Power System Analysis and Design (English Edition. Original 3rd Edition)

Author: J. Duncan Glover
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Features: This book primarily introduces methods for power system analysis and design, enabling students to gain a clear understanding of a broad range of topics in power system engineering, especially by utilizing personal computers. It allows undergraduate students to fully grasp the fundamental theories and methods of power systems and provides corresponding training. The main features of this book include:
1. For electrical engineering students, this book offers comprehensive content, which is a distinguishing aspect of American textbooks compared to those in China. In China, the content of such books is typically divided into several separate textbooks, such as Power System Analysis, Power Engineering, and Fundamentals of Electric Energy Systems, none of which are as comprehensive as this one.
2. The content is up-to-date. This is the 3rd edition, reflecting the latest issues and research findings in the field of power systems, including problems and developments in power systems under a market environment.
3. Each chapter begins with a "Case Study" section, introducing historical background, recent advancements, and posing related questions related to the chapter's learning content. For example, the Case Study in Chapter 6, "Power Flow," provides a brief history of the visualization of power grids and power flow research and calculations. Visualization grids are a recent research achievement and represent the future direction of power system power flow calculations and studies. Issues such as power flow management, network control, line congestion in a market environment, three-dimensional network graphs, and market power are all very new. The Case Study in Chapter 13, "Transient Stability," discusses the major blackout in the United States, which helps students better understand the significance of this course and greatly stimulates their interest in learning.
4. The book comes with a CD-ROM containing the "PowerWorld Simulator." PowerWorld Simulator is an excellent software package capable of handling power systems of any scale and is widely used in universities, companies, government agencies, and power market personnel. The CD integrates computational examples, problems, and course projects on this platform, which is very helpful for students in learning and understanding concepts and methods.
5. Each chapter includes a rich set of exercises and problems to aid students in understanding the course content and fundamental concepts. In particular, the book also includes six course projects (Design Project), such as "Designing Power System Planning" and "Power Flow/S Research," which students can complete with the help of PowerWorld Simulator. In Chinese teaching, design projects are often canceled, but in reality, they are very important for university students. The design content in this book is worth for Chinese teaching. Both authors are from Northeastern University in the United States, which is renowned for its excellence in teaching and research in power systems. When writing this book, the authors also incorporated teaching achievements from other institutions. This book is suitable as a bilingual teaching textbook for undergraduate students in power systems or electrical engineering, as well as for related courses in mechanical and electrical engineering. It can also serve as a reference for graduate students or electrical engineers in related fields.
Zhou Shuangxi, Tsinghua University, May 2004