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Power Electronics and Motor Drives
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Power Electronics and Motor Drives

by Bogdan M. Wilamowski, J. David Irwin
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1015 pages
40h 24m
English
CRC Press
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37.1 Introduction
e electric power system is one of the largest and most complex man-made systems, encompassing
billions of components, tens of millions of kilometers of transmission lines, and thousands of genera-
tors serving a diverse, huge number of consumers. e function of a power system is to generate electric
energy economically and with the minimum ecological disturbance and to transfer this energy over
transmission lines and distribution networks with the maximum eciency and reliability for delivery
to customers at virtually xed voltage and frequency. e conventional power system structure is highly
hierarchical where power ...
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ISBN: 9781439802861