Power System Stability and Control

by Prabha Kundur

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
ISBN: 007035958X

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Book Description

Voltage stability is a major concern in the planning and operation of electric power systems. This is the first book to provide a clear, in-depth explanation of voltage stability, covering both transient and longer-term phenomena and presenting proven solution to instability problems.

An essential tool for all electric power and utility engineers, the book describes equipment characteristics for transmission, generation, and distribution/load subsystems of a power system, together with methods for the modeling of equipment.

Readers will find static and dynamic computer simulation examples for both small equivalent power systems and for a very large power system, plus an account of voltage stability associated with HVDC links. They will also get helpful planning and operating guidelines, computer methods for power flow and dynamic simulation, and descriptions of actual voltage instability incidents.

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Customer Reviews

The book is well organized and useful as good reference for power engineers as well as POWER system students who are interested in the stability area.

But author does not discussed the effect of FACTS devices on stability and their modelling issues in this edition. I hope this may be included in the next edition.

This book is simply the best of stability power system problem solves. I Purchased because his contents realy helps all of any questions that I could have. All subjects are contained in the book and in few chapters didactic and easily.

I think this book is a valuable one for both practricing engineers and academecians. It provides basic theory of synchronous machines and devlops models for the same. It gives an over view of fundmentals of power system stability (transient and small signal. It includes modeling of generators, governors, exciters and stabilizers in the simulation of system stability. Also covered in the text is the voltage stability and several examples.

I recommend to both graduate students and power system engineers in the field.