Book description
Gas-insulated transmission lines (GIL) is an established high voltage
technology used when environmental or structural considerations restrict
the use of overhead transmission lines. With an overview on the
technical, economical and environmental impact and power system
implications of GIL, this guide provides a complete understanding of its
physical design, features and advantages. The author illustrates how to
evaluate when GIL would be the best solution during the planning
sequence and how to apply GIL in the electricity power network.
Other key features include:
- operation and maintenance requirements with information on
repair processes, duration, and different monitoring systems
enabling the achievement of reliable and safe operation;
- a wide variety of realized applications from across the world
over the past 35 years, illustrating typical fields of application
through descriptions of real projects that the author has worked
on; and
- future application possibilities in a smart transmission
network, used for solving power transmission problems.
This is an essential reference for engineers involved in planning and
executing bulk power transmission projects overground, in tunnels or
buried. It offers a concise summary of all areas of the subject and is
the perfect aid for utility power engineers, consulting engineers and
manufacturers worldwide.
Hermann Josef Koch, Principle Expert, Power
Transmission, Siemens, Germany
Mr Koch currently works in
the field of high voltage switchgear and high voltage transmission
lines with Siemens in Germany. He became Principal Expert after
over-seeing the installation of the first second generation GIL (gas
insulated transmission lines) in Geneva, Switzerland in 2001. Since
then he has worked on many projects with Siemens.
Mr Koch created
a successful tutorial Gas Insulated Substations with the IEEE PES
Substations Committee, which has been presented in more than twenty
countries including the USA, Canada, South America and India. He has
published 149 articles and written chapters in two leading books on
GIL, The Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering and the Substation Handbook (CRC Press).
