1st Edition

Fundamentals of Electric Machines: A Primer with MATLAB A Primer with MATLAB

    410 Pages 296 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    410 Pages 296 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    An electric machine is a device that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy or vice versa. It can take the form of an electric generator, electric motor, or transformer. Electric generators produce virtually all electric power we use all over the world. Electric machine blends the three major areas of electrical engineering: power, control and power electronics. This book presents the relation of power quantities for the machine as the current, voltage power flow, power losses, and efficiency. This book will provide a good understanding of the behavior and its drive, beginning with the study of salient features of electrical dc and ac machines.

    Preface. Acknowledgments. Authors. 1. Basic Concepts of Magnetism. 2. Magnetic Circuit. 3. Alternating Current Power. 4. Transformers. 5. Transformer Design. 6. Direct Current Machines. 7. AC Motors. 8. Power Electronics. 9. Concept of DC Drive. 10. AC Drives. 11. Special Machines. Problems. Appendix A: Mathematical Formula. Appendix B: Complex Numbers. Appendix C: Introduction to MATLAB®. Appendix D: Answer to Odd-Numbered Problems. Index

    Biography

    Dr. Warsame H. Ali received his BSc from King Saud University Electrical
    Engineering Department, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and his MS from Prairie View A
    &M University, Prairie View, Texas. He received his Ph.D. in electrical
    engineering from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. Dr. Ali was
    promoted to associate professor and tenured in 2010 and to the Full professor to
    2017. As a faculty fellow, Dr. Ali joined NASA, Glenn Research Center, in the
    Summer of 2005, and Texas Instruments (TI) in 2006.
    Dr. Ali has given several invited talks and is also the author more than 100
    research articles in major scientific journals and conferences. Dr. Ali has received
    several awards from NSF, NAVSEA, AFRL, and DOE. At present, he is teaching
    undergraduate and graduate courses in the Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Department at Prairie View A & M University. His main research interests are the
    application of digital PID Controllers, digital methods to electrical measurements,
    and mixed-signal testing techniques, power systems, HVDC power transmission,
    sustainable power and energy systems, power electronics and motor drives,
    electric and hybrid vehicles, and control system.
    Samir I. Abood received his BSc and MSc from the University of Technology,
    Baghdad, Iraq in 1996 and 2001 respectively. From 1997 to 2001, he worked as
    an engineer at the same university. From 2001 to 2003, he was an assistant
    professor at the University of Baghdad and at AL-Nahrain University, and from
    2003 to 2016. Mr. Abood was an assistant professor at Middle Technical
    University / Baghdad – Iraq. Presently, he is doing his Ph.D. in an electrical
    power system in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Prairie
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    View A & M University. He is the author of 25 papers and 3 books. His main
    research interests are in the area of sustainable power and energy system,
    microgrid, power electronics, and motor drives, and control system.
    Matthew O. Sadiku received his BSc in 1978 from Ahmadu Bello University,
    Zaria, Nigeria, and his MSc and Ph.D. from Tennessee Technological
    University was an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University, where he
    did graduate work in computer science. From 1988 to 2000, he was at Temple
    University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he became a full professor. From
    2000 to 2002, he worked with Lucent/ Avaya, Holmdel, New Jersey, as a
    system engineer and with Boeing Satellite Systems as a senior scientist. At
    present, he is a professor at Prairie View A & M University.