Handbook of Electrical Power Equipment Testing and Maintenance (Paperback)

Paperback. A transformer, breaker, or cable almost never fails out of nowhere.Insulation absorbs moisture and ages. Contacts erode. Connections loosen and heat. Gas evolves quietly in the oil long before a relay ever has to operate. The warning signs are usually there - the question is whether a maintenance program is built to catch them, and whether the reference behind it treats a substation as one connected system.Many programs still test on a fixed calendar, or wait for something to trip, treating each measurement as an isolated pass or fail rather than a point on a trend. That is harder to defend now that a documented, condition-based maintenance program has become an expectation, and it leaves gaps exactly where diagnostics have moved fastest: statistical interpretation of gas-in-oil data, low-frequency cable diagnostics succeeding older withstand tests, frequency-response analysis, and microprocessor-based protection's own testing needs. Guidance for it is usually scattered across manuals, standards documents, and single-topic books, with no consistent method connecting them.This handbook connects them. For every major class of substation and industrial power equipment, it works through the same sequence: the physics behind a test, the connection and procedure, the criteria used to judge the result, a worked calculation with realistic numbers, and the failure modes the test can and cannot detect - so a value on a report becomes a decision: accept, trend, investigate, repair, or replace.What this handbook helps you doSee results as evidence, not a checkbox. Understand the physics behind insulation resistance, power factor, partial discharge, turns ratio, timing, and contact-resistance tests.Work through realistic calculations. Every test method is paired with a worked example using field-realistic numbers, built to serve as a template.Interpret oil and gas data with confidence. Follow the statistical approach now used to read dissolved-gas trends, alongside furan analysis and moisture assessment.Test transformers, breakers, switchgear, and cables hands-on. Run turns-ratio and winding-resistance tests, contact timing and vacuum-interrupter checks, and low-frequency cable diagnostics replacing older withstand methods.Commission and test protection systems end to end. Verify relay functions with current injection, check instrument-transformer circuits, and test DC control circuits and batteries.Catch what testing alone won't tell you. Use infrared thermography, airborne ultrasound, and online monitoring between outages, and a structured troubleshooting process when something still fails.Inside the bookChapters move from maintenance philosophy and safety, through insulation diagnostics, transformers, breakers, switchgear, cables, relays, grounding, and batteries, closing with thermography and reliability management, plus appendices of correction formulas and a standards cross-reference.Who it is forField test technicians and engineers, facility and utility maintenance and reliability engineers, commissioning agents, and advanced engineering students preparing for the field, with a working knowledge of basic circuit theory, phasors, and three-phase systems. The book supplements, and does not replace, governing codes and standards, manufacturer instructions, or a qualified person's judgment; the procedures involve hazardous voltages and should be performed only by trained, authorized personnel.Add this connected, current reference to your library and start turning test results into decisions you can explain, defend, and act on with confidence. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…