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<div>Electrical and electronic technology is an important specialized basic course for all the non-electrical engineering specialties. A suitable textbook is an important guarantee of course teaching quality. According to the new trend of reform and development of teaching electrical and electronic technology, a new edition textbook of electrical and electronic technology was finished to meet the requirement of engineering education. The structural system of this textbook is arranged meticulously and tries to have systematicness, simplicity, practicalness and epochal character. The application practice of this textbook shows that it has good effect on teaching non-electrical engineering undergraduates.</div><div></div><div></div><div>This free electrical engineering textbook provides a series of volumes covering electricity and electronics. The information provided is great for students, makers, and professionals who are looking to refresh or expand their knowledge in this field.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>a textbook of electrical technology volume 2 pdf free download</div><div></div><div>Download File: https://t.co/NcL6JbJm4d </div><div></div><div></div><div>This is a fully revised, new edition on the topic of instrumentation and control systems and their application to marine engineering for professional trainees studying Merchant Navy Marine Engineering Certificates of Competency (CoC) as well as Electrical/Marine Engineering undergraduate students. Providing generic technical and practical descriptions of the operation of instrumentation and control devices and systems, this volume also contains mathematic analysis where appropriate.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Addressing this subject area, the domain of Instrumentation Engineers/Technicians as well as Control Engineers, and covering established processes and protocols and extensive developing technology, this textbook is written with the marine engineer in mind, particularly those studying Engineering Knowledge. The content ranges from simple measurement devices, through signal conditioning and digitisation to highly sophisticated automated control and instrumentation systems. </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>It also includes a brand new section on electrical equipment in hazardous areas detailing hazards, gas groups, temperature classifications and types of protection including increased and intrinsic safety and encapsulation, and up-to-date material on the new generation of Liquified Natural Gas carriers, SMART sensors and protocols, as well as computer based systems.</div><div></div><div></div><div>In 1910 it was found that when graphite is added to a rubber mixthe composite material acquired a new property--electrical conductivity. In1934, the production of elemental carbon from acetylene by the'explosion' method began. In Russia, up until 1980, the principalconductive carbon filler in vulcanisates was elemental (acetylene) carbonblack A437-E produced by the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Combine. Its qualitydid not meet the requirements of the developing rubber and other sectors ofindustry, and, as its production technology ruled out any possibility ofpurposeful change in the properties of the carbon black, the demand for itfell away, and the product in a series of rubber formulations was replacedwith acetylene carbon black R-1250 produced in Germany. Since 1994 to thepresent day, of the Russian grades of conductive carbon black (CCB) used, anoverwhelming proportion consists of new types produced in the furnace processfrom liquid hydrocarbons.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Conductive vulcanisates are produced both as elastic and as hardmaterials (ebonites). Their electrical resistivity varies in a widerange--from [10.sub.15] to [10.sub.-5] [ohm] m. "Conductive" isused to describe vulcanisates having a volume resistivity of less than 10[ohm] m, and "antistatic" to describe vulcanisates that have aresistivity of [10.sub.4] - [10.sub.8] [ohm] m [6]. By appropriate selectionof the filler, the volume resistivity of vulcanisates can be varied in a widerange. For all rubbers, with increase in the content of any type of carbonblack, the electrical resistivity of the vulcanisates decreases, approachingthe limiting value--the resistivity of the pure filler, but excessive fillingleads to loss of compositional homogeneity and to deterioration in theprocessing and physicomechanical properties of the vulcanisates. To increasethe degree of dispersion of carbon black in vulcanisates, it is recommendedthat non-ionogenic surfactants be used that are capable of fulfilling in apolymer the functions of internal static eliminators increasing theelectrical conductivity of the polymer composites [7].</div><div></div><div></div><div>With the emergence of vulcanisates filled with conductive carbonblack, the need arose to optimise their composition and productiontechnology. In this context, one of the basic problems was to developconcepts concerning the role of carbon black in the creation of electricalconductivity of vulcanisates. It is assumed that, by increasing the volumefraction of conductive carbon black in the vulcanisate, the mechanism ofconductivity changes from a tunnel to a contact mechanism when theconductivity assumes a critical value [11, 12]. Wiegand [13] and Medalia [8]established that change in the electrical conductivity of vulcanisates beginswith carbon black filling with a mass concentration of about 2.5% andcontinues up until 50% filling. Based on this investigation, it was concludedthat the charge transfer agents are large agglomerates of carbon black, whichform a three-dimensional chain structure in the vulcanisate. With thedevelopment of a technique for microscopic analysis, these conclusions wereconfirmed and supplemented by the fact that the electrical conductivity of avulcanisate with the same type and content of carbon black dependsconsiderably on the type of rubber [14].</div><div></div><div></div><div>The next step to understanding the role of carbon black in theelectrical conductivity of vulcanisates was to investigate the influence ofthe texture of its surface on the volume resistivity. As a result of weightloss in the CCB, pores measuring less than 2 nm appear [26]. Elsewhere [8],Medalia supposed that, as the porosity of the carbon black particlesincreases, there is an increase in their specific surface and in theprobability of agglomeration, as a result of which separation of theagglomerates occurs, which results in a reduction in the conductivity of thevulcanisates. Investigations by Boonstra and Dannenberg [27] contradict this.They determined that furnace black with higher porosity has a higherconductivity in vulcanisates.</div><div></div><div></div><div>Electromagnetics, volume 2 by Steven W. Ellingson is a 216-page peer-reviewed open textbook designed especially for electrical engineering students in the third year of a bachelor of science degree program. It is intended as the primary textbook for the second semester of a two-semester undergraduate engineering electromagnetics sequence. 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Both books are a conglomeration of individual chapters written by authorities in the field, including the editors themselves and anumber of their colleagues at both UK and overseas universities and companies.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div> 7c6cff6d22</div>
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