Basics of Electrical Transformers (2)

Embark on a journey through the realm of electrical transformers in this comprehensive course designed to deepen your understanding from fundamentals to advanced principles.

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Embark on a journey through the realm of electrical transformers in this comprehensive course designed to deepen your understanding from fundamentals to advanced principles. Through a series of dynamic video lectures and solved examples, you'll explore every facet of transformers, from their construction and operation to intricate details of their behavior.

Begin with an introduction to electrical transformers, where you'll grasp the fundamental concepts that underpin their operation.

Delve into the intricacies of transformer construction and operation, understanding the nuances of single-phase transformers and the ideal transformer model.

Master the phasor diagram of an ideal transformer and delve into the E.M.F equation of a Transformer to gain insight into their behavior under different conditions. Understand the significance of polarity in transformer windings and solve practical questions to reinforce your learning.

Progress through the complexities of transformer losses, both theoretical and practical, and explore the exact and approximate equivalent circuits to analyze transformer performance accurately. Dive into the phasor diagrams of practical transformers under various load conditions, enhancing your ability to analyze real-world transformer behavior.

Explore transformer voltage regulation, efficiency, and parameters, gaining a deep understanding of their performance metrics. Learn about Autotransformers and their applications, solving examples to solidify your comprehension.

Compare core-type transformers with shell-type transformers to understand their design and application differences.

By the end of this course, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of transformers.

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Engineer Ahmed Mahdy

I am Ahmed Mahdy an electrical power engineer, researcher, and the founder of Khadija Academy. I am also an electrical bestselling instructor and have helped more than 70,000 students from 191 countries achieve career success with simple and easy courses in the last 7 years.​ In addition to having a YouTube educational engineering channel called" Khadija Academy", where I regularly post videos related to electrical engineering. In 2018, I was nominated among the top 10% of instructors on Udemy, besides currently ranking among the top instructors in the engineering sector of Udemy.


Some of my published research works in the top electrical engineering journals worldwide:


1- ​Transient stability improvement of wave energy conversion systems connected to power grid using anti-windup-coot optimization strategy - Energy Journal - Impact Factor of 9.0.


2- Nonlinear Modeling and Real-Time Simulation of a Grid-Connected AWS Wave Energy Conversion System - IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy - Impact Factor of 8.8.


3- Modeling and optimal operation of hybrid wave energy and PV system feeding supercharging stations based on golden jackal optimal control strategy - Energy Journal - Impact Factor of 9.​0.


4- State-of-the-Art of the most commonly adopted wave energy conversion systems - Ain Shams Engineering Journal - Impact Factor of 6.0.


5- Optimal Design of Fractional-Order PID Controllers for a Nonlinear AWS Wave Energy Converter Using Hybrid Jellyfish Search and Particle Swarm Optimization - Fractal and Fractional - Impact Factor of 5.4


6- Dynamic performance enhancement of nonlinear AWS wave energy systems based on optimal super-twisting control strategy - Ain Shams Engineering Journal - Impact Factor of 6.0.

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