Electrics & Electronics

The present title was specificity prepared and released for the today's and future professionals  in the field of protective relaying as well as for any interested people possessing some minimal engineering skills. The publication has been written in a bit unconventional way - it uses the MERIT 2000, the MATLAB-based simulation tool, to offer readers the experience in understanding and subsequent implementing of various protective relaying designs.

There are many books dedicated to the protective relaying - most of them provide very good background on the principles of power relaying and faults occurring in power systems; however, almost all of them assume that the readers are mostly interested in learning how exactly the protective relaying approaches can be used in power systems. The authors of this book took a bit different approach assuming that readers are in learning how the protective relays work and understand their basic working principles.

Taking this goal in consideration, this book tries to turn the learning into the design experience with the readers using MATLAB from the very beginning. Note that we would not consider this book a substitute for any textbook on the fundamentals of protective relaying; this is more a complementary source of information.

This sixth edition of the famous textbook by Delmar has been mainly intended for students involved in electrical trade programs at community colleges, high schools and those engaged in industry training. It is assumed by the authors that the readers have had no prior deep knowledge of electricity; however, the book provides quite comprehensive coverage for use a reference tool even for experienced professionals.

The content of this publication itself is presented as a sort of blend of the theoretical knowledge and practical experience. It explains the various technical concepts related to electrical theory and also contains a number of case studies and practical examples of how to perform many of the common tasks that the industrial electricians must perform on the regular basis. The book also includes a very extensive art program which contains nice line drawings and full color high-quality images, and a huge number of practical exercises, all intended to serve to further clarification of the theoretical concepts.

This edition of the Textbook has been updated to the 2014 NEC. All materials provided in the book are explained really well and using an understandable language so it will be good for the beginners to electrical engineering as well as to students.​

This publication was written by Tingting Yang and Sherman Shen who made an attempt to cover the constantly emerging networks of maritime wideband communications. The authors are trying to describe to the readers how such networks facilitate the applications like general communications, urgency, maritime distress etc. This book was initially intended to provide a good insight to the scheduling of the maritime data transmission and to the protocol design for the network that has been mentioned above.

The book starts with some brief intro to the networks including their principal architecture, framework and operation principles, and it also includes a survey on current developments in this area. The next part of the book will present the resource allocation as well as the scheduling for the video transmission with the aim to maximize the weights of the video packets being uploaded and transferred. The duet of authors are also proposing an energy and content-aware scheduling scheme for better packet throughput.

Basing on the real vessel route traces received from the navigation programs, the results of the simulations are demonstrating the true viability of the schemes proposed. In addition, the conclusions and valuable suggestions for the future researches have been discussed in this book...

The control of the electrical power with the power electronic devices is becoming more and more important. There are so many new classes of electric motors developed that are being enabled by power electronics. The present handbook has been intended to provide readers with a good reference source that would be both concise and very useful for individuals, from students to real professionals in the field of electrical engineering.

The publication includes so wide range of various topics comprising the subject of power electronics, combining many regular, traditional, topics with some new and innovative technologies being at the edge of the latest technological advances. The emphasis has been made by the author of this book on the practical applications of all technologies discussed within the publication in order to enhance it's core value to the readers and make the understanding of the material a bit easier.

The presentations provided in the book are tutorial in their nature and there are also many examples on the practical use of the technologies described in the book, consisting of three parts - the first part provides a brief overview of the semiconductor devices, the second part explains the operating principles of circuits, while the last part describes the power electronics applications...

This world popular Handbook was prepared by internationally recognized and respected industry experts. It should be used as the complete reference book to be used by the ocean engineering professionals. The publication offers readers a truly comprehensive coverage of all most important areas of both theory and practice of oceanic as well as coastal engineering and associated technology.

The main body of the present publication has been perfectly organized for easy reference and contains of six major sections, covering marine hydrodynamics and control of marine vehicles, description of the various position control systems used on the offshore ships, some modeling considerations, various aspects of the computational intelligence, examples and description of the application of the fiber optics technology in oceanography and, finally, the technology for  current measurement. The book was specifically designed to be utilized as a traditional handbook in which readers would be able to find the answers to all their question related to the ocean engineering by consulting the corresponding article.

This handbook may also be used in many different ways since it offers snapshots of the current state-of-the-art in various relevant subjects. The text part of the book is supplemented with hundreds of data tables and figures providing additional useful info.

This comprehensive resource is dedicated to the electric systems of today and describes the physical nature of the networks making up the electric power systems, and their working principles plus so many other relevant aspects. The authors have translated very intricate and complex material they wanted to include in the book, into a quite straightforward narrative and this, in turn, allowed the authors to make this title very easy for all newcomers to use.

This volume will also be useful to any person willing to get a broad technical overview of such systems. The publication will be good for non-electrical technicians and engineers, as well, since it provides a perfectly compiled and easily understandable summary allowing readers to get a good general understanding. The present book on power systems would be highly recommended to the students and professional engineers and might for sure serve as a critically useful addition to the technical libraries.

As it has been already mentioned above, the material contained in the publication, has been presented in consistently clear and quite simple language without any unrealistic projections and strident arguments - only thorough explanations of what exactly the power supply industry is and how it relates with the finance, law and politics.

It is quite obvious that the electric energy is one of the key components in a community of today. The author of the present handbook made a good attempt to take an in-depth approach to the variable-speed and constant-speed electric generator systems operating in stand-alone mode and/or at power grid capacities.

The book contains nearly all parameter expressions and models that may be required for the modeling as well as for the design and control, with the text part being supplemented with so many informative practical case studies for better assimilation of the material by the readers. The book has been fully educated to the electric machine/power systems people. It starts with the topics of WRIC, i.e. wound rotor induction generators, providing technical info on them, as well as on the steady-state transients, vector, direct power control and testing issues.

Then there are chapters addressing the CRIG, i.e. cage rotor induction generators, integrated starter alternators, linear reciprocating and linear progressive motion alternators, and so many other issues relating to the variable speed generators, so this publication will be very useful to any people dealing with the design, building, installation and subsequent operation and maintenance of the subject machinery.

This book has been written by one of the most respected and recognized industry professionals and covers a field of electronics which is currently presenting a number of serious difficulties to the students of electronics. As declared by the author, the ultimate goal of this book is to provide all readers with mathematics to make them understand what exactly electronic filters are and how they work; this would definitely help people understand how to effectively use them.

Knowledge of math at GCSE-level is assumed; the students are also supposed to possess some minimum level of electrical theory. Throughout the publication, the text is backed up by description of various electrical filters, their practical working. There are several control questions at the end of each chapter to check your progress; note that the answers to all those questions are provided at the end of the book.

According to the reviews, the book is very easy to read and covers nearly every aspect of electronic filters from the very simple electronic concepts up to the active and digital filters. The title is pretty self-explanatory and we would recommend this volume to any technicians dealing with such filters and to any non-professional willing to get some technical knowledge of them.