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This volume offers a thorough treatment of steady state modeling and performance of induction machines, the most used electric motors in rather constant or variable speed drives for even lower energy consumption and higher productivity in basically all industries, from home appliances, through robotics to e-transport and wind energy conversion.
List of contents
1. Induction Machines: An Introduction 2. Construction Aspects and Operation Principles 3. Magnetic, Electric, and Insulation Materials for IM 4. Induction Machine Windings and Their mmfs 5. The Magnetisation Curve and Inductance 6. Leakage Inductances and Resistances 7. Steady-State Equivalent Circuit and Performance 8. Starting and Speed Control Methods 9. Skin and On-Load Saturation Effects 10. Airgap Field Space Harmonics, Parasitic Torques, Radial Forces, and Noise Basics 11. Losses in Induction Machines 12. Thermal Modelling and Cooling 13. Single-Phase Induction Machines: The Basics 14. Single-Phase Induction Motors: Steady State
About the author
Ion Boldea, IEEE Life Fellow, Professor Emeritus at University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania has taught, did research and published extensively papers and books (monographs and textbooks) over more than 45 years, related to rotary and linear electric motor/generator variable speed drives and MAGLEVS. He was a visiting Professor in USA, UK for more than 5 years since 1973 to present.
He was granted 4 IEEE best paper Awards, has been a member of IEEE IAS, IE MEC and IDC since 1992, was the guest editor of numerous special sections in IEEE Trans, vol. IE, IA, delivered keynote addresses at quite a few IEEE sponsored International Conferences, participated in IEEE Conference tutorials, is since 2008 an IEEE IAS distinguished lecturer (with lecture in USA, Brasil, S. Korea, Denmark, Italy, etc.). He held periodic intensive graduate courses for Academia and Industry in USA and Denmark in the last 20 years.
Summary
This volume offers a thorough treatment of steady state modeling and performance of induction machines, the most used electric motors in rather constant or variable speed drives for even lower energy consumption and higher productivity in basically all industries, from home appliances, through robotics to e-transport and wind energy conversion.
