Electrical Machines: Course Outline

Copyright / Pub. Date: 2013 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Description: For more than a century, the Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers has served as the definitive source for all the pertinent electrical engineering data essential to both engineering students and practicing engineers. It offers comprehensive information on the generation, transmission, distribution, control, operation, and application of electric power. Completely revised throughout to address the latest codes and standards, the 16th Edition of this renowned reference offers new coverage of green technologies such as smart grids, smart meters, renewable energy, and cogeneration plants. Modern computer applications and methods for securing computer network infrastructures that control power grids are also discussed. Featuring hundreds of detailed illustrations and contributions from more than 75 global experts, this state-of-the-art volume is an essential tool for every electrical engineer.

Copyright / Pub. Date: 2004 McGraw-Hill Education Private Limited
Description: Failure Prevention of Plant and Machinery is based on the premise of "Zero-Failure Performance" and the aspiration for the same. The book introduces the general features and investigative methods for determining failures of mechanical and electrical equipment. Also, it dwells on the degradation processes and highlights the failure modes and mechanisms, including the trivial ones. This approach of the author, who has over 40 years of experience in maintaining a variety of mechanical and electrical equipment, will help maintenance engineers appreciate and solve problems like the recurrent failure of equipment due to design or maintenance defects. With this coverage, the book would be useful to reliability, plant, maintenance, electrical and mechanical engineers, and students of electrical and mechanical engineering.

Copyright / Pub. Date: 1998 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Description: From portable CD drivers to heavy industry behemoths–all the essential facts about electric motors in one comprehensive reference. It thoroughly covers updated traction applications, the latest on solid-state motor-drive controllers, electrical and mechanical parameters, specifications, shapes, performance, protection, and every size of motor made–from those used in portable CDs to the motors required by heavy industry.