Electrical Machines, Drives, and Power Systems

✍ Scribed by Wildi, Theodore

• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 927
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For courses in Motor Controls, Electric Machines, Power Electronics, and Electric Power. This best-selling text employs a theoretical, practical, multidisciplinary approach to provide introductory students with a broad understanding of modern electric power. The scope of the book reflects the rapid changes that have occurred in power technology over the past few years-allowing the entrance of power electronics into every facet of industrial drives, and expanding the field to open more career opportunities.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
1. Units......Page 8
2. Fundamentals of Electricity, Magnetism, and Circuits......Page 20
3. Fundamentals of Mechanics and Heat......Page 57
4. Direct-Current Generators......Page 76
5. Direct-Current Motors......Page 103
6. Efficiency and Heating of Electrical Machines......Page 129
7. Active, Reactive, and Apparent Power......Page 145
8. Three-Phase Circuits......Page 171
9. The Ideal Transformer......Page 196
10. Practical Transformers......Page 210
11. Special Transformers......Page 238
12. Three-Phase Transformers......Page 256
13. Three-Phase Induction Machines......Page 278
14. Selection and Application of Three-Phase Induction Machines......Page 322
15. Equivalent Circuit of the Induction Motor......Page 347
16. Synchronous Generators......Page 360
17. Synchronous Motors......Page 394
18. Single-Phase Motors......Page 416
19. Stepper Motors......Page 442
20. Basics of Industrial Motor Control......Page 464
21. Fundamental Elements of Power Electronics......Page 499
22. Electronic Control of Direct-Current Motors......Page 574
23. Electronic Control of Alternating-Current Motors......Page 608
24. Generation of Electrical Energy......Page 682
25. Transmission of Electrical Energy......Page 725
26. Distribution of Electrical Energy......Page 761
27. The Cost of Electricity......Page 792
28. Direct-Current Transmission......Page 811
29. Transmission and Distribution Solid-State Controllers......Page 841
30. Harmonics......Page 874
References......Page 906
Appendix......Page 912
C......Page 920
D......Page 921
H......Page 922
P......Page 923
R......Page 924
V......Page 925
Y......Page 926

✦ Subjects

Science;Engineering;Electrical Engineering