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Like its predecessors, the third edition of this book is intended primarily for non-specialist users and students of electric motors and drives. My original aim was to bridge the gap between specialist textbooks (which are pitched at a level too academic for the average user) and the more prosaic ‘handbooks’, which are full of useful detail but provide little opportunity for the development of any real insight or understanding. The fact that the second edition was reprinted ten times indicated that there had indeed been a gap in the market, and that a third edition would be worthwhile. It was also gratifying to learn that although the original book was not intended as yet another undergraduate textbook, teachers and students had welcomed the book as a gentle introduction to the subject.The book explores most of the widely used modern types of motors and drives, including conventional and brushless d.c., induction motors (mains and inverter-fed), stepping motors, synchronous motors (mains and converter-fed) and reluctance motors. The d.c. motor drive and the induction motor drive are given most importance, reflecting their dominant position in terms of numbers. Understanding the d.c. drive is particularly important because it is still widely used as a frame of reference for other drives: those who develop a good grasp of the d.c. drive will find their know-how invaluable in dealing with all other types, particularly if they can establish a firm grip on the philosophy of the control scheme.
Content:-
Preface
1. ELECTRIC MOTORS
2. POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS FOR MOTOR DRIVES
3. CONVENTIONAL D.C. MOTORS
4. D.C. MOTOR DRIVES
5. INDUCTION MOTORS – ROTATING FIELD, SLIP AND TORQUE
6. OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS OF INDUCTION MOTORS
7. INDUCTION MOTOR EQUIVALENT CIRCUIT
8. INVERTER-FED INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVES
9. STEPPING MOTORS
10. SYNCHRONOUS, BRUSHLESS D.C. AND SWITCHED RELUCTANCE DRIVES
11. MOTOR/DRIVE SELECTION
APPENDIX – INTRODUCTION TO CLOSED–LOOP CONTROL
Index
Author Details
"Austin Hughes" Senior Fellow, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds.
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