Series capacitor banks offer unique benefits in electric power systems, particularly in

transmission. To engineer, design, and produce reactive compensation systems is a

complex process that involves multiple engineering disciplines.
The authors researched and wrote this book to provide power system engineers with
a comprehensive resource on the subject of series compensation. The readers for
whom this book has been written include power system planning engineers,
managers, consultants, university professors and graduate-level students, and others
who share an interest in this specialized field of electrical engineering.
This book is unique in that it brings together information from diverse sources for the
purpose of providing a comprehensive overview of pertinent mathematical models,
practical applications, and an assessment of decades of experience by utilities that
have used series compensation strategies.
This 595-page book contains more than 400 equations, with more than 300 figures
including plots, charts, graphs, and drawings. The equations and figures serve to
explain the mathematics and analytical approaches that are fundamental to
evaluating needs and establishing specifications for series capacitor banks.
Citing the example of a representative North American long-distance transmission
network, the book takes the reader through the process of determining the
specifications for building a series capacitor bank. For engineers who wish to
reproduce the results of the computer simuilations and analytical models incorporated
in the book, complete reference data is included in the appendices.
In the concluding chapter, the authors consider the emergence of new technologies
impacting the design and use of series compensation.