Power Electronics, Drives, and Advanced Applications

Concern for reliable power supply and energy-efficient system design has led to usage of power electronics-based systems, including efficient electric power conversion and power semiconductor devices. This book provides integration of complete fundamental theory, design, simulation and application of power electronics, and drives covering up-to-date subject components. It contains twenty-one chapters arranged in four sections on power semiconductor devices, basic power electronic converters, advanced power electronics converters, power supplies, electrical drives and advanced applications. Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering and power electronics including related professionals, this book

• Includes electrical drives such as DC motor, AC motor, special motor, high performance motor drives, solar, electrical/hybrid vehicle and fuel cell drives
• Reviews advances in renewable energy technologies (wind, PV, hybrid power systems) and their integration
• Explores topics like distributed generation, microgrid, and wireless power transfer system
• Includes simulation examples using MATLAB®/Simulink and over four hundred solved, unsolved and review problems

Preface

Section I : Power Semiconductor Devices
Chapter 1 : Overview of Power Electronics
Chapter 2 : Power Semiconductor Devices
Chapter 3 : Silicon-Controlled Rectifier

Section II : Power Electronic Converters
Chapter 4 : Phase-Controlled Rectifiers
Chapter 5 : Semiconverters
Chapter 6 : Chopper
Chapter 7 : DC-to-AC Converter: Inverter
Chapter 8 : AC Voltage Controllers
Chapter 9 : Cycloconverter
Chapter 10 : Switched-Mode Power Supplies
Chapter 11 : Multipulse Converter

Section III : Electrical Drives
Chapter 12 : Introduction of Electrical Drives
Chapter 13 : Control of DC Motor Drives
Chapter 14 : Control of Induction Motor Drives
Chapter 15 : FPGA-Based Fuzzy-Logic Control of DTC for Matrix-Converter-Fed Induction-Motor Drives
Chapter 16 : Control of Synchronous and Special Motor Drives

Section IV : Advanced Power Electronics Applications
Chapter 17 : Electric/Hybrid Electric Vehicles
Chapter 18 : Power Electronics Applications in Power Systems
Chapter 19 : Power Electronics Application in Renewable Energy (Wind and PV) System Integration
Chapter 20 : Distributed Generation and Microgrids
Chapter 21 : Wireless Power Transfer

Index