Industrial Power Systems 1st Edition

This one is up there with the Grainger book. Very good stuff. My instructor knew the author personally. I guess that's why he recommended Khan. You wont regret this one. The next step from here would be relay protection.

This is a good book; it has experience and technical information. I recommend this book

I am a practicing electrical engineer and I have worked in design of power and control systems for 19 years.I am also a registered professional engineer and took the examination in electrical engineering. If there is a book (both good and bad) dealing with industrial electrical design, I probably own a copy. I have also authored a book on the subject myself called the Industrial Power Systems Design and Specification Handbook published by Fairmont Press in 1998 (it is no longer in print). The reference to Beeman in my review title refers to the 1955 book published by Donald Beeman on Power Systems. Beeman and his team worked for GE back in the "golden age" of the 1950's where the best minds for application engineering took the time and the effort to present the nuts and bolts of Power System Engineering in an easy to understand fashion for engineers and technicians. Westinghouse did the same with its book on power distribution engineering (I think that it is still available from the ABB).Sadly,GE never decided to update their reference book written by Beeman and I am not so sure they would (even though GE has very bright people) because of their ability to "sell" this knowledge rather than ensure that people like me (who have to apply their medium voltage distribution products) have a good starting point. Please understand that I am not "anti-business" and understand that the manufacturer has a right to expect that the people picking his products have done their homework. However, up until now, no one has felt it was "important" enough to review the fundamental calculations that power engineers should be able to do BEFORE they pick equipment or evaluate equipment performance (especially in medium voltage systems which behave more things to worry about). In this regard, Khan gives you the foundation you need. The choices of data and examples in Khan's book ensure that the engineer has a non-biased means to develop good calculations that are not unduly biased by either limited experience or by an equipment manufacturer. The problem with most books supposedly geared to "practical" application of electrical engineering knowledge is they are either too superficial (the author does hand-waving and you cannot see how they get from point "A" to point "B") or they are far too complicated for the average user to comprehend and hence have little use.Khan's book does not fall into that trap.There is a very good balance on the level of detail provided here.An example: This is one of the few texts that actually discusses impedance grounded systems and actually gives you the tables that are critical to applying the information (capacitive charging data).It is obvious that the authors scoured the archives of IEEE publications to get the seminal papers (such as those written in IEEE Industrial Applications Society Transactions)that are the "bread and butter" for good calculations.The authors deserve praise for picking the critical topics and then giving the reader enough information to be successful in design.Another example:the authors take some time to explain protective relaying and then give the reader a starting point for the proper settings.Khan's book is the definite analog to John Matthew's book (which was written for the commercial building business).If you notice,John Matthew's text sells on e-Bay or Amazon in its original form for twice what I paid for it when I bought it (John Matthew's book was re-issued by Chapman and Hall). Khan's text has the same potential to become a clasic as Beeman or Matthews.The only thing I would have liked to have seen is information associated with a brief summary relating the design calculations to the selection of actual equipment.In John Matthew's book, he takes the user from a load list through actual load calculations and finally to equipment selection in a "capstone" design problem. I refer to this type of example time and time again. This criticism is not necessarily the end of the world because if you do not have a good theoretical foundation, you are completely at the mercy of suppliers and manufacturer's representatives who may or may not understand what they are doing. Also, equipment technology does change over time as do the dimensions of equipment (such as medium voltage circuit breaker technology). Having said all of this,it is important to note that the original author is unfortunately deceased.The people who put the book together obviously understood Mr. Khan's vision and should be congratulated for a job well done. However, the trap here is to try to "improve" the book in subsequent editions without the guidance of a power engineering master like Mr. Khan obviously was.Lest you doubt me,the classic work "Elements of Power Systems Analysis" (a classic undergraduate power engineering text in its 4th edition at the time I bought it) was "improved" by a new author who added lots of matrix calculations that overly complicate the subject and leave a recent graduate unable to "see the forest from the trees". Sometimes,less is more and the current undergraduate textbook sham in power engineering is a tragic example of where we have devolved to.As another review pointed out for a text called Power Systems Analysis by Bergen and Vittal, the authors simply do not understand what graduates need to know in order to do their first job. Very few professors have the active consulting engineering experience required to balance theory with practice.If they decide to go to a second edition for Khan's book,they need a person of the late Mr.Khan's experience and his clarity for understanding what is important from what is trivial.

This book fills a much needed niche between theory and practical application. It will prove a great reference for inexperienced engineers. As an experienced (30 years) professional I would have liked the depth of subject treatment to be more than twice it is.

Must read for Engineers!! This book is what put it all together for me. I am a registered Professional Engineer with nearly 30 years experience and this book is what I go to for design reference. I also give a copy to junior engineers who are interested in amping up their career.

Excellent book for the new or seasoned power electrical engineer. This book covers everything you need to know, and stuff you probably didn't know, to design nearly all aspects of industrial power systems. The one thing it doesn't do is go too in depth about any of the subjects, which isn't that detrimental to this book. Coverage of most of the subjects is sufficient for quick, accurate understanding, and the authors point out many, many additional references for the curious reader to investigate. This is a great summary book, and the summaries make some seemingly complex topics easier to understand. It allows a new concept to be more readily absorbed without getting bogged down by the minute details, but the summaries are still sufficient enough at least to mention those details that need to be considered in a design. Many of the chapters include an exercise for understanding, which is great. There are other books, classic books, that another reviewer has pointed out that are excellent, too. However, I highly recommend this book.

This book, tries to cover too much. It's overpriced!! The most you can do with this book is use it as a quick reference to find applicable IEEE/ANSI standards. I would not recommend this book.