Protective Relaying: Principles and Applications, Second Edition (POWER ENGINEERING)

By J. Lewis Blackburn and Thomas J. Domin

Book Overview

Maintaining the features that made the previous edition a bestseller, this book covers large and small utility systems as well as industrial and commercial systems. The author provides a completely new treatment of generator protection in compliance with governmental rules and regulations and supplies expanded information on symmetrical components. The text delineates individual protection practices for all equipment components; furnishes an overview of power system grounding, including system ferroresonance and safety grounding basics; analyzes power system performance during abnormal conditions; describes the relationship of input source performance to protection; and much more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824799186
• ISBN13: 9780824799182
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.2" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

The Definitive Book on the Subject

The definitive book on the subject. It is intended for the profdssional who is in charge of protecting the electric power system. In the new third edition, the book increases its discussion of protection of additional types of equipment including generator (intertie, generator, excitation systems), capacitor bank protection, underfrequency and undervoltage load shedding, special protection schemes, DC tripping scheme designs, fault location and event reports. It is also upgraded to cover the latest technologies in microprocessor applicaions, including digital based devices and designs. This is the definitive book on the subject. Mr. Blackburn has been a force in the subject for many years and has keep this book current throughs its multiple editions. He provides a real-life perspective on the problems that real working engineers face in their day to day activities.

A must to have for anyone to start on this....

I have been using this book from 1st edition up to the third and it provides both a theoretical and application background so the reader can use it as the base to go for more specific info or for manufacturers applications guides.

An outstanding book

In order to appreciate this book, one must understand the history behind power system protective relaying. As the previous reviewers have mentioned, the two classic bibles in protective relaying is the Westinghouse Protective Relaying book and the Westinghouse T & D book. Lewis Blackburn put the former book together while he worked at Westinghouse and he had a hand in the second book as well. My father attended the Westinghouse training courses in the 1950's and his instructor was Lew Blackburn. Over time, Mr. Blackburn became a family friend and I grew up listening to them talk about the electric power industry and learned about the subject at the feet of the master. Even though I went into motors instead of relaying, I still enjoyed reading this book.After Mr. Blackburn retired from Westinghouse, he became a consultant and proceeded to put the material in this book together. It was a labor of love, for a lot of people have said that the practice of protective relying is like black magic because there are many correct ways to protect a system, they all have problems but it is up to the practitioner to determine the best solution for a given situation. Mr. Blackburn poured his years of experience and expertise into this book. He tried to do this in a systematic manner in order to reduce the amount of ambiguity usually associated with the black arts. I believe he has succeeded. I would agree with the others that the second edition was a letdown from the first, but then again, most first editions are more informative because authors wrote "their" book with the first edition, the following editions are ususally to answer the critics and publishers.

This is my "go to" book on most protection issues.

Being in System Protection for the past 6 years I have collected quite a nice library of books related to my field of protective relaying. I have used Blackburn's book until the pages are dog eared. It is generally the first book I grab off the shelf to start reviewing a protection topic or to refresh my memory. Blackburn did an excellent job with straight forward practical examples and applications...as you might expect from one of the masters in the field. This book along with the old Westinghouse Applied Protective Relaying book (relaying Bible) and the ABB T & D book (formerly Westinghouse book) cover the majority of topics a protection enginerd needs.

A very good reference for the beginning power engineer.

I have found this book to be very helpful while resolving problems associated with installation and startup of a small generation facility. I would have been lost and could not have contributed to the solution of problems had I not studied this book in my spare time. The senior engineers also stated that this was a very good book (it cleared up a few things for them).