Electrical Wiring Industrial

As a retired electrician and proficient instructor with more than 30 years of practical experience, Stephen L. Herman is known for his reader-friendly approach. A seasoned author, Mr. Herman has written leading books on electricity and mathematics that are popular with students and instructors alike. For two decades Mr. Herman served as lead instructor for the Electrical Technology Curriculum at Lee College in Baytown, Texas, where he received an Excellence in Education Award from the Halliburton Education Foundation. He also taught at Randolph Community College in Asheboro, North Carolina, for nine years and helped pioneer an electrical curriculum for Northeast Texas Community College in Mount Pleasant, Texas. His additional publications include ELECTRIC MOTOR CONTROL, ELECTRICITY AND CONTROLS FOR HVAC/R, INDUSTRIAL MOTOR CONTROLS, UNDERSTANDING MOTOR CONTROLS, ELECTRONICS FOR ELECTRICIANS, ALTERNATING CURRENT FUNDAMENTALS, DIRECT CURRENT FUNDAMENTALS, ELECTRICAL STUDIES FOR TRADES, ELECTRICAL PRINCIPLES, EXPERIMENTS IN ELECTRICITY FOR USE WITH LAB VOLT EQUIPMENT, THE COMPLETE LABORATORY MANUAL FOR ELECTRICITY, and PRACTICAL PROBLEMS IN MATHEMATICS FOR ELECTRICIANS.

1. Plans and Sitework.
Construction Plans. Explanation of Plan Symbols. Sitework. Testing the Site for Grounding Requirements. Interpreting the Site Plan. Metrics (SI) and the NEC.
2. The Unit Substation.
The High-Voltage Section. Transformer Protection. Overcurrent Protection. Determining Transformer Fuse Size. The Transformer Section. The Low-Voltage Section. The High-Voltage Metering Equipment. Service Entrances. Transformer Maintenance.
3. Feeder Bus System.
Feeder Ducts. The Circuit-Breaker Cubicles. Plug-In Busway. Bus Plugs.
4. Panelboards.
Panelboards. Branch-Circuit Protective Devices. Panelboard Protective Devices. Power Panelboards.
5. Trolley Busways.
Three-Phase Trolley Busways. The Trolley Busway Runs. Lighting in the Manufacturing Area. Lighting in the Boiler Room.
6. Using Wire Tables and Determining Conductor Sizes.
Conductors. Insulation Type. Correction Factors. More than Three Conductors in a Raceway. Underground Conductors. Selecting Conductors for Equipment Installation. Calculating Conductor Sizes and Resistance. Long Wire Lengths. Calculating Resistance. Parallel Conductors. Testing Wire Installations. The American Wire Gauge (AWG).
7. Signaling Systems.
The Master Clock. The Program System. The Paging System. The Fire Alarm System.
8. Basic Motor Controls.
Two-Wire Controls. Three-Wire Controls. Schematic Symbols. Overload Relays. Schematics and Wiring Diagrams. Start�Stop Push-Button Control Circuit. Forward-Reverse Control. Basic Air-Conditioning Circuit. Timing Relays.
9. Motors and Controllers.
The Machines and Their Motors. Motor Types. Single-Speed Squirrel-Cage Induction Motor. The Wound-Rotor Induction Motor. Determining Direction of Rotation for 3-Phase Motors. Connecting Dual-Voltage 3-Phase Motors. Dual-Voltage Single-Phase Motors. Determining Direction of Rotation for Single-Phase Motors. Terminal Identification for Direct-Current Motors. Determining the Direction of Rotation of a Direct-Current Motor. Direct-Current Power Supplies. Variable-Frequency Drives.
10. Motor Installation.
Motor Nameplate Data. Motor Installation. Motor Tables. Direct-Current Motors. Single-Phase Alternating-Current Motors. Two-Phase Motors. Determining Conductor Size for a Single Motor. Overload Size. Overload Heaters. Determining Locked-Rotor Current. Short-Circuit Protection. Multiple Motor Calculations.
11. Power Factor.
Loading on Alternating-Current Circuits. Power Factor Measurement. The Synchronous Condensers. The Tie-In. Correcting Power Factor with Capacitors. Correcting Motor Power Factor. Installing Capacitors. Testing Capacitors.
12. Ventilating, Air Conditioning, and Other Facilities.
The Ventilator and Exhaust System. Special Terminology. The Cooling Equipment. Liquid Chillers. The Precipitation Unit.
13. System Protection.
System Protection. Circuit breakers. Circuit-Breaker Time-Current Characteristic Charts. Fuse Time-Current Characteristic Charts. Ground-Fault Protector Time-Current Characteristic Charts. Coordination.
14. Lightning Protection.
Atomic Structure. How Lightning Is Generated. Master Label. Building Protection. Safety Rules. References.
15. Site Lighting.
Lamp Selection. Illuminance Selections. Power Limitation. Luminaire Placement. Electrical Installation.
16. Programmable Logic Controllers.
Differences Between Programmable Logic Controllers and Personal Computers. Basic Components. Installing Programmable Logic Controllers. The Differential Amplifier.
17. Developing a Program for a PLC.
Assigning Inputs and Outputs. Converting the Schematic.
18. Fiber Optics.
Fiber Optics. Fiber-Optic Connectors. Fiber-Optic Lighting.
19. Hazardous Locations.
Equipment Approval. Intrinsically Safe Circuits and Equipment. Equipment. Seals. Circuit-Breaker Panelboards. Luminaires. Motor Controls. Flexible Cords and Receptacles. Hazardous Areas. Explosion-Proof Equipment.
20. Harmonics.
Harmonic Effects. Circuit-Breaker Problems. Bus Ducts and Panelboard Problems. Determining Harmonic Problems on Single-Phase Systems. Determining Harmonic Problems on 3-Phase Systems. Dealing with Harmonic Problems. Determining Transformer Harmonic Derating Factor.
Appendix: Electrical Specifications.
Code Index.
Index.