Power electronics widely uses in solid-state electronics to the conversion and management control of electric power. Nonlinear, time-varying, energy-processing electronic systems with rapid dynamics are the focus of this field of study in electronic and electrical engineering, which includes the design, control, computing, and integration of such systems. Power electronics are being used more and more often in everyday life, from homes to businesses to factories to cars to planes to satellites to cell phones. A control systems engineer, electrical engineer, or electronics engineer must be familiar with the fundamental components of electronic control systems. As a result, power electronics is now a required course of study for all aspiring engineers at the bachelor's and master's degrees. For all engineering majors, Power Electronics Fundamentals and Applications will be required reading. In order to facilitate learning, the information has been organised into manageable modules and presented in a systematic manner. The language is straightforward, such that even a novice learner should have no trouble grasping the concepts discussed. This book brings together the most up-to-date topic matter with a thorough examination of the underlying theory, design, modelling, and application of power electronics and drives.

Fundamentals of Power Electronics, Third Edition, is an up-to-date and authoritative text and reference book on power electronics. This new edition retains the original objective and philosophy of focusing on the fundamental principles, models, and technical requirements needed for designing practical power electronic systems while adding a wealth of new material. Improved features of this new edition include: new material on switching loss mechanisms and their modeling; wide bandgap semiconductor devices; a more rigorous treatment of averaging; explanation of the Nyquist stability criterion; incorporation of the Tan and Middlebrook model for current programmed control; a new chapter on digital control of switching converters; major new chapters on advanced techniques of design-oriented analysis including feedback and extra-element theorems; average current control; new material on input filter design; new treatment of averaged switch modeling, simulation, and indirect power; and sampling effects in DCM, CPM, and digital control. Fundamentals of Power Electronics, Third Edition, is intended for use in introductory power electronics courses and related fields for both senior undergraduates and first-year graduate students interested in converter circuits and electronics, control systems, and magnetic and power systems. It will also be an invaluable reference for professionals working in power electronics, power conversion, and analog and digital electronics.

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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

Market_Desc: · Electrical Engineering Students · Electrical Engineering Instructors· Power Electronics Engineers Special Features: · Easy to follow step-by-step in depth treatment of all the theory.· Computer simulation chapter describes the role of computer simulations in power electronics. Examples and problems based on Pspice and MATLAB are included.· Introductory chapter offers a review of basic electrical and magnetic circuit concepts.· A new CD-ROM contains the following:· Over 100 of new problems of varying degrees of difficulty for homework assignments and self-learning.· PSpice-based simulation examples, which illustrate basic concepts and help in design of converters.· A newly-developed magnetic component design program that demonstrates design trade-offs.· PowerPoint-based slides, which will improve the learning experience and the ease of using the book About The Book: 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.

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