Reactive Power Compensation: A Practical Guide, 5/e (Hardcover)

The area of reactive power compensation is gaining increasing importance worldwide. If suitably designed, it is capable of improving voltage quality significantly, meaning that losses in equipment and power systems are reduced, the permissible loading of equipment can be increased, and the over-all stability of system operation improved. Ultimately, energy use and CO₂ emisson are reduced.

This unique guide discusses the effects of reactive power on generation, transmission and distribution, and looks at the compensation of existing installations in detail. It outlines methods for determination of reactive power and answers the questions that arise when controlling it, for example, at parallel operation with generators. There is also a chapter devoted to installation, maintenance and disturbances.

Key features include:

• A concise overview as well as deep specific knowledge on the segment power factor regulation and network quality
• Theory of reactive power compensation coupled with typical application examples such as car manufacturing, metal rolling and chemical works
• Chapter summaries with charts explaining how to put the theory into practice
• Coverage on the cost-saving aspects of this technology, including the efficient use of energy and the reduction of CO₂

A practical guide for electrical engineers and technicians in utilities, this is also essential reading for maintenance engineers, designers, electrical contractors, manufacturing companies, and researchers, also those in industry and planning agencies. Insightful and clear, the book will also appeal to senior undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering students and professors.

這本書是關於無功功率補償的全面資源，介紹了無功功率設備和裝置的設計、應用和操作。

無功功率補償的領域在全球范圍內越來越重要。如果設計得當，它能夠顯著改善電壓質量，減少設備和電力系統的損耗，增加設備的可允許負載，提高系統運行的整體穩定性。最終，能源使用和二氧化碳排放也會減少。

這本獨特的指南討論了無功功率對發電、傳輸和配電的影響，並詳細介紹了現有裝置的補償。它概述了無功功率確定的方法，並回答了在控制無功功率時出現的問題，例如與發電機的並聯運行。還有一章專門介紹了安裝、維護和故障。

主要特點包括：
- 簡明的概述以及對功率因數調節和網絡質量的深入具體知識
- 無功功率補償理論，並附有典型應用示例，如汽車制造、金屬軋制和化工
- 包含圖表的章節摘要，解釋如何將理論應用到實踐中
- 該技術節省成本的方面，包括能源的高效利用和二氧化碳的減少

這是一本針對公用事業的電氣工程師和技術人員的實用指南，也是維護工程師、設計師、電氣承包商、製造公司、研究人員以及工業和規劃機構的必讀之書。這本書深入而清晰，也適合高年級本科和研究生的電氣工程學生和教授閱讀。