Electrical engineering

High-Temperature Cuprate Superconductors provides an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the properties of these fascinating materials.

An important consideration for energy-efficient buildings is their primary energy requirements over the entire life cycle.

Several emerging application areas are driving a revival in nuclear engineering, including new nuclear reactor designs (advanced water-cooled reactors, small modular reactors, and microreactors) and their various applications beyond electricity production and a revolution in nuclear medicine, nuclear space exploration, hydrogen production, and homeland security.

The American experience with respect to electrical power production has undergone and is undergoing considerable evolution.

Dieses Buch untersucht das Potenzial von magnetischen Supraleitern in Speichersystemen, wobei der Fokus auf supraleitenden magnetischen Energiespeichersystemen (SMES) liegt und das spanische Stromnetz, das von Red Electrica de Espana (REE) kontrolliert wird, als Beispiel dient.

This classroom-tested text offers students an overview of classical and recent state estimation techniques in power systems.

This book covers several cutting-edge topics and provides a direct follow-up to former publications such as "e;Intent-based Networking"e; and "e;Emerging Networking"e;, bringing together the latest network technologies and advanced AI applications.

This book introduces computing and programming with undergraduate engineering students in mind.

Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space addresses robot control in depth, treating a range of model-based controllers in detail: proportional derivative; proportional integral derivative; computed torque and some adaptive variants.

Although nonlinear control is traditionally an area of interest in process systems engineering which is of great practical importance, many process engineers have difficulty with the paradigms and results of modern nonlinear control theory because they lack the mathematical background usually associated with such methods or because of their computational difficulty and small-scale applicability in the general case.

Multivariable Control Systems focuses on control design with continual references to the practical aspects of implementation.

This book provides the most important steps and concerns in the design of estimation and control algorithms for induction motors.

Small Wind Turbines provides a thorough grounding in analysing, designing, building, and installing a small wind turbine.

Although conventional cogeneration systems have been used successfully in the last two decades, most of them have been large units using mainly hydrocarbon fuels that are becoming increasingly expensive.

Fossil fuels are widely used for electricity generation and heating, creating greenhouse gas emissions and other toxic pollutants, which should be minimised according to the most recent environmental legislation.

Fault Location on Power Lines enables readers to pinpoint the location of a fault on power lines following a disturbance.

"e;EHV AC Undergrounding Electrical Power"e; discusses methods of analysis for cable performance and for the behaviour of cable, mixed and overhead lines.

"e;Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy in PEM Fuel Cells"e; discusses one of the most powerful and useful diagnostic tools for various aspects of the study of fuel cells: electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS).

Industrial biorefineries have been identified as the most promising routes to the creation of a bio-based economy.

Green Energy: Basic Concepts and Fundamentals addresses the need for diversity within energy systems.

"e;Risks in Technological Systems"e; is an interdisciplinary university textbook and a book for the educated reader on the risks of today's society.

Drives and Control for Industrial Automation presents the material necessary for an understanding of servo control in automation.

Model Predictive Control System Design and Implementation Using MATLAB(R) proposes methods for design and implementation of MPC systems using basis functions that confer the following advantages: - continuous- and discrete-time MPC problems solved in similar design frameworks; - a parsimonious parametric representation of the control trajectory gives rise to computationally efficient algorithms and better on-line performance; and - a more general discrete-time representation of MPC design that becomes identical to the traditional approach for an appropriate choice of parameters.

Spotlight on Modern Transformer Design introduces a novel approach to transformer design using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in combination with finite element method (FEM).

"e;Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems"e; provides a comprehensive coverage of reliability issues and their corresponding countermeasures in the field of large-scale digital control systems, from the hardware and software in digital systems to the human operators who supervise the overall process of large-scale systems.

Fuel Cell Micro-grids describes an energy supply method based on a network of two or more proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEM-FC).

Optimal Control of Wind Energy Systems is a thorough review of the main control issues in wind power generation, covering many industrial application problems.

Nonlinear and Adaptive Control with Applications provides a detailed treatment of the design of robust adaptive controllers for nonlinear systems with uncertainties.

"e;Hydrogen-based Autonomous Power Systems"e; analyses the introduction of hydrogen energy technologies in autonomous power systems based on renewable energy sources (RES).

this part is supported by two useful appendices on some of the mathematical tools used and the physical units of plasma physics.

"e;Power Electronics in Smart Electrical Energy Networks"e; introduces a new viewpoint on power electronics, re-thinking the basic philosophy governing electricity distribution systems.