Title: Electrical Engineer's Reference Book, Sixteenth edition Author(s): M.A. Laughton, D.J. Warne (Editors) Pages: 1504 Publisher: Newnes Publication date: 2002 Language: English Format: PDF ISBN-10: 0750646373 ISBN-13: Description: For ease of use, this edition has been divided into the following subject sections: general principles; materials and processes; control, power electronics and drives; environment; power generation; transmission and distribution; power systems; sectors of electricity use.
New chapters and major revisions include: industrial instrumentation; digital control systems; programmable controllers; electronic power conversion; environmental control; hazardous area technology; electromagnetic compatibility; alternative energy sources; alternating current generators; electromagnetic transients; power system planning; reactive power plant and FACTS controllers; electricity economics and trading; power quality.
* An essential source of techniques, data and principles for all practising electrical engineers
* Written by an international team of experts from engineering companies and universities
* Includes a major new section on control systems, PLCs and microprocessors
Review
'For its concise and concentrated text and data and for its outstanding arrangement and indexing it is essential to more-or-less any electrical engineering office and laboratory and so will also prove extremely useful for any library collection serving practising or theoretical electrical engineers.' Reference Reviews
Title: Electrical Engineer's Reference Book, Sixteenth edition