About The Book Electrical Machines |
Book Summary: |
This textbook offers insights into the principles and applications of electrical machines. The text provides a thorough understanding of the fundamentals that are common to all machines. The book elaborates on single-phase and three-phase transformers, DC machines, AC machines as well as commutator motors, and three-phase induction motors, single-phase induction motors, synchronous machines, generators and motors. This book is intended as a text for students pursuing diploma and undergraduate courses in Electrical Engineering in various universities and engineering institutes. Besides, the book takes care of the requirements of students who are preparing for professional examinations, including those conducted by the Institution of Engineers (India), i.e. AMIE. KEY FEATURES : Discusses the step-by-step coverage of the construction of electrical machines. Gives the methods of testing of electrical machines. Provides the performance calculations of electrical machines. Includes numerous worked-out examples. |
Table of Contents: |
Preface 1. Single-phase Transformers: Principle and Construction 2. Single-phase Transformers: Operation and Testing 3. Three-phase Transformers: Operation and Testing 4. Elements of Transformer Design 5. Laboratory Work (Transformers) 6. Basic Principles of Electrical Machines 7. Principle and Construction of DC Machines 8. DC Machines: Operation and Testing 9. Elements of DC Machine Design 10. Laboratory Work (DC Machines) 11. Three-phase Induction Motors: Principles and Characteristics 12. Three-phase Induction Motors: Operation and Testing 13. Synchronous Machines 14. Synchronous Machines: Generators 15. Synchronous Motors 16. Single-phase Induction Motors 17. AC Commutator Motors 18. Laboratory Work (AC Machines) Index |
About The Book Elements Of Electrical Power Station Design |
Book Summary: |
This comprehensive textbook is primarily aimed at undergraduate engineering students of Electrical Engineering, both at degree and diploma level. The book covers preliminary designs and economic loading of diesel-electric stations, steam stations, nuclear power stations and hydro-electric stations. It discusses load forecasting, economic load dispatch, unit commitment problem, methods of scheduling stations, allocation control, system reliability and system security. Trends in power plant instrumentation and control are also presented. The important problems of pollution control and performance standards of thermal power stations are discussed. The application of computers in power systems is touched. The book also explains the need of using unconventional sources of energy and plants, like biogas plants, biomass plants, solar electric system and wind electric system to save fossil fuels. Rural energy demands and methods of forecasting energy demands are elaborated. |
Table of Contents: |
Preface Principal Symbols and Abbreviations Introduction 1. Prediction of Load 2. Choice of Power Station and Units 3. Diesel-electric Stations: Preliminary Design 4. Steam Stations: Preliminary Design 5. Gas Turbine Stations and Combined Cycles 6. Elements of Nuclear Power Stations 7. Hydro-electric Stations: Preliminary Design-I 8. Hydro-electric Stations: Preliminary Design-II 9. Combination of Hydro-electric and Steam Stations 10. Major Electrical Plant in Power Stations 11. Power Stations Control and Interconnection 12. Protective Relaying for Power Stations 13. Economic Loading of Power Stations 14. Modern Trends in Power Station Design and Operation 15. Modern Trends in Power Plant Instrumentation and Control 16. Unconventional Sources of Energy and Plants Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Index |