Magnetic Components Design and Applications is intended primarily for
the circuit designer and the power processing systems designer who have
found that in order to be more effective they must learn not only to
use, but to design their own magnetic components. It will also be useful
to the trans- former engineer, by showing how to develop
high-performance designs quickly and easily by employing optimization
criteria. This book is a design manual, a how-to-build-it manual, and a
survey of some common and state-of-the-art practices in magnetic
component design and high voltage insulation. It contains the data
necessary to design power transformers on a gradient scale from 60 Hz to
several hundred kilohertz, conventional and air-core current
transformers, power reactors, saturable transformers and saturable
reactors, and air core and conventional pulse transformers. Further, it
con- tains essential information about dielectric materials and
fabrication meth- ods, basic heat transfer technology, and electric
field gradient control for high voltage applications. Mathematical
methods of optimization are developed, and results are given in a number
of areas, particularly in the area of maximizing power den- sity in
power transformers and the maximization of stored energy per unit volume
for power reactors. For various reasons, each chapter is written from a
different starting level.
