Bøger i Power Systems serien

Written by leading experts in the field, this book presents a tutorial and best practice of Smart Grid Prototype Projects.

This book discusses problems concerning the design and realization of digital control algorithms for power electronics circuits using digital signal processing (DSP) methods. It includes Matlab examples for illustration of considered problems.

This book introduces the IRSP method and offers best practices of DSM for energy conservation and emission reduction. Explores Integrated Resource Strategic Planning (IRSP) and Demand Side Management (DSM), relating modeling, case studies and lessons learned.

As more renewable energy sources come on line, power distribution systems may be disrupted by the changes involved. This volume examines the electromagnetic interference accompanying the implementation of the 'smart grids' needed for greener electricity.

This book surveys power frequency converters, focusing on converters without DC energy storage, and new matrix-reactance converters developed by the author and researchers from the Institute of Electrical Engineering at the University of Zielona Gora, Poland.

This book addresses the challenge of improving vehicle fuel economy and reducing emissions without sacrificing performance, reliability and durability. It details several key technologies in the design phases of hybrid electric vehicles.

After explaining the physics and fundamental concepts of electromagnetic conversion, this book introduces the standard mathematical models for induction machines-whichever rotor technology is used-and introduces a new parameter sensitivity reduction method.

This book is a comprehensive, clear, and well-organized description of applied quality regulation in the electricity sector as it is today. It creates an essential bridge linking the theoretical aspects of service quality regulation with country-specific applied mechanisms.

This book provides an overview of the development of the Common Information Model (CIM), describes which international projects and roadmaps have already been covered and outlines the basic use cases for CIM. Covers both theoretical and practical aspects.

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 examines transmission grid security analysis using probabilistic safety assessment and taking into account power system dynamics after severe faults. Shows how to estimate consequences of grid faults and how to identify events that can lead to blackouts.

This book presents a comprehensive view of high performance AC drives. It provides examples of modeling, analysis and control of electric drives using MATLAB/SIMULINK as well as up-to date references in sensorless and direct torque control of electric drives.

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.

This wide-ranging survey examines a variety of power quality problems, describing the sources of poor power quality and their effect on electricity supply, particularly regarding imbalance and harmonics. It includes a case study on induction machines.

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.

Fuel Cell Micro-grids describes an energy supply method based on a network of two or more proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEM-FC). This book analyses the operation plan of these new energy supply methods using genetic algorithms.

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.

This timely book introduces the different technologies to produce heat and power from solid fossil and renewable fuels, such as combustion and gasification, steam power plants and combined cycles. The focus is on the potential of new technologies.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The only book containing a complete treatment on the construction of electric power lines. Reflecting the changing economic and technical environment of the industry, this publication introduces beginners to the full range of relevant topics of line design and implementation.

This book provides a thorough approach for mastering the behavior and operation of induction motors, an essential device in the modern industrial world. The principles of such modern control methods as Fiel-Oriented Control, Direct Torque Control and Computed Charges Acceleration Method are clearly treated in this monograph.

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.