Böcker i Power Systems-serien

While the basic operating principles of Helical Magnetic Flux Compression Generators are easy to understand, the details of their construction and performance limits have been described only in government reports, many of them classified.

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

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.

This book highlights the most important aspects of mathematical modeling, computer simulation, and control of medium-scale power systems.

Plug In Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids: Charging Strategies

This book presents a modified model reference adaptive system (MRAS) observer for sensorless vector control of a wind driven doubly fed induction generator (DFIG). Besides, grid synchronization of a wind driven DFIG under unbalanced grid voltage is also fully covered in this book.

This book focuses on the state of the art in worldwide research on applying optimization approaches to intelligently control charging and discharging of batteries of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs) in smart grids.

The book collects new research ideas and achievements including adelay-dependent robust design method, a wide area robust coordination strategy,a hybrid assessment and choice method for wide area signals, a free-weightingmatrices method and its application, as well as the online identificationmethods for low-frequency oscillations.

This book introduces readers to two major sustainable applications of linear synchronous machines: wave energy conversion and magnetic levitation train technology.

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 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 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.

Plug In Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids: Energy Management

Regulation of the Power Sector is a unified, consistent and comprehensive treatment of the theories and practicalities of regulation in modern power-supply systems.

Therefore, load forecasting is presented in Chapter 4.Single bus Generation Expansion Planning (GEP) problem is described in Chapter 5.

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 useful reference allows readers to compare and learn from best-practice and up-to-date information in this exciting field from Europe, the US and Australia. It shows how to overcome day-to-day and strategic engineering problems, rather than concentrating on policy and market-structural issues.

Discussing developments and research related to all areas of plant surveillance and diagnosis, this text also identifies the successful applications of older methodological tools in the field. It highlights advantages of intelligent systems, AI techniques and integration of soft computing tools.

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.

Autonomous systems are one of the most important trends for the next generation of control systems. This book is the first to transfer autonomous systems concepts and intelligent agents theory into the control and operation environment of power systems.