Electrics & Electronics

The recent significant increase in the consumption of electrical energy and the strong emphasis being made on the environmental protection have caused the challenges for the electric motor industry. The present volume has been specifically prepared to suit the motor manufacturers and designers, engineers and personnel involved in the periodical maintenance and/or repair of the motors, students and researchers, and to provide all required technical knowledge on the various design methods and latest developments concerning electrical motors.

The author has mostly focused on the mechanical design issues and detailed the manufacture and design of the key components and subsystems, e.g. shafts, frames, stators and rotors, reviewed the different motor cooling techniques, discussed the calculation and analysis of the power losses occurring in electric motors, addresses the acoustic noise and motor vibration issues, presented various interesting methods of engineering analysis methods supplemented with the numerous informative and illustrative case studies, and also emphasized the construction of the electric motors, their optimization matters and possible applications. The author has shared his great personal experience with the readers so this book will be very useful not only from the theoretical viewpoint.  

Nowadays, all issues that are relating to the distribution and quality of the electric power continue to be there among the challenges that are considered very serious in the electric utilities industry. It is therefore critically important to make a right choice of the architecture and all associated equipment for a particular application.

All chapters included in this volume were carefully selected by the author, T. A. Short, from the world popular Electric Power Distribution Handbook in order to provide the readers with the sharply focused economical reference on the latest technological advances and infrastructures enabling the top efficient and highly reliable distribution of the electrical power. The author starts his publication with some fundamentals of electric power distribution systems describing the configurations and substations, as well as electric loads and principal differences existing there between the American and European systems.

The publication might also boast with a look at the recent developments of the field in question; note that it also addresses some possible future challenges and problems that are expected today. The author elaborated on all types of distribution networks, covering both theory and practical issues. Some individual chapters deal with the transformers, capacitors and voltage regulation etc.​

This easy-to-understand book gives a funny and very easy way for beginners to start building electrical circuits for their projects. Have you ever tried to construct you own electronic device, or repair a cable for the microphone, or do anything like this?

Here is an excellent publication for you, that will be actually of great use for such enthusiasts. Inside this book the readers will find all necessary techniques and tools they require to start building the circuits - note that the material presented in the book is supplemented with the very well-illustrated instructions helping readers with accomplishing the tasks and completing the projects. You will be able to construct so many projects while learning the most important principles and techniques of the electric circuit building.

You will also get some useful information related to the testing and measuring, troubleshooting, maintenance, electric cables and connectors etc. The book addresses nearly all stuff you have to know and provides all required tools together with the explanation of their proper use; you will know how to make sense of electrical schemes, understand the basic techniques for creating circuits, start making and repairing connectors and cables, get aware of the good procedures for maintenance and testing etc...

The book by Ned Mohan has been specifically designed having the undergraduate students in mind, who would be most likely to take one single course on the subject of the publication; the book will for sure be helpful when it is used to prepare those students for the industry.

It imparts the fundamentals of the theory and also provides some sort of roadmap for further training, with the technical info contained in this book being mainly based on feedbacks that have been received from more than three hundred faculty members at various workshops. This publication includes so many interesting chapters that have been sequenced in the order allowing to maintain students' interest throughout the entire course.

The students will study the structure and applications of the switch-mode PES (power electronic systems), get the info on the converters and feedback controllers, understand the practical details of implementing a power-pole, get detailed description of the diode rectifiers, magnetic concepts, PFC (power-factor-correction) circuits, controller design, various electric motor drives, thyristors, uninterruptible power supplies, utility applications of the power electronics, etc. The arrangement of the material also allows the instructors to omit some of the topics in order to concentrate on another...

This is the 3rd, significantly expanded and thoroughly revised, release of the popular and well-detailed reference book providing all technical guidelines that may be required for the correct selection and proper further use of the various electric motors for better performance and increased reliability, improved efficiency of the energy and, in addition, more economical life-cycle cost.

The publication is reflecting the actual situation in the current field, and describes to readers all the latest major technological developments related to the control electronics, and the economics of energy efficient electric systems/motors, and the advanced power electronic drivers. This latest edition of the book includes some completely new chapters that are intended to address the most important topics, e.g. the fundamentals of the power electronics as applied to the electric motor drives, motor drives of the advanced switched reluctance, adjustable speed drives together with their applications, permanent magnet, no-brush direct current electric motor drives.

This book should be treated as critically valuable for the electrical engineers, equipment makers and all other involved parties like specialists dealing with the maintenance and operation of the equipment in question, for the informed decision making.

The third edition of the Power Electronics Handbook by Muhammad Rashid. Power electronics of today is a growing area that is using the latest electronics technologies to convert between different forms of electric power; it has so many applications in the human life such as the motor drives, a/c units, power supplies and sources of renewable energy.

The present handbook was intended to address literally all aspects that are relating to the switching devices, control technique, including various analytical methods and their applications. The book was specifically designed to appeal to the new generation of engineering professionals. The publication includes four chapters dedicated to the renewable energy, energy storage and transmission, DCG, i.e. distributed and cogeneration technology, generating sets, variable speed electric generators, wind turbines, fuel cells etc.

The readers of this book, upon its completion, will be able to provide a real leadership in the field of the technical design applied to the various power electronics projects. It consists of forty-five chapters with the valuable contributions that have been made by the leading experts in the industry. The author has managed to achieve the purpose to provide people with the useful but quite concise reference equally suitable to students and pro's.

The present report covers numerous topics considered important and relevant in the modeling of sonar transducers as well as transducer arrays. The distribution of this publication was quite limited since some part of the material contained i it was classified as critical for military purposes. Among the topics covered within this publication there are acoustic and structural modeling, electrical interconnections, structure-acoustic coupling, material parameters, specific types of acoustic projectors and others.

The book starts with the chapter dedicated to the acoustic modeling. It addresses such issues as the equations depicting the acoustic wave, various analytic solutions of the wave equation, integral relations, and integral equation methods, point sources and dipoles, plane wave solutions, wave envelope method, infinite element methods etc.

The next chapter deals with the structural modeling and covers variational methods, interpolation schemes, fluid, structural, piezoelectric and magnetostrictive finite elements, variational approximations etc. In short, the book is specifically recommended to the persons dealing with the sonar transducers and will be useful due to the valuable information contained in it.

Nowadays, the role of a marine engineer working on board a ship requires deep technical knowledge of various relevant engineering disciplines and their application. In addition, nearly every single piece of the shipboard equipment is fed and/or controlled by electrical power. The present publication is intended to serve as a good textbook for marine engineering students and electro technical officers.

However, it may also be used for self-study and included in libraries both ashore and onboard vessels as a very good reference source. The book consists of twenty-six chapters written in quite simple and easily understandable English. The author not only explains the fundamentals but he also deals with the operating principles, procedures for proper maintenance, design and construction features, and rules/regulations governing the safe and efficient operation of all shipboard electrical systems.

There are also some extracts from class societies' rules. There is also a Teaching Guide provided at the very beginning of the volume, and it suggest a standard methodology of teaching. Moreover, there is a questions bank covering all topics explained in the main body of the book to check and control the progress, hundreds of figures, images and other valuable supplementary information for better understanding.