Electrical Sustainable Energy for Mechanical Engineering

by Masaaki Okubo

Overview

This book describes fundamentals and applications on electrical sustainable energy for Mechanical Engineering. The main objective of this book is to provide readers with an easy-to-understand resource on the foundations and application of electrical sustainable energy. This book was specifically crafted with the intention to serve as a resource for students in the third year through graduate school, particularly in departments other than electrical engineering such as mechanical engineering departments at universities. The aim is to provide foundational knowledge on sustainable electrical energy and energy conversion principles. The topics addressed are those which the author found beneficial in the pursuit of mechanical engineering research and are related to sustainable electrical engineering. It is designed to be covered within a semester of 15 weeks (90 minutes per week), structured into nine chapters. Specifically, it is suggested that chapters 1 and 2 be taught over 4 weeks, chapters 4 to 7 over 6 weeks, and chapters 8 and 9 across 5 weeks. Furthermore, each chapter has comprehensive exercise problems and is projected to cover approximately eight problems in two weeks. These exercises can either be conducted as in-class integrative practice or assigned as weekly homework tasks, with the intention of nurturing problem-solving capabilities in students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789819651696
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	07/15/2025
Pages:	203
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Masaaki Okubo received the B. Eng., M. Eng., and Ph. D. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1985, 1987, and 1990, respectively. His current research interests are nonthermal plasma applications for air pollution control, material surface modification, and numerical simulations of plasmas, aerosols and multiphase fluid flows in environmental engineering. He was a chairman of Electrostatics Process Committee of the IEEE Industry Applications Society, and the fellow of IEEE and Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME).

Table of Contents

1. Basic Laws of Electrical Circuits.- 2. AC linear circuit element.- 3. Fundamentals of AC electrical circuits and AC equipment.- 4. Fundamentals of AC electrical circuits and AC equipment.- 5. Impedance matching and energy conversion.