Electrics & Electronics

The present title was specificity prepared and released for the today's and future professionals  in the field of protective relaying as well as for any interested people possessing some minimal engineering skills. The publication has been written in a bit unconventional way - it uses the MERIT 2000, the MATLAB-based simulation tool, to offer readers the experience in understanding and subsequent implementing of various protective relaying designs.

There are many books dedicated to the protective relaying - most of them provide very good background on the principles of power relaying and faults occurring in power systems; however, almost all of them assume that the readers are mostly interested in learning how exactly the protective relaying approaches can be used in power systems. The authors of this book took a bit different approach assuming that readers are in learning how the protective relays work and understand their basic working principles.

Taking this goal in consideration, this book tries to turn the learning into the design experience with the readers using MATLAB from the very beginning. Note that we would not consider this book a substitute for any textbook on the fundamentals of protective relaying; this is more a complementary source of information.

The control of the electrical power with the power electronic devices is becoming more and more important. There are so many new classes of electric motors developed that are being enabled by power electronics. The present handbook has been intended to provide readers with a good reference source that would be both concise and very useful for individuals, from students to real professionals in the field of electrical engineering.

The publication includes so wide range of various topics comprising the subject of power electronics, combining many regular, traditional, topics with some new and innovative technologies being at the edge of the latest technological advances. The emphasis has been made by the author of this book on the practical applications of all technologies discussed within the publication in order to enhance it's core value to the readers and make the understanding of the material a bit easier.

The presentations provided in the book are tutorial in their nature and there are also many examples on the practical use of the technologies described in the book, consisting of three parts - the first part provides a brief overview of the semiconductor devices, the second part explains the operating principles of circuits, while the last part describes the power electronics applications...

This world popular Handbook was prepared by internationally recognized and respected industry experts. It should be used as the complete reference book to be used by the ocean engineering professionals. The publication offers readers a truly comprehensive coverage of all most important areas of both theory and practice of oceanic as well as coastal engineering and associated technology.

The main body of the present publication has been perfectly organized for easy reference and contains of six major sections, covering marine hydrodynamics and control of marine vehicles, description of the various position control systems used on the offshore ships, some modeling considerations, various aspects of the computational intelligence, examples and description of the application of the fiber optics technology in oceanography and, finally, the technology for  current measurement. The book was specifically designed to be utilized as a traditional handbook in which readers would be able to find the answers to all their question related to the ocean engineering by consulting the corresponding article.

This handbook may also be used in many different ways since it offers snapshots of the current state-of-the-art in various relevant subjects. The text part of the book is supplemented with hundreds of data tables and figures providing additional useful info.

It is quite obvious that the electric energy is one of the key components in a community of today. The author of the present handbook made a good attempt to take an in-depth approach to the variable-speed and constant-speed electric generator systems operating in stand-alone mode and/or at power grid capacities.

The book contains nearly all parameter expressions and models that may be required for the modeling as well as for the design and control, with the text part being supplemented with so many informative practical case studies for better assimilation of the material by the readers. The book has been fully educated to the electric machine/power systems people. It starts with the topics of WRIC, i.e. wound rotor induction generators, providing technical info on them, as well as on the steady-state transients, vector, direct power control and testing issues.

Then there are chapters addressing the CRIG, i.e. cage rotor induction generators, integrated starter alternators, linear reciprocating and linear progressive motion alternators, and so many other issues relating to the variable speed generators, so this publication will be very useful to any people dealing with the design, building, installation and subsequent operation and maintenance of the subject machinery.

Another textbook on electronics for the newcomers. The book will help beginners understand some basic electronics concepts and also let them know how the basic equipment like diodes, voltage multipliers, amplifiers and other equipment are constructed and how they work. It will be very useful for hobbyists who are willing to dabble, and the authors do not go too deep in mathematics so reading the book is not that difficult.

The publication will also be good for the professionals to check and/or refresh their technical skills. Brief contents - Abbreviations and symbols used; Alternate and direct current; Basic circuits and electric circuit laws; Capacitors and resistors; Capacitor and RC circuits; Coils and inductances; Transformers and semiconductors; Neon lamps, LEDs, and liquid crystals technologies; Other components; Tubes; Integrated circuits; IC arrays; Transistor characteristics; Amplifiers; Oscillators; Circuit diagrams and construction; Printed circuits; Radio and TV technologies; Microprocessors; Batteries, power supplies, and chargers; High-voltage power supplies; Symbols and equations. Definitely recommendable book for all electronics specialists, students and enthusiasts.

Here is the eighth, one of the latest, editions of the Dictionary, which has been significantly revised, updated, and clarified, and is now reflecting all latest technological advances. Many new definitions and terms have been included in the different fields of robotics, wireless technology and even artificial intelligence. The team of the authors working on this dictionary made every effort to be accurate yet concise, without any "talking down" to the readers.

Many of the definitions in this book contain cross references providing recommended additional info or allow the comparison with related terms. The expressions bearing the special significance have been printed in italics. Authors made their best to avoid using of the superfluous mathematics, but sometimes equations are still necessary to effectively and completely define a term.

However, no mathematics beyond the high school level has been used. The Appendix A addresses the standard symbols that are used in electrical/electronic diagrams and such symbols are also used in the illustrations throughout the dictionary. Appendix В contains the data tables addressing conversion between electrical systems, Greek alphabet, math functions and operations, prefix multipliers, and resistor color code.

Here is an excellent book released with the intention to provide readers with the necessary overview of the very latest advances in the recommended practices and technologies, as well as recognized international technical standards to help them achieve safest, most efficient and most economical power delivery in a dynamic environment of today.

The topics in this book include protection, dynamics and stability, and operation and control of electric power systems. The present release of the publication contains five completely new and ten significantly revised chapters, supplying the highest level of detail. The material presented in the book is supplemented with so many professional images and graphs making it much easier for the reader to understand it. Among the new chapters there are ones addressing the wind power integration, systems aspects of large black-outs. stability assessment, dynamic security performance and others.

This handbook shall definitely be considered a very useful and practical tool that has to be there is every electrical technician's and engineer's library. Moreover, we would recommend this book even to the students wishing to fresh out their technical knowledge of the electric power systems.

The present book of selected electronic projects is representing some of the best projects that appeared in the popular "73 Magazine". In this single volume the electronics experimenters will find various interesting projects - note that it will be also interesting to the radio enthusiasts and, in fact, literally anyone having an interest in electronics.

The projects included in this publication are covering all fields of electronics - from receivers to transmitters and from power supplies to testing equipment. The readers will even be able to construct some of the equipment themselves, just following the detailed instructions provided in the book. The authors have even included several simple projects for the beginners. The original intention of the authors was to provide all enthusiasts of electronics with a good compilation of tried, tested and proven electronics projects.

Five major chapters of the publication address power suppliers and power regulators, general testing equipment, special testing equipment, amplifiers, and receivers. Definitely recommended volume to anyone making his first steps in the amazing world of electronics, since it is really dealing with all important areas of electronics - it means that the readers will be given a good chance to apply their theoretical knowledge and may try to do something real.