Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications / Edition 5

by Austin Hughes, Bill Drury

Overview

Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications, Fifth Edition is intended primarily for non-specialist users or students of electric motors and drives, but many researchers and specialist industrialists have also acknowledged its value in providing a clear understanding of the fundamentals. It bridges the gap between specialist textbooks (too analytical for the average user) and handbooks (full of detail but with little insight) providing an understanding of how each motor and drive system works.

The fifth edition has been completely revised, updated and expanded. All of the most important types of motor and drive are covered, including d.c., induction, synchronous (including synchronous reluctance and salient Permanent Magnet), switched reluctance, and stepping. There has been significant innovation in this area since the fourth edition, particularly in the automotive, aircraft and industrial sectors, with novel motor topologies emerging, including hybrid designs that combine permanent magnet and reluctance effects. We now include a physical basis for understanding and quantifying torque production in these machines, and this leads to simple pictures that illuminate the control conditions required to optimise torque. The key converter topologies have been brought together, and the treatment of inverter switching strategies expanded.

A new chapter is devoted to the treatment of Field Oriented control, reflecting its increasing importance for all a.c. motor drives. A unique physically-based approach is adopted which builds naturally on the understanding of motor behaviour developed earlier in the book: the largely non-mathematical treatment dispels much of the mystique surrounding what is often regarded as a difficult topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780081026151
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/04/2019
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	511
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Austin Hughes was a long-time member of the innovative motors and drives research team at the University of Leeds, UK, and has established a reputation for an informal style that opens up complex subjects to a wide readership, including students and managers as well as technicians and engineers.

Bill Drury is an independent consultant in power electronics, electrical machines and drives (PEMD). He has 45 years industrial PEMD experience - Siemens, Rolls-Royce and for 20 years Technical Director of Control Techniques. He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). He is a Visiting Professor of Innovation at Bristol University and a Visiting Professor at Newcastle University.

Table of Contents

Electric motors; Power electronic converters for motor drives; Conventional DC motors; DC motor drives; Induction motors - rotating field, slip and torque; Operating characteristics of induction motors; Induction motor equivalent circuit; Inverter-fed induction motor drives; Stepping motors; Synchronous, brushless DC and switched reluctance drives; Motor/drive selection; Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Understand the capabilities and limitations of motors and drives with this practical guide for students and professionals

Editorial Reviews

For non-specialist users of electric motors and drives who find the academic textbooks too technical and the popular handbooks not systematic enough. Explains most of the types now in common use, including the conventional and brushless DC, induction, stepping, synchronous, and reluctance. Revised from the 1990 first edition to clarify some parts and incorporate new developments, especially in control and switching. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"This book is very readable, up-to-date and should be extremely useful to both users and o.e.m. designers. I unhesitatingly recommend it to any busy engineer who needs to make informed judgments about selecting the right drive system." —Drives and Controls

"A very useful reference book for anyone wanting a comprehensive understanding of motors and drives ... I have not seen another book which covers this wide subject more comprehensively and in such an easy-to-read style." —Silicon Chip, May 2006

"I would regard this book as a light but broad coverage of many motor and drive concepts that have been around a long time." —Dennis Feucht, Innovatia.com

"The coverage of drive types and behaviors is thorough and up to date." —Electrical Apparatus, May 2006

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