Electric Power Transformer Engineering, Third Edition [Book Reviews]

In his preface to this third edition, James Harlow, the editor, reflects on the way that this most extensive work, covering all aspects of transformers, has evolved from the single chapter he prepared for the Electric Power Engineering Handbook produced by Leo Grigsby in 2001. Nearly a dozen years have gone into its evolution from that single chapter, presumably produced by his own hand, to create a book of 25 chapters assembled from the contributions of no fewer than 47 acknowledged experts in their respective fields. The editor has done well. Not only does this book provide so many of the answers required from an extensive reference work, but these have been assembled in a very logical and readable manner. The book can be of value to a student with a general power engineering background who has a wish to pursue a transformer-related research topic, a project manager responsible for the procurement and building of a new substation, or a plant manager with day-to-day responsibility for the operation of the substation.