Description
Book SynopsisThis text covers the increasingly important area of emergency control, covering the operational planning measures necessary to ensure that a power system generating or transmitting electricity will survive any disturbance with minimum impact on consumers, plant and current operation.
Trade Review"...Knight offers advice on dealing with a system under short-term instabilities..." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 4, December 2001)
Table of ContentsPreface.
Introduction and Contents.
Disturbances in Power Systems and their Effects.
Some General Aspects of Emergency Control.
The Power System and its Operational and Control Infrastructure.
Measures to Minimize the Impact of Disturbances.
The Natural Environment -
Some Disturbances Reviewed.
Restoration.
Training and Simulators for Emergency Control.
Plant Characteristics and Control Facilities for Emergency Control, and Benefits to be Obtained.
Systems and Emergency Control in the Future.
Appendix 1: Some Major Interconnected Systems Around the World: Existing and Possible Developments.
Appendix 2: Glossary of Useful Terms.
Appendix 3: Some Useful Mathematical and Modelling Techniques in Power Systems Studies.
Index.
