Power Electronics : Converters, Applications, and Design
- 3rd
- New Delhi Wiley India Pvt. Ltd. India 2015,c2003
- 802
The text includes cohesive presentation of power electronics fundamentals for applications and design in the power range of 500 kW or less. It describes a variety of practical and emerging power electronic converters made feasible by the new generation of power semiconductor devices. Topics included in this book are an expanded discussion of diode rectifiers and thyristor converters as well as chapters on heat sinks, magnetic components which present a step-by-step design approach and a computer simulation of power electronics which introduces numerical techniques and commonly used simulation packages such as PSpice, MATLAB and EMTP.
Contents:
Part I Introduction
· Power Electronic Systems
· Overview of Power Semiconductor Switches
· Review of Basic Electrical and Magnetic Circuit Concepts
· Computer Simulation of Power Electronic Converters and Systems
Part II Generic Power Electronic Circuits
· Line-Frequency Diode Rectifiers: Line-Frequency ac Uncontrolled dc.
· Line-Frequency Phase-Controlled Rectifiers and Inverters: Line-Frequency ac Controlled dc