Industrial Power Distribution

This book provides a broad overview of electricity utilization in the industrial environment. Industrial Power Distribution serves as both an introductory textbook and a comprehensive reference. Based on over 20 years of experience in electric power system design and analysis, author Ralph E. Fehr III strikes a careful balance between application and theory, and provides insight to answer "why" instead of just "how."

Features include:

• references to standards, codes, and design practices
• extensive examination of transformer connections
• concise yet thorough coverage of short circuit analysis
• practical guide to raceway design
• in-depth exploration of ladder logic
introduction to power quality issues

Each chapter concludes with questions to verify the comprehension of key concepts and problems to check the ability to perform realistic power system design and analysis.

Industrial Power Distribution provides a broad overview of electricity utilization in the industrial environment. It serves as both an introductory teaching book and a comprehensive reference. Based on over 20 years of experience in electric power system design and analysis, the author strikes a careful balance between application and theory, and provides insight to answer “why” instead of just how.

Chapter topics cover utility source, medium voltage distribution, balanced fault calculations and protective equipment selection, unbalanced faults, raceway design, switchgear and motor control centers, ladder logic, motors and motor starting, shunt capacitors, and power quality.

For use by industry professionals in review courses or as a reference manual.

Ralph Fehr received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1983 and the M.E. degree in electrical engineering (power) from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1987. He has worked in the generation engineering field, designing power distribution and control systems for nuclear and fossil-fired power plants. Mr. Fehr also has worked for electric utilities for more than 15 years in the operations, planning, and design areas, including transmission, distribution, and substation engineering.

Teaching has always been an important aspect of Mr. Fehr's career. On an adjunct basis, he has taught courses ranging from computer operating systems to mathematics to power system analysis for several institutions, including the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, St. Petersburg Junior College, and the University of South Florida at Tampa. Since 1996, he also has taught a review course for candidates for the professional engineer examination through the Florida Engineering Society.

Mr. Fehr is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is a registered professional engineer in New Mexico and Florida. His biography is published in Who's Who in Science and Engineering.