Electrical Installation Handbook 5th edition

It is an indispensable tool for all those who are interested in electrical plants.

Volume 1: Protection and control devices

This volume deals with the following subjects:

• general characteristics of the circuit breakers;
• derating tables for circuit-breakers (temperature and altitude);
• co-ordination tables;
• special applications (direct current, 400 Hz and 16 2/3 Hz, 1000 Vdc and 1000 Vac);
• electrical switchboards;
• examples with advanced protection functions.

Volume 2: Electrical Devices

This volume deals with the following subjects:

• protection and dimensioning of feeders;
• protection and switching of lighting circuits, generators, motors and transformers;
• power factor correction - protection and switching of capacitors bank;
• protection of human beings against direct and indirect contacts - distribution systems;
• calculation of short-circuit current;
• harmonics.