**Meet the editor**

Rui Esteves Araújo received the electrical engineering graduation, M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Portugal in 1987, 1992 and 2001, respectively. From 1987 to 1988, he was an Electrotechnical Engineer in Project Department, Adira Company, Porto, Portugal, and from 1988 to 1989, he was researcher with INESC, Porto, Portugal. Since 1989, he has been with the University of Porto, where he is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering at Faculty of Engineering. His research interests include energy efficiency in electric machines, design and control of power converters, industrial electronics applications to distributed power generation systems based on renewable energies and motion control applied to electric vehicles.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Sorin Muşuroi

Marija Mirošević

Chapter 5 **Effects of Voltage Quality on** 

Miloje Kostic

Chapter 3 **The Dynamics of Induction Motor Fed** 

Chapter 1 **Mathematical Model of the Three-Phase Induction** 

**Machine for the Study of Steady-State and Transient Duty Under Balanced and Unbalanced States 3**  Alecsandru Simion, Leonard Livadaru and Adrian Munteanu

Chapter 2 **The Behavior in Stationary Regime of an Induction Motor Powered by Static Frequency Converters 45** 

**Directly from the Isolated Electrical Grid 73** 

Chapter 4 **Modelling and Analysis of Squirrel Cage Induction Motor with Leading Reactive Power Injection 99** 

**Induction Motors' Efficient Energy Usage 127** 

Chapter 6 **Role of Induction Motors in Voltage Instability and Coordinated Reactive Power Planning 157**  Venkat Krishnan and James D. McCalley

Chapter 7 **Optimization of Induction Motors Using Design** 

Marcel Janda, Ondrej Vitek and Vitezslav Hajek

Houssem Rafik El-Hana Bouchekara, Mohammed Simsim and Makbul Anwari

Chapter 8 **Noise of Induction Machines 207** 

Adisa A. Jimoh, Pierre-Jac Venter and Edward K. Appiah

**of Experiments and Particle Swarm Optimization 181** 

**Section 1 Modelling 1** 
