SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS Second Edition By Lon Boldea

SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS Second Edition By Lon Boldea

Contents:

1 Electric Energy and Electric Generators

2 Principles of Electric Generators

3 Prime Movers

4 Large- and Medium-Power Synchronous Generators: Topologies and Steady State

5 Synchronous Generators: Modeling for Transients

6 Control of Synchronous Generators in Power Systems

7 Design of Synchronous Generators

8 Testing of Synchronous Generators

Preface:

The first edition of this single-author, two-book set was published in 2006. Since then, electric energy, “produced” mostly via electric generators, has become one of the foremost activities in our global economy world. The subject of Electric Generators (Synchronous Generators and Variable Speed Generators as two books) attracted special attention worldwide both from industry and academia in the last decade. Electric generators’ design and control may constitute a new graduate course in universities with electric power programs. Also, in the design and control of electric generators for applications ranging from energy conversion to electric vehicles (transportation) and auxiliary power sources, new knowledge and developments have been published in the last ten years. In the last ten years, in wind generators alone, the installed power has increased from some 40,000 MW to 300,000 MW (in 2014).