Description
Covers recent advances and developments in a wide range of basic, applied, and industrial areas of gaseous dielectrics in 14 sections: basic physics of gaseous dielectrics, basic mechanisms, modeling, gas breakdown and it relation to vacuum and liquid breakdown, breakdown characteristics under short time fronts and fast transients, electrode processes and surface discharge phenomena, transmission lines and electromagnetic fields health issues and measurements, corona, high voltage DC insulation utility experience with GIS, gas insulated substations, reliability of GIS/failure mechanisms, dielectric diagnostics of gas-insulated equipment, and reports of discussion groups. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.