Bücher der Reihe Power Systems

This book provides a detailed review of power electronics systems, covering both Flexible AC Transmissions Systems (FACTS) and Custom Power Systems (CUPS). This is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced postgraduate students in the fields of power quality improvement and distributed electrical power systems.

"Power Electronics in Smart Electrical Energy Networks" introduces a new viewpoint on power electronics, re-thinking the basic philosophy governing electricity distribution systems.

Composite Insulators for Electric Power Networks provides an overview of composite insulators for power transmission. The text serves as a guide for readers on topics like material selection, properties and design, applications, and the recycling of these composite materials.

This book covers vector control of three-phase AC machines, in particular induction motors with squirrel-cage rotor, permanent excited synchronous motors and doubly-fed induction machines, from the viewpoint of practical design and development.

This book discusses the development of novel protective relaying algorithms using Mathematical Morphology, a nonlinear signal processing technique derived from set theory and geometry.

commutator (brushed) machines, induction (asynchronous) machines and synchronous machines. brushed machines (except small machines) have been gradually abandoned and PM brushless machines (PMBM) and switched reluctance machines (SRM) have been in mass p- duction and use for at least two decades.

This book provides a training course for I and C maintenance engineers in power, process, chemical, and other industries. The book compiles 30 years of knowledge gained by the author and his staff in testing the I and C systems of nuclear power plants around the world.

"Power Electronics in Smart Electrical Energy Networks" introduces a new viewpoint on power electronics, re-thinking the basic philosophy governing electricity distribution systems.

This book introduces a new approach to transformer design using artificial intelligence techniques combined with finite element methods. Examples throughout illustrate the application of the techniques discussed to many real-life transformer design problems.

This guide enables readers to pinpoint the location of a fault on power lines following a disturbance. It covers all aspects of protective relaying and automation from both the design and application standpoints.

The book describes the main physical processes and phenomena in pulsed electric breakdown. Such high-voltage micro- and nanosecond pulses find wide application in experimental physics, electro discharge technology, physics of dielectrics, radar detection and ranging, high-speed photography.

The purpose of this book is to familiarize the reader with all aspects of electrical drives. It contains a comprehensive user-friendly introductory text.

This book details the use of the Internet protocol suite and multi-agent systems for the information management, online monitoring, and control of distributed power system substations. It proposes an open architecture for information management and control, based on the concepts of multi-agent systems and mobile agents.

A comprehensive approach to Wind Turbine Generator Systems (WTGS) and their operation in dynamic electric power system analysis. They describe the complicated dynamical system behavior of wind turbines much better than the over-simplified static models.

This research monograph considers modelling and control design of electric motors, namely step motors, brushless DC motors and induction motors. The book reports new global robust adaptive designs for motors and provides new tools for control designs, with an emphasis on stepper motors.

This book presents a comprehensive set of guidelines and applications of DIgSILENT PowerFactory, an advanced power system simulation software package, for different types of power systems studies.

This book presents a systematic methodology for the computer modeling of electric power systems. It features support of theoretical concepts with a complete, open-source software package that is available via the authors' webpage.

Pulsed-Power Systems describes the physical and technical foundations for the production and application of high-voltage pulses of very high-power and high-energy character.

This is due to the stringent operating conditions and widely varying specifications - a drive may alternately require control of torque, acceleration, speed or position - and the fact that most electric drives have - in contrast to chem ical or thermal processes - well defined structures and consistent dynamic characteristics.

This textbook explores reactive power control and voltage stability and explains how they relate to different forms of power generation and transmission. Bringing together international experts in this field, it includes chapters on electric power analysis, design and operational strategies. The book explains fundamental concepts before moving on to report on the latest theoretical findings in reactive power control, including case studies and advice on practical implementation students can use to design their own research projects.Featuring numerous worked-out examples, problems and solutions, as well as over 400 illustrations, Reactive Power Control in AC Power Systems offers an essential textbook for postgraduate students in electrical power engineering. It offers practical advice on implementing the methods discussed in the book using MATLAB and DIgSILENT, and the relevant program files are available at extras.springer.com.

Aiming at a better understanding of power system harmonics, this text presents a discussion of this issue, providing a quantitative analysis when possible.

"Hydrogen-based Autonomous Power Systems" analyses the introduction of hydrogen energy technologies in autonomous power systems based on renewable energy sources (RES).

This book deals specifically with control theories relevant to the design of control units for switched power electronics devices, for the most part represented by DC-DC converters and supplies, by rectifiers of different kinds and by inverters with varying topologies.

This book presents the methodology and mathematical models for dual-fuel coal-gas power plants in two basic configurations: systems coupled in parallel and in series. Dual-fuel gas and steam systems, especially parallel systems, have great potential for modernizing existing combined heat and power (CHP) plants.

This book aims to offer a thorough study and reference textbook on electrical machines and drives. In the third part, electrical drives are discussed, combining the traditional (rotating field and DC commutator) electrical machines treated in the first part and the power electronics of part two.

This book focuses on the theory and application of power switching components in power networks.

This textbook explores reactive power control and voltage stability and explains how they relate to different forms of power generation and transmission. Bringing together international experts in this field, it includes chapters on electric power analysis, design and operational strategies. The book explains fundamental concepts before moving on to report on the latest theoretical findings in reactive power control, including case studies and advice on practical implementation students can use to design their own research projects.Featuring numerous worked-out examples, problems and solutions, as well as over 400 illustrations, Reactive Power Control in AC Power Systems offers an essential textbook for postgraduate students in electrical power engineering. It offers practical advice on implementing the methods discussed in the book using MATLAB and DIgSILENT, and the relevant program files are available at extras.springer.com.

The purpose of this book is to familiarize the reader with all aspects of electrical drives. It contains a comprehensive user-friendly introductory text.