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Electric Drives (Boldea, I and Nasar, S.A.; 2006) [Book Review]

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Electric Drives
By Ion Boldea and S.A.
Nasar, 2nd edition,
CRC Press, 2006,
hardcover, 518 pages,
ISBN 0-8493-4220-1.
T
he new enlarged second edition
of this excellent textbook pres-
ents the latest concepts and
basic electrical drive technology
including vector and direct torque
control of ac motors and generators.
Several new paragraphs, recent refer-
ences, as well as a complete new
chapter devoted to control of electric
generators has been added. So, the
book now has 15 chapters altogether,
covering the following topics:
1) energy conversion in electric
drives (new: 1.9. Performance
indexes)
2) electric motors for drives (new:
2.6. Energy conversion in electric
motors/generators)
3) power electronic converters for
drives
4) dc brush motor drives (new: 4.12.
The a.c. brush series motor)
5) controlled rectifier dc brush motor
drives [new: 5.10. A.c. brush series
(universal) motor control]
6) chopper-controlled dc brush
motor drives
7) closed-loop motion control in elec-
trical drives
8) induction motors for drives (new:
8.20 The split-phase induction
motor)
9) PWM inverter-fed induction motor
drives
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10) synchronous motor for drives
(new: 10.8 Cogging torque and
tooth-wound PMSMs, 10.9. The sin-
gle-phase PMSM, Steady state per-
formance of single-phase PMSM)
11) PM and reluctance synchronous
motor drives [new: 11.7.5. DTFC-
SVM sensorless control of RSM- a
generic implementation, 11.8 High
frequency (speed) PMSM drives,
11.9 Single-phase PMSM control]
12) switched reluctance motor (SRM)
drives (new: 12.13. Single-phase
SRM control)
13) practical issues with PWM con-
verter motor drives
14) large power drives
15) control of electric generators
(new chapter).
The description of technical mate-
rial is simple with the right amount of
mathematics for undergraduate stu-
dents. Each chapter is supplemented
with adequate, well-selected exam-
ples, summary, problems, and select-
ed references at the end. The
important advantage of the book is an
attached CD that includes text brows-
ing, slides (in PowerPoint) and Matlab-
Simulink programs with eight selected
dc and ac closed-loop drives.
I strongly recommend this well-
balanced textbook as a basic text to
a wide audience of engineering edu-
cators, students, and engineers in
industry. I believe that this up-to-
date second edition of the textbook
will certainly be at least as success-
ful as the first one.
—Marian P. Kazmierkowski
Warsaw University of Technology,
Poland
SPRING 2007 ■ IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE 51
Book News
Integration Technologies for
Industrial Automated Systems
By Richard Zurawski,
Editor, CRC
Press/Taylor & Francis
(Industrial Information
Technology Series),
July 2006, hardcover,
560 pages, ISBN
0849392624.
T
he latest addition to the Indus-
trial Information Technology
book series (CRC Press/Taylor
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Technologies for Industrial Automated
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The book covers a very wide range
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