Electrical System Designing Made Simple  (English, Paperback, Shankar Rajiv)

Electrical System Designing Made Simple (With CD) is a book that provides the know-how of electrical systems. It offers a CD, which provides very useful software for calculations to design a substation.

Summary Of The Book

Electrical systems are composed of interconnected electrical components that are designed to carry out a function or an operation.

Electrical System Designing Made Simple (With CD) covers all the essential points and factoids needed to design an electrical substation with expertise. A substation is, simply put, a constituent of an electrical transmission and generation system that is responsible for transforming high voltages to low, or vice versa.

Electrical System Designing Made Simple (With CD) broadly encapsulates topics like the General Aspects of Electrical Substation Designing, Transformers, Capacitor Banks, and HT and LT Cables. Chapters like Different Types of Loads, Installation, Maintenance, Location of Capacitor Bank and HT Circuit Breaker and Testing, amongst several others, are explained in detail in this comprehensive text.

It also answers questions related to environmental factors which have to be accounted for whilst designing an electrical substation, along with safety requirements and testing. The book also helps engineers decide on placing the substation indoors or outdoors, and also whether the load must be domestic or industrial.

The software provided on the CD makes calculations related to substation designing very easy by using in-built formulae, and providing the ability to print out the calculations for easy reference. It also helps to store and maintain system details of varying equipment in an orderly manner. This software has an added bonus feature that assists the user in preparing several specifications that are required to be sent with a tender document.

About Rajiv Shankar

Rajiv Shankar is the Senior Manager of the Electrical Department at Krishak Bharati Cooperative Limited.

He has also authored Energy Auditing in Electrical Utilities.

Rajiv Shankar graduated from Malaviya National Institute of Technology in Jaipur and obtained his Master’s degree (M.Tech) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. Apart from occupying the position of a senior member of IEEE, he has almost twenty five years of experience in installing, maintaining and testing electrical systems.