Electrics & Electronics

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.

Here is the fourth, updated and revised, edition of the Basic Electrical Engineering. The book has been prepared with the specific intention of the authors to make a book that would serve as a good training course for virtually all engineering students of electronics, computer and mechanical engineering, communications, etc.

With the very latest technological advancement in nearly all spheres of engineering, it is becoming too difficult to provide users with more than one slot for inter-disciplinary courses. However, the author of this publication feels that no engineering could work without electric energy, which is true. We all know that the basic input to all engineering is the electric energy, and that is why a basic course on Electrical Engineering theory is one of the essential studies for all engineering students.

The opening chapter of the publication has been dedicated to the direct current circuits; it is followed by the chapter on the electromagnetic induction. The other chapters of the publication cover the alternate current circuits, network theory, three-phase supply, address some basic instruments, describe the theory, construction and operation of the transformers and DC machines, shed some light on the three-phase synchronous machines and induction motors, power systems, domestic wiring etc. There are numerous multiple choice questions provided in the closing chapter of the book to check your knowledge.​

This publication was prepared by three recognized experts in this field with the main of the declared objectives to disseminate the accumulated technical knowledge together with the applications of the Spanish working groups dealing with the scientific technical researches in the relevant fields of maritime robotics/automation. There are some serious discerning between control and guidance, when applied to the marine vehicles.

The term "guidance" usually corresponds to the determination of the factors as the attitude, course and speed of the marine vehicle, relative to the established reference frame, e.g. earth, that is to be followed by the above mentioned vehicle. The term "control" would rather be corresponding to the development plus the application to marine vehicles of the various forces/moments for operating point controls, stabilization/tracking, and this all would definitely involve the feedback/feedforward control laws.

This volume contains fourteen chapters covering all control problems in marine vehicles, interactive software tools, long disturbances compensation techniques, reactive control of a visually guided UCT (standing for the underwater cable tracker), underwater climbing robots and impact systems that are commonly utilized for ship hull cleaning, simulation of the sea trials and many other important, innovative and very interesting topics...

Here are the declared training objectives of the present course - to identify and further explain to the students how to make proper differentiation between the open-loop and close-loop positioning and also to explain the working principle of every technique; the students will get to know how stepper and servo motor control systems achieve the required precision and get familiarized with the general principles of operation of the motors; upon completion of the lesson, the students should be able to properly identify and explain to others how the major components of a direct and/or alternate current servo motor and of stepper motor controller function, explain the most common fault indications, properly describe the conditions in the above mentioned systems that may possibly lead to the operating problems, implement and recommend the operational procedures for prevention of the occurring or recurring of such problems.

We would definitely recommend this publication for training purposes as well as for the refreshment of the basic theoretical knowledge on the subject matters. This study guide was developed and released by Tel-A-Trains and belongs to the Solid State Motor Controls Training series.

This comprehensive reference source was prepared to provide all interested parties, including designers, R & D engineers and researchers with all required technical information on various alternate current motor system drives. It would also appeal to the students in the field of electrical and power systems, robotics, mechanical engineering, and others.

   The book covers all latest advancements concerning the control theory and draws on them to apply a truly wide range of control design methods to a variety of alternate current motors. The publication contains contributions from 30+ top industry researchers explaining how the above mentioned control methods might be used to achieve optimal energy efficiency, safety and operational reliability. The author describes the complete control approach and demonstrates both observer and controller designs by the advanced non-linear methods.

Among the other features of this nice publication there is the good coverage of the main types of alternate current motors, illustration of the use of the advanced control methods with special focus made on non-linear controllers and observers, fault detection/isolation algorithms, etc. The AC control is very complex but this book will provide all required information to make the understanding a bit easier.