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Request reference book: Power Distribution side of the power plants and utilities.
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Request reference book: Power Distribution side of the power plants and utilities.

Request reference book: Power Distribution side of the power plants and utilities.

(OP)
I'm comfortable with the electrical generation side of the transformer: Thermo & piping, steam, boiler & nuke part of getting the water hot are simple. Pretty good with the EMF and generator design part of the equation since I've worked inside them doing welding and frame mod's on both water-cooled, air-cooled, and H2 cooled generators and exciters. (I will never pretend to be fully up to any type of design-level EE knowledge, but I know the theory and practice well enough to at least have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express the night before the job starts ...)

unfortunately, I'm really weak in the electrical distribution half of the transformer: Don't recognize the gadgets the other side of the fence, their spec's, their function is protecting against lightening, grounds, simple high voltage isolation, local and remote switching very high currents on and off at the very high voltages downstream of the first and second transformers from the generators, their default and failure modes, the reason the transformer yards and regional distribution works the way it does, etc.

What's the best reference book?

Is the a similar book for the other utility systems (sewage, gas, water) that were developed in the same historical period as the electrical power companies under the Edison, Westinghouse, Coffin, and Insull?

The Power Brokers by Maury Klein really only focuses on electrical power development. The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen strictly looks at the historical "invention" of the inventions and ideas behind steam itself. Maybe I'm looking for something like David McCullough's The Great Bridge (Brooklyn Bridge history) or Path Between the Seas (Panama Canal history) for the public utilities industry between 1890 and 1950?

RE: Request reference book: Power Distribution side of the power plants and utilities.

Here are some titles on Distribution Engineering:

1955
Donald Beeman, Industrial Power system Handbook

1966
Eustace C Soares, Grounding Electrical Distribution Systems for Safety

Juan M Gers, Protection of Electricity Distribution Networks (IEE Power and Energy Series)
1993
IEEE Std 141-1993 Recommended Practice for Electric Power Distribution for Industrial Plants (Red Book)
2008
J R Dunki-Jacobs, F J Shields,Conrad St.Pierre, Industrial Power system Grounding design Handbook,2008 www.groundingdesignbook.com

Shoiab Khan – Industrial Power System, CRC Press,2008
2014
Turan Gonen, Electric Power Distribution Engineering ed3.0, CRC Press,2014
Thomas Allen Short, Electric Power Distribution Handbook (Electric Power Engineering Series ) ed2.0,2014

RE: Request reference book: Power Distribution side of the power plants and utilities.

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