Topics Covered

Special machines: series universal motor, permanent magnet DC motor, unipolar and bipolar brushless DC motors, stepper motor and control circuits. Reluctance and hysteresis motors with drive circuits, switched reluctance motor, electro static motor, repulsion motor, synchros and control transformers. Permanent magnet synchronous motors. Acyclic machines: Generators, conduction pump and induction pump. Magneto hydrodynamic generators. Fuel Cells, thermoelectric generators, flywheels. Vector control, linear motors and traction. Photovoltaic systems: stand alone and grid interfaced. Wind turbine generators: induction generator, AC-DC-AC conversion.