High Voltage Engineering” Has Been Written For The Undergraduate Students In Electrical Engineering Of Indian And Foreign Universities As Well As The Practising Electrical Engineers. The Author Developed Interest In The Field Of High Voltage Engineering When He Was A Student At The Govt. Engineering College, Jabalpur. It Used To Be Thrilling To Observe Large Metal Spheres Flashing Over, Corona Phenomenon On A Wire Placed Along The Axis Of A Cylinder And Then Recording The Corona Loss, Controlling The Wave Shapes Of Impulse Voltages Etc.

The Author Has Taught The Subject At The Delhi College Of Engineering For Quite A Number Of Years And While Preparing Lecture Notes He Referred To Some Of The Books And Journals And Some Literature From The Internationally Famed Manufacturers Of High Voltage Equipments E.G. Haefely, Tettex Etc. The Lecture Notes So Prepared, Thus, Have A Touch Of Both The Class Room Requirements And A Practising Engineer’s Requirements. In This Edition, Zeroth Chapter On Electric Stress Estimation And C Ontrol Has Been Added Where In Different Methods Viz. Finite Difference, Finite Element, Charge Simmulation Method And Surface Charge Simulation Methods Have Been Discussed Per Estimation Of Metric Stresses In Complex Dielectric Media And Electrode Configuration.

A Brief View Of Optimisation Of Electrode Configuration Is Also Given In This Chapter. Chapter 1 Deals With The Breakdown Of Gases, Liquids, And Solid Materials. Even Though It Has Not Been Possible To Explain The Physical Phenomenon Associated With Breakdown Of The Materials, With Accuracy And Precisiveness, An Attempt Has Been Made To Bring Out Some Of The Theories Advocated By Researchers In This Field In A Simple Lucid And Organised Way. Chapters 2 And 3 Discuss The Generation Of High D.C. And A.C. Voltages And High Impulse Voltages And