Rotating Electric Machinery & Transformer Technology 3rd Edition

This book fills the need for an up-to-date source of information on how to connect, operate, adjust, and take performance data on the entire field of electric machinery. KEY TOPICS: It enables readers to recognize, understand, analyze, specify, connect, control and effectively apply the various existing types of electric motors and generators.

 1. Introduction.

 2. Electromagnetic Energy Conversion.

 3. Actual Machine Construction, DC Dynamos.

 4. Direct-Current Generator Characteristics.

 5. Paralleling of Direct-Current Generators.

 6. The Direct-Current Motor.

 7. Efficiency of Direct-Current Machinery.

 8. Basic Control Components.

 9. Direct-Current Motor Control.

10. Direct-Current Motor and Generator Selection.

11. Alternating-Current Dynamos.

12. The Synchronous Alternator.

13. Synchronous Alternator Regulation.

14. Paralleling of Synchronous Alternators.

15. Ideal and Practical Transformers.

16. Transformer Equivalent Circuits.

17. Specific Transformer Types.

18. Transformer Connections.

19. The Polyphase Induction Motor.

20. Polyphase Induction Motor Characteristics.

21. The Synchronous Motor.

22. The Single-Phase Induction Motor.

23. Shaded-Pole, Synchronous, Universal and Other Single-Phase AC Motors.

24. Alternating-Current Motor Control and Operation.

25. Alternating-Current Motor Selection.

26. Special Uses of Synchronous and Induction Machines.

Appendices.

Bibliography.

Index.