Synchronous Generators, Second Edition

Synchronous Generators, the first of two volumes in the Electric Generators Handbook, offers a thorough introduction to electrical energy and electricity generation, including the basic principles of electric generators.

The book devotes a chapter to the most representative prime mover models for transients used in active control of various generators.

Then, individual chapters explore large- and medium-power synchronous generator topologies, steady state, modeling, transients, control, design, and testing.

Numerous case studies, worked-out examples, sample results, and illustrations highlight the concepts.

Fully revised and updated to reflect the last decade?

€™s worth of progress in the field, this Second Edition adds new sections that:

• Discuss high-power wind generators with fewer or no permanent magnets (PMs)
• Cover PM-assisted DC-excited salient pole synchronous generators
• Present multiphase synchronous machine inductances via the winding function method
• Consider the control of autonomous synchronous generators
• Examine additional optimization design issues
• Illustrate the optimal design of a large wind generator by the Hooke?

  €“Jeeves method

• Detail the magnetic equivalent circuit population-based optimal design of synchronous generators
• Address online identification of synchronous generator parameters
• Explain the small-signal injection online technique
• Explore line switching (on or off) parameter identification for isolated grids
• Describe synthetic back-to-back load testing with inverter supply

The promise of renewable, sustainable energy rests on our ability to design innovative power systems that are able to harness energy from a variety of sources.

Synchronous Generators, Second Edition supplies state-of-the-art tools necessary to design, validate, and deploy the right power generation technologies to fulfill tomorrow's complex energy needs.