The book continues the successful approach of the first edition by
progressing from simplicity to complexity. It places the emphasis
first on understanding the underlying physical principles before
proceeding to more complex models and algorithms. The reader will
appreciate the authors' accessible approach as the book is illustrated
by over 400 diagrams and a large number of examples.
Power System Dynamics: Stability and Control, Second Edition is
an essential resource for graduates of electrical engineering. It is
also a clear and comprehensive reference text for undergraduate
students, and for practising engineers and researchers who are working
in electricity companies or in the development of power system
technologies.
Professor Jan Machowski received his MSc and PhD
degrees in Electrical Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology
in 1974 and 1979, respectively. After obtaining field experience in
the Dispatching centre and several power plants, he joined the
Electrical Faculty of Warsaw University of Technology where presently
he is employed as a Professor and Director of the Power Engineering
Institute. His areas of interest are electrical power systems, power
system protection and control.
In 1989-93 Professor Machowski was a Visiting Professor at
Kaiserslautern University in Germany where he carried out two research
projects on power swing blocking algorithms for distance protection
and optimal control of FACTS devices.
Professor Machowski is the co-author of three books published in
Power System control and Stability (WPW, 2007). He is also a co-author
of Power System Dynamics and Stability published by John Wiley &
Sons, Ltd (1997).
Professor Machowski is the author and co-author of Power System
stability and power system protection commissioned by the Polish Power
Grid Company, electric Power Research Institute in the United States,
Electrinstitut Milan Vidmar in Slovenia and Ministry of Science and
Higher Education of Poland.
Professor Janusz Bialek received his MEng and PhD degrees in
Electrical Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology in 1977
and 1981, respectively. From 1981 to 1989 he was a lecturer with
Warsaw University of Technology. In 1989 he moved to the University of
Durham, United Kingdom, and since 2003 he has been at the University
of Edinburgh where he currently holds the Bert Whittington Chair of
Electrical Engineering. His main research interests are in sustainable
energy systems, security of supply, liberalization of the electricity
supply industry and power system dynamics and control.
Professor Bialek has co-authored two books and over 100 research
papers. He has been a consultant to the Department of trade and
Industry (DTI) of the UK government, Scottish Executive Elexon, Polish
Power Grid Company, Scottish Power, Enron and Electrical Power
Research Institute (EPRI). He was the Principal Investigator of a
number of major research grants funded by the Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council and DTI.
Professor Bialek is a member of the Advisor Board of Electricity
Policy Research Group, Cambridge University, a member of the Dispute
Resolution Panel for the Single Electricity Market Operator, Ireland,
and Honorary Professor of Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.
Dr Jim Bumby received his BSc and PhD degrees in Engineering
from Durham University, United Kingdom, in 1970 and 1974,
respectively. From 1973 to 1978 he worked for the International
Research and Development Company, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on
superconducting machines, hybrid vehicles and sea-wave energy. Since
1978 he has worked in the School of Engineering at Durham University
where he is currently reader in Electrical Engineering. He has worked
in the tear of electrical machines and systems for over 30 years,
first in industry an then in academia.
Dr Bumby is the author or co-author of over 100 technical papers and
two books in the general area of electrical machines/power systems and
control. He has also written numerous technical reports for industrial
prizes including the Institute of Measurement and Control prize for
the best transactions paper in 1988 for work on hybrid electric
vehicles and the IEE Power Division Premium in 1997 for work on direct
drive permanent magnet generators for wind turbine applications. His
current research interests are in novel generator technologies and
their associated control for new and renewable energy systems.
