Fundamentals of Electrical Drives

Andre Veltman is a Senior Lecturer at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands and runs his own consulting company, Piak electronic design b.v. Duco W.J. Pulle is a consultant with Zener Electric, Australia and a former Associate Professor of Lund University, Sweden. Rik W. De Doncker is Professor and director of the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA) at RWTH-Aachen University, Germany.

From the reviews: "This book on fundamentals of electrical drives provides the background of modern electrical drives. ... The uniqueness of this book is that the authors use generic models to represent drive components. ... This would be a great book for electrical engineers learning about electric drives and could also be used for a course in electrical drives ... ." (Electrical Insulation Magazine, Vol. 24 (5), September/October, 2008)

• SIMPLE ELECTRO-MAGNETIC CIRCUITS.- THE TRANSFORMER.- THREE-PHASE CIRCUITS.- CONCEPT OF REAL AND REACTIVE POWER.- SPACE VECTOR BASED TRANSFORMER MODELS.- TO ELECTRICAL MACHINES.- VOLTAGE SOURCE CONNECTED SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES.- VOLTAGE SOURCE CONNECTED ASYNCHRONOUS (INDUCTION) MACHINES.- DIRECT CURRENT MACHINES.- ANALYSIS OF A SIMPLE DRIVE SYSTEM.