Electrical Machines Drivers And Power Systems /6th Edn

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.

Features
NEW—Chapter on harmonics—Reveals how they affect the behavior of capacitors, inductors, cables, transformers, and the quality of electric power.
NEW—Unique method involving harmonics.
NEW—Revised chapter on active, reactive, and apparent power.
NEW—Updated chapter on the fundamental elements of power electronics—Contains switching converters and pulse with modulation (PWM) techniques.
NEW—Discussion of transmission and distribution solid state controllers.
Clear, practical approach.
Real-life equipment and machinery.
Multidisciplinary approach.
Industrial standards that apply to electrical equipment.
Practical applications presented with theory.
Unified approach to the study of electric power.
Changes to the entire concept of electric power.
Hundreds of line drawings and photographs.
Relationship between electric machines and power electronics.
Chapter-end categorized exercise sets.
“Formula” for solving electric circuits.

Contents
FUNDAMENTALS.
Units.
Fundamentals of Electricity, Magnetism and Circuits.
Fundamentals of Mechanics and Heat.
II. ELECTRICAL MACHINES AND TRANSFORMERS.
Direct-Current Generators.
Direct-Current Motors.
Efficiency and Heating of Electrical Machines.
Active, Reactive, and Apparent Power.
Three-Phase Circuits.
The Ideal Transformer.
Practical Transformers.
Special Transformers.
Three-Phase Transformers.
Three-Phase Induction Motors.
Selection and Application of Three-Phase Induction Motors.
Equivalent Circuit of the Induction Motor.
Synchronous Generators.
Synchronous Motors.
Single-Phase Motors.
Stepper Motors.
ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC DRIVES.
Basics of Industrial Motor Control.
Fundamental Elements of Power Electronics.
Electronic Control of Direct-Current Motors.
Electronic Control of Alternating Current Motors.
ELECTRIC UTILITY POWER SYSTEMS.
Generation of Electrical Energy.
Transmission of Electrical Energy.
Distribution of Electrical Energy.
The Cost of Electricity.
Direct-Current Transmission.
Transmission and Distribution Solid-State Controllers.
Harmonics.
Programmable Logic Controllers.