Product Description

This TATA import covers basic fundamentals and design of electrical transformers, including materials, specifications and standards. Designed as a working reference for professional engineers and technicians, it will also appeal to graduate level students and researchers. Written by a team of BEHL’s top power engineers, it details transformer workings from first principles through the latest in computer automation and cutting edge design. (20050501)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #193156 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 614 pages

Review
Review by: S. R. Walk, Maine Maritime

For the experienced professional or the new graduate student, this book provides a broad compendium of advanced yet practical knowledge in the art of power transformer design. The individual authors provide clear and concise presentations of electrical and physical design criteria, and advanced techniques for manufacturing, testing, and monitoring. It is impressive that there is ample theoretical background for the reader's better understanding of the many standardized and recommended design calculations. The authors reference all relevant international standards for power transformer materials, design, testing, installation, and monitoring. They are to be commended for discussing various component failure modes and describing maintenance and condition monitoring needs. They address the full range of power transformers, including modern specialty transformers such as rectifier transformers and power reactors. The occasional slip in grammar or word usage is easily forgiven when balanced against the wealth of practical material available in this one volume. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. (Choice )

From the Back Cover
IN-DEPTH COVERAGE OF MODERN TRANSFORMERS

Written by top engineers at one of the world's largest power equipment manufacturers, this rigorous tutorial details design methods for transformers with improved fault-resistance and greater load capacity. Covering the design, manufacture, operation, and maintenance of every major type of transformer, Transformers provides cost-effective solutions engineers need to improve the performance of their systems. This resource offers comprehensive coverage of:

• Materials, specifications, and standards
• Controlled shunt reactors
• Design and manufacture of short-circuit-proof transformsrs
• High voltage bushings
• RLA and predictive/preventive transformer maintenance
• Automated and computerized productivity enhancements

About the Author
Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHAT) is India’s largest power equipment manufacturer. It has 14 manufacturing units, 4 power sector regional centers, 8 service centers and 18 regional offices, as well as project sites spread across India and the globe.

Customer Reviews

OK for Trafo Materials
Books which give details on how transformers are actually built are few and far between. I have a suspicion that writers who are in a poition to provide details do not do so because they want to keep the knowledge 'secret'. This book, along with some others, gives some, but not enough practical details or examples on how to design a transformer. It also goes into academic details which are largely irrlevant as they are not covered in enough depth to be useful. I think some of the authors just liked impressing their colleagues with how complicated theire end of the business was. However the section on manufacturing teh trafo tank itself was good, as was the covberage of the raw materials used to make the trafo itself.



Yet there is very little complicated about 90% of the building of a trafo, and the 10% that is complicated is really only of interest to the manufacturer.

The book which gives most details about trafos is Feinberg ' Modern Power Transformer Practice' although it is badly laid out and suffers from some units being in metres, others in mm2 etc.

The J& P Trafo book is readable and useful, although limited in Design details