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Electricity and Electronics for Renewable Energy Technology
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Electricity and Electronics for Renewable Energy Technology

by Ahmad Hemami
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
824 pages
22h 58m
English
CRC Press
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7DC Motors and Generators

OBJECTIVES: After studying this chapter, you will be able to

  • Define a magnetic field
  • Differentiate between a magnet and an electromagnet
  • Determine poles of an electromagnet
  • Express fundamentals of DC electric motors
  • Explain Lorentz force
  • Understand components of a DC machine and the importance of each one
  • Define the characteristic curve for the performance of a machine
  • Explain similarity between a DC motor and a DC generator
  • Describe Faraday’s law in electricity
  • Describe the difference between various types of DC motors
  • Understand the use of different DC motors for different applications
  • Understand the rules of batteries in series and in parallel
  • Explain the conditions to put DC generators in parallel together
  • Define ...
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ISBN: 9781482261783