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Electrical Insulation in Power Systems

Article in IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine · August 1998

DOI: 10.1109/MEI.1998.689277 · Source: IEEE Xplore

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 new polymer, or polymers blended with
non-polymeric fillers, such as glass or
carbon fiber. The reasons for blending
polymers include higher performance
through synergism, to achieve desired
properties, to aid the recycling process,
to adjust a composition to customer
specifications, and to dilute for reduced
cost. This book is broken down into
three sections dealing with
multicomponent polymers. The first
section, “Basic Concepts in
Multicomponent Polymer Materials,”
describes the science of both polymer
blends and composites, where poly-
mers are combined with other poly-
mers as well as non-polymeric
materials. The physical characteristics
of multicomponent systems are de-
tailed, some of which include: blending
and grafting, determining domain size
and structure, phase transitions,
Takayanagi models, miscibility, meth-
ods of causing phase separation, and
fracture behavior. Section I1 describes
classes of polymer surfaces and inter-
faces and methods for characterizing
the interface and means for strengthen-
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bon fiber, plasma treatment, and
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An appendix of polymer abbreviations
is also included. The book is well writ-
ten and is easy to read and contains very interrupters. Basic knowledge of vac-
useful information in the area of devel-
oping engineering polymer blends from
either multicomponent polymers and or
non-polymeric fillers.
ELECTRICAL [NSULATION
IN POWER SYSTEMS
by N. H. Malik, A. A. Al-Arainy, and
M. I. Qureshi
Marcel Dekker, Inc.
270 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016-0602
400 pages - $145
This book is one of the few recent source to anyone involved in vacuum
texts dealing with the broad range of in- technology at any level. Appendices
sulation materials used in power sys- contain useful information on the vapor
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tems, including vacuum, gas, liquid,
solid, and composite materials. After a
brief introduction to the dielectric prop-
erties of materials, there are chapters re-
lated to specific types of insulation
materials, such as gas dielectrics, air, SF6,
liquid dielectrics, solid dielectrics, vac-
uum dielectrics, and composite dielec-
trics. Particular issues related to high
voltage cable are discussed in a separate
chapter. Testing methods are discussed
in the final three chapters on generation
and measurement of testing voltages,
new diagnostic techniques, such as auto-
mated testing, optical probes, and space
charge measurement, and insulation test
procedures. This book is a good collec-
tion in one place of the basic information
in this area and should be useful to prac-
ticing engineers as well as to students
learning about the field.
-K. E Schoch,]K
FOUNDATIONS
OF VACUUM
AND TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE
Edited by J.M. Lafferty
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
605 Third Ave.
NewYork, NY 10158-0012
Numerous analytical material char-
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commercial products, such as vacuum
uum techniques is thus a prerequisite to
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This textbook would be a valuable re-
pressure of various solid and liquid ele-
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breadboarding and measurements, ca-
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-C. Harper
OF POLYMERIC
RHEOLOGY SYSTEMS
by Pierre J. Carreau, Daniel C. R.
DeKee, and Raj l? Chhabra
Hanser-Gardner Publications
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The rheological properties of poly-
mers, particularly viscosity and flow
characteristics, are important in the
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