Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, A D Patel Institute of Technology, New Vidyanagar, Gujarat. His areas of interest are digital protection, system modelling and simulation, and artificial intelligence techniques.