Atif Iqbal

Protection of Electrical Power Transmission Systems: Smart Grid and Microgrid Operations and Control provides a thorough examination of power distribution system components, architecture, and common vulnerabilities. This classroom-tested textbook introduces the techniques and technologies used to protect distribution systems, explaining the concepts of protection overlay, unit protection, and non-unit protection. It also examines the role and importance of providing backup protection to ensure the power system remains protected even when the protection system fails. The book emphasizes that understanding the subject is best achieved by working with schemes and exploring the history behind their development, enabling readers to delve deeper into the specifics of the subject. Exercises and self-assessment questions addressing a broad range of technical questions are provided to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the design and manufacturing process to establish seamless topologies of protection control schemes. Coverage includes relevant regulations and standards to ensure compliance with industry requirements, emerging trends, and technologies to future-proof systems against evolving threats and leverage cutting-edge innovations.

Comprehensive reference on safeguarding electrical power systems from faults and failures, exploring emerging technologies such as AI and ML Supported by case studies of real-world power system faults, Protection of Electrical Power Distribution Systems offers an in-depth examination of the methods and technologies used to safeguard electrical grids from faults and failures. The book begins with a comprehensive introduction to power system fundamentals, emphasizing the critical role of protection mechanisms in maintaining system stability and ensuring operational safety. It thoroughly explores various types of faults, including short circuits, ground faults, and overloads, detailing their potential impacts on system performance, reliability, and safety. The book introduces foundational concepts such as protection overlay, unit protection, and non-unit protection, before diving into the core principles of power system protection. These include the key attributes of selectivity, sensitivity, speed, and reliability, essential for designing effective protection systems. A detailed discussion follows on the wide range of protective devices used in modern power systems, such as fuses, circuit breakers, and relays, along with strategies for their coordination to ensure optimal performance. To enhance reader engagement and understanding, the book includes practical exercises and self-assessment questions that focus on protection system design and implementation. These tools encourage deeper learning and provide valuable insights into the real-world application of power system protection technologies. Protection of Electrical Power Distribution Systems includes information on: Differences between restricted and unrestricted protection and criteria to determine ideal boundaries of protection zonesModern technologies applied to protection such as digital relays and intelligent electronic devices (IEDs)Different kinds of busbar protection and the main types of faults affecting the busbarTypes of transformer protection and their constraints and the operation of current and voltage transformersFuture trends in the field such as the application of AI and ML in predictive maintenance and fault diagnosis. Protection of Electrical Power Distribution Systems serves as an essential reference for engineers, researchers, and students, offering a deep understanding of power system protection principles and practices to enhance the reliability and safety of electrical power systems.

Multiphase Power Electronic Converters: Modulation, Control, and Applications is a comprehensive guide to multiphase power converters, which have become the standard for improving efficiency, power density, and overall system performance in a variety of applications, including, e-mobility, ship propulsion, mining, defense, and renewable energy systems. The book begins by introducing the different types and topologies of multiphase convertors, before delving into the central ideas, design principles, control strategies, and key and emerging applications, with detailed chapters supported by real-world examples and analysis. This will be valuable for engineers, researchers, and graduate students who want to understand and utilize the potential of multiphase power converters, addressing key challenges and enabling the reader to design and implement more efficient, reliable, and sustainable power electronic systems for various applications.

High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab®/Simulink Explore this indispensable update to a popular graduate text on electric drive techniques and the latest converters used in industryThe Second Edition of High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab®/Simulink delivers an updated and thorough overview of topics central to the understanding of AC motor drive systems. The book includes new material on medium voltage drives, covering state-of-the-art technologies and challenges in the industrial drive system, as well as their components, and control, current source inverter-based drives, PWM techniques for multilevel inverters, and low switching frequency modulation for voltage source inverters. This book covers three-phase and multiphase (more than three-phase) motor drives including their control and practical problems faced in the field (e.g., adding LC filters in the output of a feeding converter), are considered. The new edition contains links to Matlab®/Simulink models and PowerPoint slides ideal for teaching and understanding the material contained within the book. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of:A thorough introduction to high performance drives, including the challenges and requirements for electric drives and medium voltage industrial applicationsAn exploration of mathematical and simulation models of AC machines, including DC motors and squirrel cage induction motorsA treatment of pulse width modulation of power electronic DC-AC converter, including the classification of PWM schemes for voltage source and current source invertersExaminations of harmonic injection PWM and field-oriented control of AC machinesVoltage source and current source inverter-fed drives and their controlModelling and control of multiphase motor drive systemSupported with a companion website hosting online resources. Perfect for senior undergraduate, MSc and PhD students in power electronics and electric drives, High Performance Control of AC Drives with Matlab®/Simulink will also earn a place in the libraries of researchers working in the field of AC motor drives and power electronics engineers in industry.

A comprehensive text, combining all important concepts and topics of Electrical Machines and featuring exhaustive simulation models based on MATLAB/Simulink Electrical Machine Fundamentals with Numerical Simulation using MATLAB/Simulink provides readers with a basic understanding of all key concepts related to electrical machines (including working principles, equivalent circuit, and analysis). It elaborates the fundamentals and offers numerical problems for students to work through. Uniquely, this text includes simulation models of every type of machine described in the book, enabling students to design and analyse machines on their own. Unlike other books on the subject, this book meets all the needs of students in electrical machine courses. It balances analytical treatment, physical explanation, and hands-on examples and models with a range of difficulty levels. The authors present complex ideas in simple, easy-to-understand language, allowing students in all engineering disciplines to build a solid foundation in the principles of electrical machines. This book: Includes clear elaboration of fundamental concepts in the area of electrical machines, using simple language for optimal and enhanced learning Provides wide coverage of topics, aligning with the electrical machines syllabi of most international universities Contains extensive numerical problems and offers MATLAB/Simulink simulation models for the covered machine types Describes MATLAB/Simulink modelling procedure and introduces the modelling environment to novices Covers magnetic circuits, transformers, rotating machines, DC machines, electric vehicle motors, multiphase machine concept, winding design and details, finite element analysis, and more Electrical Machine Fundamentals with Numerical Simulation using MATLAB/Simulink is a well-balanced textbook perfect for undergraduate students in all engineering majors. Additionally, its comprehensive treatment of electrical machines makes it suitable as a reference for researchers in the field.

Intelligent Data-Analytics for Condition Monitoring: Smart Grid Applications looks at intelligent and meaningful uses of data required for an optimized, efficient engineering processes. In addition, the book provides application perspectives of various deep learning models for the condition monitoring of electrical equipment. With chapters discussing the fundamentals of machine learning and data analytics, the book is divided into two parts, including i) The application of intelligent data analytics in Solar PV fault diagnostics, transformer health monitoring and faults diagnostics, and induction motor faults and ii) Forecasting issues using data analytics which looks at global solar radiation forecasting, wind data forecasting, and more. This reference is useful for all engineers and researchers who need preliminary knowledge on data analytics fundamentals and the working methodologies and architecture of smart grid systems.