Understanding Power Quality Problems Voltage Sags And Interruptions

Authored by Math H.J. Bollen, Understanding Power Quality Problems Voltage Sags And Interruptions is a comprehensive technical book that provides power engineers and students with the theoretical background and analytical techniques needed to understand, predict, and mitigate the two most significant power disturbances: voltage sags and interruptions. The book is widely considered a foundational text in the field of power quality.
Key Content
The book delves into various aspects of power quality, focusing on the specific phenomena of voltage sags and interruptions. It covers the following topics:
• Fundamentals of Power Quality: It defines power quality, voltage quality, and different power quality phenomena. It also discusses related power quality standards.
• Analysis and Mitigation: The book provides in-depth analysis of voltage sags and interruptions, including their causes and effects on various types of equipment. It offers practical, mathematical techniques to characterize, analyze, and find solutions for these disturbances.
• Power System Reliability: It explores methods for evaluating power system reliability and how it relates to long and short interruptions.
• Equipment Behavior: It provides insights into how different types of equipment, from induction motors to power electronics, behave when subjected to voltage sags.