About Book:

        The demand for the generation and transmission of large amounts of electric power today, necessitates transmission at extra-high voltages.  In developed countries like the USA, power transmission voltages have reached 765kV or 1100kV, and 1500kV systems are also being built.  In our country, 400kV ac power systems have already come into operation, and in another 10 years time, every state is expected to be linked by a National Power Grid operating at 400 kV or at 800 kV.  At this juncture, a practising electrical engineer or a student of electrical engineering is expected to possess knowledge of high-voltage techniques and should have sufficient background in high-voltage engineering.  Unfortunately, at present, very few textbooks in high-voltage engineering are available, compared to those in other areas of electrical engineering;  even among these, no single book has covered broadly the entire range of topics in high-voltage engineering and presented the material in a lucid manner.  Therefore, an attempt has been made in this book, to bring together different topics in high-voltage engineering to serve as a single-semester course for final-year undergraduate students or postgraduate students studying Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Applied Physics.  This book is also intended to serve power engineers in the industry who are involved in the design and development of electrical equipment and also engineers in the electricity supply and utility establishments.  It provides all the latest information on insulating materials, breakdown phenomena, overvoltage, and testing techniques.  It is also useful for self-study by engineers in the field of electricity utilities and in the design, development testing of electrical apparatus, transmission line hardware, particle acceleration, etc