Principles of Power Engineering Analysis [Book Reviews]

The text provides valuable information that should be used for a three-credit graduate course in power engineering, while also providing a succinct review of undergraduate background information in extensive appendices. Detailed transmission line characteristics and transformer parameters are comprehensively derived and analyzed under both balanced and unbalanced conditions. The appendices provide a review of basics, such as electric and magnetic fields and matrix algebra, but also include material that may be new to graduate students, such as Carson´s earth-return correction factors. It presents graduate-level material on both transmission lines and transformer characteristics and a detailed treatment of symmetrical components. The book fills the need for a text with a physical approach to electric power engineering and is timely given the growth of electric transmission expansion and the crying need for personnel who understand both basics and some advanced concepts.