Series: Electrical Engineering   Publisher: CRC PRESS (Taylor & Francis Group) www.crcpress.com   List Price: $139.95 Cat. #: 69829 ISBN: 9781420069822 ISBN 10: 1420069829 Publication Date: 1/22/2008 Number of Pages: 424 Availability: In Stock

About the book

Is  it  is  possible  today  to  design and make automatic devices for industrial  and  power  engineering  uses  without  microcircuits  and microprocessors,  without  complex  power  supplies  for  them? “Yes!” asserts the author of the book, Dr. Vladimir Gurevich, and as proof of this  assertion  provides  descriptions  of tens of original automatic devices  based on modern discrete components: high-voltage transistors and  thyristors,  miniature  vacuum  and  high  power  gas  filed reed switches,  and  combinations of them. Such devices turn out to be much more simple and, in many cases, more reliable than the traditional devices made today.  To make the material more accessible to a broad spectrum of readers, the author begins the book with an explanation of the working principles of semi-conductor devices of various types and, further, through the description of elementary functional modules, passes on to complete automatic devices.  The book finishes with extensive reference material on modern high-voltage bipolar, FET and IGBT transistors, thyristors and triacs, reed switches, especially selected by the author.

THE BOOK CAN BE USED AS

* Textbook for studying principles and construction of automatic devices on discrete components;
* Source of ideas and solutions for the development or modernization of electronic  switches,  generators,  timers, logic elements, regulators and   voltage  stabilizers,  relay  protection  against  overloads  or emergency modes;
* A complete set of descriptions of the original devices ready-for-use;
* Handbook of modern discrete elements of automatics.

1 Solid-State Electronics Elements
1.1 Semiconducting Materials and p-n-Junction
1.2 The Transistor’s Principle
1.3 Some Transistor Kinds
1.4 Bipolar Transistor General Modes
1.5 Transistor Devices in Switching Mode
1.6 Thyristors
1.7 Control of Thyristors on Direct Current
1.8 Control of Thyristors on Alternating Current
1.9 Diac, Triac, Quadrac

2 Reed Switches
2.1 What Is It?
2.2 Polarized and Memory Reed Switches
2.3 Power Reed Switches

3 High-Voltage Reed Relays
3.1 HV Reed Relays for Low Current DC Circuits
3.2 HV Reed Relays for High Current Applications
3.3 Relay Responding to the Current Changing Rate
3.4 Differential HV Reed Relay
3.5 Reed-Based Devices for Current Measurement in High Potential Circuits
3.6 Spark-Arresting Circuits for Reed Relays

4 Elementary Function Modules
4.1 Switching Devices
4.2 Generators, Multivibrators, Pulse-Pairs
4.3 Timers
4.4 Logic Elements
4.5 Overcurrent and Overvoltage Protection Modules
4.6 Voltage Stabilizers and Regulators
4.7 Other Functional Modules for Automatic Devices

5 Simple Protective Relays on Discrete Components
5.1 Universal Overcurrent Protective Relay
5.2 Simple Very High-Speed Overcurrent Protection Relay
5.3 The New Generation Universal Purpose Hybrid Reed-Solid-State Protective Relays
5.4 Automatic High-Voltage Circuit Breakers
5.5 High-Speed Voltage Unbalance Relay
5.6 Impulse Action Protective Relay

6 Improvement of Microprocessor-Based Protective Relays
6.1 Power Supply of Microprocessor-Based Protective Relays at Emergency Mode
6.2 Increasing Reliability of Trip Contacts in Microprocessor-Based Protective Relays

7 Automatic Devices for Power Engineering
7.1 Arc Protection Device for Switchboards 6 – 24 kV
7.2 Automatic-Reset Short Circuit Indicator for 6 – 24 kV Bus Bars
7.3 High-Current Pulse Transducer for Metal-Oxide Surge Arrester
7.4 Current Transformers’ Protection from Secondary Circuit Disconnection
7.5 A Single-Phase Short Circuit Indicator for Internal HV Cables in Medium Voltage Substation
7.6 Ground Circuit Fault Indicator for Underground HV Cable Network
7.7 HV Indicators for Switchgears and Switchboards

Appendices:

  Appendix A1: High-Speed Miniature Reed Switches
  Appendix A2: High-Voltage Vacuum Reed Switches
  Appendix A3: Mercury Wetted Reed Switches
  Appendix A4: Industrial Dry Reed Switches
  Appendix B1: High-Voltage Bipolar Transistors
  Appendix B2: High-Voltage Darlington Transistors
  Appendix B3: High-Voltage FET Transistors
  Appendix B4: High-Voltage IGBT Transistors
  Appendix C: High-Voltage Thyristors
  Appendix D: High-Voltage Triacs
  Appendix E: Bilateral Voltage-Trigger Switches