An electrical drive is the electromechanical system that performs adjustable conversion of electrical energy to mechanical energy of the driven machine. This area of knowledge always was in the highlight of inventers and designers of mechanisms, machines, and equipment for transportation, home appliances, textile and paper mills, pumps, compressors and fans, rolling and cement machine tools and robots. The first chapter focuses on the drive fundamentals. Peculiarities of distributed driving mechanisms, elastic sections, and major electrical machines are explained here. In the second chapter,...

Due to the progress in electronic components and equipment development achieved in the last decades, electrical energy conversion is today a rapidly expanding field of power and electrical engineering. Different kinds of power supplies are used everywhere in normal daily routines at home, office, medicine, industry, and energy transmission machines and processes. The problems this book addresses are the basics of electrical energy conversion with power electronic converters. The goal is to describe, explain and compare different modes of low, middle and high power electronic system...