Power Quality Issues Current Harmonics Power Quality Issues: Current Harmonics provides solutions for the mitigation of power quality problems related to harmonics. Focusing on active power filters (APFs) due to their excellent harmonic and reactive power compensation in two-wire (single phase) three-wire (three-phase without neutral) and four-wire (three-phase with neutral) AC power networks with nonlinear loads the text:Introduces the APF technology describing various APF configurations and offering guidelines for the selection of APFs for specific application considerationsCompares shunt active filter (SHAF) control strategies for extracting three-phase reference currents evaluating their performance under a number of source voltage conditions using a proportional-integral (PI) controllerPresents PI controller-based SHAF instantaneous active and reactive power (p-q) and instantaneous active and reactive current (Id-Iq) control strategies supplying detailed MATLAB®/Simulink simulation resultsProposes SHAF control strategies using type 1 and type 2 fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) with different fuzzy membership functions (MFs) analyzing their harmonic mitigation and DC link voltage regulationVerifies the proposed type 2 FLC-based SHAF control strategies with trapezoidal triangular and Gaussian fuzzy MFs using RT-LAB a real-time digital simulation software from OPAL-RT TechnologiesPower Quality Issues: Current Harmonics is a useful resource for those tackling electrical power quality challenges. The compensation techniques described in this book alleviate harmonic issues that can distort voltage waveforms fry a building’s wiring trigger nuisance tripping overheat transformer units and cause random end-user equipment failure. | Power Quality Issues Current Harmonics GBP 44.99 1
Three-Phase Electrical Power Three-Phase Electrical Power addresses all aspects of three-phase power circuits. The book treats the transmission of electrical power from the common sources where it is generated to locations where it is consumed. At typical facilities where electrical power is used the book covers the important topics of grounding currents power demand metering circuit protection motors motor protection power factor correction tariffs electrical drawings and relays. Included in the text are the necessary methods of computing currents and power in all possible types of circuit applications as those that are balanced unbalanced leading lagging three-wire and four-wire. Focusing on electrical gear programs and issues related to the generation and use of three-phase electrical power this contemporary educational guide:Uses simple straightforward language to explain key concepts and their underlying theoryIntroduces numerous examples illustrations and photographs to aid in comprehensionEmploys phasor concepts throughout the text to aid in the analysis of three-phase circuitsEncourages applied learning by supplying practical problems at the end of each chapterProvides extensive references and a glossary of symbols acronyms and equationsThree-Phase Electrical Power delivers a much-needed modern-day treatment of three-phase electrical power for electrical engineering students and practitioners alike. GBP 52.99 1
Analysis of Grounding and Bonding Systems Learn the theory behind grounding systems and bonding equipotential connections from a worldwide expert. Through mathematical analysis comprehensive explanations and detailed figures Analysis of Grounding and Bonding Systems explains the theory and the reasons behind basic ground-electrodes (i. e. the sphere the ground rod and the horizontal ground wire) and more complex grounding systems (i. e. ground-grids) buried in uniform and non-uniform soils. Through calculations and explanatory diagrams this comprehensive guide provides code-complying solutions for the safety against electric shock provided by equipotential bonding connections between exposed-conductive-parts such as equipment enclosures and metalwork. Details on the calculation of step and touch voltages in different types of system grounding (i. e. TT TN and IT) are provided also with the aid of solved problems. Readers will learn how to minimize hazardous interactions between grounding systems cathodically protected pipelines and heat networks. The analysis of the effectiveness of bonding systems against electric shock in the case of contact with electric vehicles during charge in the event of ground-faults which is an upcoming issue challenging our safety is included. GBP 54.99 1
AutoCAD 2024 Tutorial Second Level 3D Modeling The primary goal of AutoCAD 2024 Tutorial Second Level 3D Modeling is to introduce the aspects of computer based three dimensional modeling. This text is intended to be used as a training guide for both students and professionals. The chapters in this book cover AutoCAD 2024 and proceed in a pedagogical fashion to guide you from constructing 3D wire frame models 3D surface models and 3D solid models to making multiview drawings and rendering images. The text takes a hands-on exercise-intensive approach to all the important 3D modeling techniques and concepts. This book contains a series of twelve tutorial style chapters designed to introduce CAD users to 3D modeling with AutoCAD 2024. Users upgrading from a previous release of the AutoCAD software will also find this text helpful. The basic premise of this book is that the more 3D designs you create using AutoCAD 2024 the better you learn the software. With this in mind each tutorial introduces a new set of commands and concepts building on previous chapters. By going through this book you will establish a good basis for exploring and growing in the exciting field of Computer Aided Engineering. GBP 62.99 1
AutoCAD 2023 Tutorial Second Level 3D Modeling The primary goal of AutoCAD 2023 Tutorial Second Level 3D Modeling is to introduce the aspects of computer based three dimensional modeling. This text is intended to be used as a training guide for both students and professionals. The chapters in this book cover AutoCAD 2023 and proceed in a pedagogical fashion to guide you from constructing 3D wire frame models 3D surface models and 3D solid models to making multiview drawings and rendering images. The text takes a hands-on exercise-intensive approach to all the important 3D modeling techniques and concepts. This book contains a series of twelve tutorial style chapters designed to introduce CAD users to 3D modeling with AutoCAD 2023. Users upgrading from a previous release of the AutoCAD software will also find this text helpful. The basic premise of this book is that the more 3D designs you create using AutoCAD 2023 the better you learn the software. With this in mind each tutorial introduces a new set of commands and concepts building on previous chapters. By going through this book you will establish a good basis for exploring and growing in the exciting field of Computer Aided Engineering. GBP 62.00 1
Thin-Film Optical Filters Praise for prior editionsan excellent treatise of thin film coatings explaining how to produce all sorts of different filters selected according to the function they are required to play… an indispensable text for every filter manufacturer and user and an excellent guide for students. ―Contemporary Physicsessential reading for all those involved in the design manufacture and application of optical coatings ―Materials Worlda must-have addition to the library of any optical thin-film theorist or practitioner ―SVC NewsThis book is quite simply the Bible for the field of optical thin films. It gives the most complete introduction to thin film optical coatings addressed to manufacturers and users alike. This fifth edition offers a complete update on current design manufacture performance and applications. New topics include absorbers and coherent perfect absorbers photonic crystals and metamaterials for optical coating. The author has also made substantial additions on scattering composite materials wire grid polarizers laser damage and applications. H. Angus Macleod is President of Thin Film Center Inc. in Tucson Arizona and Professor Emeritus of Optical Sciences Center at the University of Arizona. His professional honors include a Gold Medal from SPIE the Esther Hoffman Beller Medal from the Optical Society of America and the Nathaniel H. Sugerman Memorial Award from the Society of Vacuum Coaters. | Thin-Film Optical Filters GBP 44.99 1
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Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics Methologies and Traditional Applications Volume 1 Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics Second Edition reflects the tremendous growth in the field over the past two decades. Through contributions from leading experts this handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the underlying theory and methodologies as well as the various applications of approximation algorithms and metaheuristics. Volume 1 of this two-volume set deals primarily with methodologies and traditional applications. It includes restriction relaxation local ratio approximation schemes randomization tabu search evolutionary computation local search neural networks and other metaheuristics. It also explores multi-objective optimization reoptimization sensitivity analysis and stability. Traditional applications covered include: bin packing multi-dimensional packing Steiner trees traveling salesperson scheduling and related problems. Volume 2 focuses on the contemporary and emerging applications of methodologies to problems in combinatorial optimization computational geometry and graphs problems as well as in large-scale and emerging application areas. It includes approximation algorithms and heuristics for clustering networks (sensor and wireless) communication bioinformatics search streams virtual communities and more. About the EditorTeofilo F. Gonzalez is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California Santa Barbara. He completed his Ph. D. in 1975 from the University of Minnesota. He taught at the University of Oklahoma the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Texas at Dallas before joining the UCSB computer science faculty in 1984. He spent sabbatical leaves at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education and Utrecht University. He is known for his highly cited pioneering research in the hardness of approximation; for his sublinear and best possible approximation algorithm for k-tMM clustering; for introducing the open-shop scheduling problem as well as algorithms for its solution that have found applications in numerous research areas; as well as for his research on problems in the areas of job scheduling graph algorithms computational geometry message communication wire routing etc. | Handbook of Approximation Algorithms and Metaheuristics Methologies and Traditional Applications Volume 1 GBP 44.99 1