Williams T., Armstrong K. EMC for systems and installations

Oxford: Newnes, 2000. — xiv, 312 p. — ISBN: 978-0750641678.This is a guide for the system designers and installers faced with the day-to-day issues of achieving EMC, and will be found valuable across a wide range of roles and sectors, including process control, manufacturing, medical, IT and building management. The EMC issues covered will also make this book essential reading for product manufacturers and suppliers - and highly relevant for managers as well as technical staff.
The authors' approach is thoroughly practical - all areas of installation EMC are covered, with particular emphasis on cabling and earthing. Students on MSc and CPD programmes will also find in this book some valuable real-world antidotes to the academic treatises.
The book is presented in two parts: the first is non-technical, and looks at the need for EMC in the context of systems and installations, with a chapter on the management aspects of EMC. The second part covers the technical aspects of EMC, looking at the various established methods which can be applied to ensure compatibility, and setting these in the context of the new responsibilities facing system builders.
EMC for Systems and Installations is designed to complement Tim Williams' highly successful EMC for Product Designers.Introduction: the EMC needs of systems.
The definition of electromagnetic compatibility.
The need for EMC.The EMC Directive’s requirements for systems and installations.
Introduction to the EMC Directive.
Applicability to systems and installations.
Routes to compliance.
Enforcement and the future of the EMC Directive.Management of systems EMC.
The EMC control plan.
The EMC test plan.
Documentation.
Purchasing.
Maintenance, upgrades and enhancements.
Training.Interference sources, victims and coupling.
Phenomena in the electromagnetic environment.
Coupling.
Mains harmonics.
EMC versus safety.Earthing and bonding.
The concept and practice of earth.
The impedance of the earth connection.
Creating the meshed facility earth.Cabinets, cubicles and chambers.
The purpose of a metallic enclosure.
Shielding theory.
Shielding techniques.
Architectural shielding.Cabling.
Coupling to, from and within cables.
Cable screening techniques.
Unscreened cables.
Installing cable systems.Filtering.
Attenuating noise at the interfaces.
Mains filters.
Filtering other lines.Lightning and surge protection.
The EMC problems of lightning.
Basic LPS design for safety and structural protection.
Additional LPS measures to protect electronic apparatus.In situ testing.
Emissions.
Immunity.Appendixes:
Systems EMC procedures checklist.
Determining performance criteria.
Some published case studies.
The EU and EEA countries.Glossary.

Index.