IEEE Power & Energy Magazine - September/October 2021 - 95

fault analysis theory
an updated edition
T
THIS ISSUE'S " BOOK REVIEW "
column discusses Power Systems
Modelling and Fault Analysis: Theory
and Practice, second edition, written
by Nasser Tleis. The reviewer
writes, " This book is suitable for graduate
level power engineering students
as well as upper division undergraduate
students who have had a first course
in power engineering. "
Power Systems Modelling
and Fault Analysis:
Theory and Practice
By Nasser Tleis
This new resource by Dr. Nasser Tleis
provides a valuable update to the first
edition of Power Systems Modeling and
Fault Analysis. He is the vice president of
Power Transmission Planning at Dubai
Electricity and Water Authority. He has
a Ph.D. degree from the University of
Manchester Institute of Technology. Tleis
has more than three decades of experience
working in the utility industry.
Power Systems Modeling and Fault
Analysis focuses on fault analysis, providing
the theory behind the modeling
and solution approaches used in industry
practice. This edition builds on
the solid foundation of fault-analysis
techniques from the first edition with
updates to the presentations of the fundamentals
for apparatus modeling and
fault-analysis techniques. Like the first
edition, the second includes a discussion
on international standards for short
circuit analysis. The text includes several
numerical examples to help the reader
learn how to apply the techniques.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPE.2021.3088706
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objectives, such as droop control and
virtual synchronous machines, and
follows up with a discussion of their
fault responses.
The presentation on fault-analysis
As was the case with the first edition,
this edition first introduces power
systems' faults and the application of
symmetrical components for fault analysis.
Next, the book provides in-depth coverage
of modeling techniques for power
apparatus, including overhead lines,
underground cables, rotating machines,
and inverter-based power sources.
This edition has additions to the section
on modeling underground cables
and major updates related to modeling
the fault behavior of wind turbines,
photovoltaic generation, and other inverter-based
resources. The section on
the short circuit behavior of inverterbased
resources includes a discussion
of grid codes related to the behavior of
generation resources. The book also
introduces the emerging topic of gridforming
inverters, starting with a thorough
discussion of different control
techniques now includes techniques
for performing fault analysis for large
systems with fault-current sources
that behave as voltage sources, such
as synchronous generators, alongside
inverter-based resources that behave
as current sources. This addition is
a valuable resource for both practicing
engineers and students learning
fault-analysis techniques. The book
includes a discussion on developing
network equivalents along with
practical approaches for dealing with
model data uncertainties. There is a
brief discussion of risk assessment
and safety considerations.
The second edition includes an
updated presentation on approaches
to control short circuit current levels,
both from an operational viewpoint
and from a power-system-planning
and design viewpoint. The chapter includes
a discussion on different types
of fault-current limiters including superconducting
fault-current limiters.
This book is suitable for graduatelevel
power engineering students and
upper-division undergraduate students
who have had a first course in power
engineering. The book will also be of
interest to practicing engineers seeking
a better understanding of modern faultmodeling
and analysis techniques, especially
for systems with a high penetration
of inverter-based generation sources.
-Brian K. Johnson
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