Electrics & Electronics

The Automar thematic network was developed with the specific intention of the authors to foster the Spanish innovation and research activities in the maritime industry aiming to strengthen their role in Europe. Fourteen chapters of the present publication collect the excellent contributions showing quite clearly the level of the scientific knowledge in maritime industrial sector achieved by the Spanish RTD.

We would expect that this publication might serve to promote the related technical knowledge as well as applications of the mechatronic and control systems that are currently being developed. The opening chapter has been dedicated to the latest advances on mechanical and thermal monitoring of the load applied to the marine diesel engines while the second chapter is mainly dealing with the ship pedestrian flow simulation.

And, among the other topics that have been covered within this book there is a good overview of the dynamic positioning systems of vessels, a research on predicting/avoiding the seasickness, a seekeeping laboratory where the experimental control tests can be conducted, identification of the math models for HSC, steering control, underwater robotics and even application of the climbing robots.

The very original intention of Adrian Waygood, the author of the present publication on electrical engineering, was to provide all readers, mostly tradespersons and apprentices in the field of electrical technology, as well as any other persons who might require the proper knowledge of the electricity for their everyday work, with a basic intro to the electrical science. However, the author hopes that others, will also find this publication useful and interesting.

Though there are so many books supporting the regulations and some practical aspects of electrical training existing in the industry, by necessity these books are actually unable to cover the electrical science in any depth. Therefore, we may say that there is a tendency for many persons to have quite a weak technical understanding of the electrical science. Moreover, even a very basic examination of the questions/answers on the relevant websites, reveals a huge number of misconceptions on the subject of electricity. 

So, in fact these are the two areas that the author of this publication has tried to address, namely an improvement in the knowledge/understanding of the basics of the electrical science, and an attempt to eliminate most part of the above mentioned misconceptions that people do have about the present subject...

This handbook has been the single source blockbuster containing all essential technical information related to the design and installation, as well as operation and maintenance of the electrical equipment and systems for more than a century. The present latest, revised and updated, release of the handbook includes the very latest advancements in transient voltage surge suppressors, fiber optics, grounding etc.

It is fully in line with the latest releases of the NSC (National Safety Code), NEC (National Electrical Code) and other regulatory documents, and features new info on electronic control of motors and on high efficiency electric motors. In addition to that, the handbook reflects all recent developments in circuits and their translations, wiring tables, transformers, lamp application tables and so much more. Any reader of the book will gain necessary theoretical plus valuable practical information and it should also be used when preparing for the electricians exams since it is very comprehensive.

The book may be used in the classroom as well as for the self-study. You will see that this publication will for sure help you resolve nearly all possible technical questions. This is not an exhaustive reference source on any single subject but rather a perfect reference to provide the general overview.   

We are glad to introduce the fifth release of the Programmable Logic Controllers which continues to be very easy-to-use book, providing readers with the very basic principles of such controllers without tying to any particular manufacturer of PLC.

The present volume contains a truly extensive number of various examples and solved problems intended to assist in better and more thorough understanding of the theory provided, and utilizes various popular controllers, trying to highlight the fundamental knowledge to be used without having to address any of the PLC manufacturers. The publication is intended to help the readers to understand the basic principles of the design and internal architecture, principles of operation of the controllers and to identify the associated safety issues as well as fault diagnostics methods, ways of proper testing and debugging.

Numerous case studies have been included in this edition of the book to supplement the theory; the title also features the extended coverage of the sequences, and much more details have been provided there relating to the programming using the sequential function charts, testing inputs and outputs, comparison of various relay-controlled systems etc.; the IEC programming standard has also been touched in this publication together with the programming devices, security issues etc.​

This comprehensive resource is dedicated to the electric systems of today and describes the physical nature of the networks making up the electric power systems, and their working principles plus so many other relevant aspects. The authors have translated very intricate and complex material they wanted to include in the book, into a quite straightforward narrative and this, in turn, allowed the authors to make this title very easy for all newcomers to use.

This volume will also be useful to any person willing to get a broad technical overview of such systems. The publication will be good for non-electrical technicians and engineers, as well, since it provides a perfectly compiled and easily understandable summary allowing readers to get a good general understanding. The present book on power systems would be highly recommended to the students and professional engineers and might for sure serve as a critically useful addition to the technical libraries.

As it has been already mentioned above, the material contained in the publication, has been presented in consistently clear and quite simple language without any unrealistic projections and strident arguments - only thorough explanations of what exactly the power supply industry is and how it relates with the finance, law and politics.

This book has been written by one of the most respected and recognized industry professionals and covers a field of electronics which is currently presenting a number of serious difficulties to the students of electronics. As declared by the author, the ultimate goal of this book is to provide all readers with mathematics to make them understand what exactly electronic filters are and how they work; this would definitely help people understand how to effectively use them.

Knowledge of math at GCSE-level is assumed; the students are also supposed to possess some minimum level of electrical theory. Throughout the publication, the text is backed up by description of various electrical filters, their practical working. There are several control questions at the end of each chapter to check your progress; note that the answers to all those questions are provided at the end of the book.

According to the reviews, the book is very easy to read and covers nearly every aspect of electronic filters from the very simple electronic concepts up to the active and digital filters. The title is pretty self-explanatory and we would recommend this volume to any technicians dealing with such filters and to any non-professional willing to get some technical knowledge of them.