Lecture 1

Introduction
Dr. Franklin Quilumba
Department of Electric Energy
National Polytechnic School
2015-B

Introduction
Electrical machines, devices which convert mechanical power
into electrical power and vice versa, are completely ubiquitous
in the modern world.
They generate electricity in power stations, wipe car
windscreens, run computer fans and perform all manner of
other tasks.
Electric machines are a technology of choice in many modern
energy conversion applications, applications range from tiny
motors for computer hard drives to large-scale industrial
motors and machines for power generation.
http://tcipg.mste.illinois.edu/applet/tt

The BIG picture

Generation (11 36 kV)
Transmission and
distribution (110 765 kV)
Load (0.12 138 kV)
Industrial customer, 23
138 kV
Commercial customer,
4.16 34.5 kV
Residential customer ,
120 240 V

The BIG picture

(Optional) Watch Nikola Tesla available at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPZWjVTjzQE
Revise three-phase circuits and calculations (10/02/2015)
Do 5 exercises about three-phase circuits calculations
(voltages, currents, powers), and 5 more related to
power factor correction.
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Send and email with the following characteristics:

To: franklin.quilumba@epn.edu.ec
Subject: IEE584_2015B Last_nameFirst_name Title
Body:
Full Name (starting with your last name)
Email Address (the one you usually use)
Phone Number (where I can reach you)

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Select two electric machines elite members of the class:

Requirements
Besides submitting a hardcopy of your assignments
MUST Submit all the assignments through email (directly do
in computer, or hand-written hw scan it)
Subject of all emails slightly modified to include
Subject: IEE584_2015B EM Last_nameFirst_name Title

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Links of interest
http://www.ece.umn.edu/users/riaz/animations/
listanimations.html
http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/emc/
https://www.coursera.org/

Some history
Nikola Tesla ( ) (10 July 1856 7 January
1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and
electrical engineer. Born in Serbia, he later became an
American citizen. Tesla is best known for his many
revolutionary contributions to the discipline of electricity
and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of
modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems,
including the poly-phase power distribution systems and the
AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second
Industrial Revolution.

According to legend, Tesla was born precisely at

midnight during an electrical storm

Thank You
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