This book introduces the concepts of more electric aircraft and aviation electrical appliances, as well as the aviation experimental platform of vacuum switches, the interruption characteristics, frequency characteristics and post-arc breakdown characteristics of intermediate frequency vacuum switches, etc. It is the first monograph on protection electrical appliances, vacuum interrupter in aviation variable frequency power system. This book includes a lot of experimental process and chart analysis for readers to understand and provides references for practical engineering problems. This book could be used as references for engineers and technicians working on electric power systems in aircrafts.

Yuan Jiang is a doctor of electrical engineering, whose main research field is electrical appliances theory and application in aviation. He is currently a lecturer at the School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. He is member of China Electrotechnical Society, member of Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering and IEEE member. He is reviewer for Proceedings of The Chinese Society for Electrical Engineering, International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science and IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification. As the project leader, he has successively undertaken the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and basic prospective project of State Grid Corporation of China. He has won the honorary title of excellent postdoctoral in Beihang University, and won one first prize in science and technology at the provincial and ministerial level. Qing Li is a professor and doctoral supervisor of the School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing. He received the B.E. degree from the North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China, in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and its applications from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2000. He was a Visiting Scholar with Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada, from 2006 to 2007. His research interests include intelligent control and intelligent optimization.