Fundamentals of Electrical Drives

Dr. Duco Pulle is Founder and Director of EM synergy, Inc. and Guest Professor at The Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA) at RWTH Aachen University. He is the author of previous Springer titles in the Power Systems Series, Fundamentals of Electrical Drives and Advanced Electrical Drives.Dr. ir. André Veltman is director of Piak Electronic Design B.V. in the Netherlands and (co-)author of two other Springer titles on Electrical Drives. Rik W. De Doncker is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Aachen University of Technology, Aachen, Germany, where he leads the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives. In Oct. 2006 he was also appointed director of the E.ON Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University, where he leads the Institute for Power Generation and Storage Systems. He has published over 170 technical papers and is holder of 25 patents, with several pending. He is past president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS) and was founding Chairman of the German IEEE IAS-PELS Joint Chapter. Dr. De Doncker is recipient of the IAS Outstanding Achievements Award and the IEEE Power Engineering Custom Power Award.

• Introduction.- Simple Electro-Magnetic Circuits.- The Transformer.- Three-Phase Circuits.- Concept Of Real And Reactive Power.- Space Vector Based Transformer Models.- Introduction To Electrical Machines.- Voltage Source Connected Synchronous Machines.- Voltage Source Connected Asynchronous Machines.- Direct Current Machines.- Pulse Width Modulation And Current Control For DC Drives.- A Concept of Sinusoidal Distributed Wingdings.