Electric Power Transformer Engineering, 3rd edition

Book Preface

It is appropriate that I first acknowledge my appreciation to Professor Leo Grigsby for inviting me to prepare the chapter on power transformers for the first edition (2001) of his now very popular Electric Power Engineering Handbook. From that evolved the recognition that two chapters from the 2001 handbook, those for (1) substations and (2) transformers, could be extracted, expanded, and be offered as stand-alone books while retaining the composite association with Professor Grigsby’s overall work. Thus, the first edition of Electric Power Transformer Engineering was offered by CRC Press in 2004, the second edition in 2007, and now this third edition.

As editor of the book, my charge to the chapter authors was to direct their messages to engineers who know the basic physics, or applications, or possess a hands-on working knowledge of power transformers. Thus, it is believed that all persons with a power transformer background experience, be they merely curious, seasoned professionals, or acknowledged experts, will find much in the book with which to relate, and that all such readers will glean material appropriate to their individual degree of expertise.