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Power Electronics Handbook

  • 5th Edition - September 27, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Muhammad H. Rashid
  • Language: English

Power Electronics Handbook, Fifth Edition delivers an expert guide to power electronics and their applications. The book examines the foundations of power electronics, power semico… Read more

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Description

Power Electronics Handbook, Fifth Edition delivers an expert guide to power electronics and their applications. The book examines the foundations of power electronics, power semiconductor devices, and power converters, before reviewing a constellation of modern applications. Comprehensively updated throughout, this new edition features new sections addressing current practices for renewable energy storage, transmission, integration, and operation, as well as smart-grid security, intelligent energy, artificial intelligence, and machine learning applications applied to power electronics, and autonomous and electric vehicles. This handbook is aimed at practitioners and researchers undertaking projects requiring specialist design, analysis, installation, commissioning, and maintenance services.

Key features

  • Provides a fully comprehensive work addressing each aspect of power electronics in painstaking depth
  • Delivers a methodical technical presentation in over 1500 pages
  • Includes 50+ contributions prepared by leading experts
  • Offers practical support and guidance with detailed examples and applications for lab and field experimentation
  • Includes new technical sections on smart-grid security and intelligent energy, artificial intelligence, and machine learning applications applied to power electronics and autonomous and electric vehicles
  • Features new chapter level templates and a narrative progression to facilitate understanding

Readership

Practicing electrical engineers involved in the operation, design and analysis of power electronics equipment and motor drives, students in electrical and systems engineering, focused on power electronics, Power Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Industrial Engineers, 1st year PhD students and similar early career researchers working on electrical and systems engineering, focusing on power electronics and power processing with application potential

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Semiconductor Diodes and Transistors 15

3. Thyristors

4. Static Induction Devices

5. SiC and GaN Power Semiconductor Devices

6. Power Electronic Modules

7. Diode Rectifiers

8. Single-Phase Controlled Rectifiers

9. Three-Phase Controlled Rectifiers

10. DC-DC Converters

11. Inverters

12. Resonant and Soft-switching Converters

13. Multilevel Power Converters

14. AC-AC Converters

15. Multiphase Converters

16. Power Factor Correction Circuits

17. Magnetic Circuit Design for Power Electronics

18. Solid-State Pulsed Power Modulators and Capacitor Charging Applications

19. Uninterruptible Power Supplies

20. Power Supplies

21. Electronic Ballasts

22. Wireless Power Transfer

23. Photovoltaic System Conversion

24. Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Sources

25. Electric Power Transmission

26. HVDC Transmission

27. Flexible AC Transmission Systems

28. Power Electronics for Wave Energy

29. Power Electronics for Distributed Energy

30. Power Electronics in Smart-Grid

31. Power Grid Resilience

32. Drive Types and Specifications

33. Electric Motor Drives

34. Power Electronics in Transportation

35. Linear and Nonlinear Control of Switching Power Converters

36. Fuzzy-Logic Applications in Electric Drives and Power Electronics

37. DSP-Based Control of Variable Speed Drives

38. Predictive Control of Power Electronic Converters

39. Active Power Filters

40. EMI Effects of Power Converters

41. Power Electronics Standards

42. Computer Simulation of Power Electronics and Motor Drives

43. Design for Reliability of Power Electronic Systems

44. Thermal Modeling and Analysis of Power Electronic Components and Systems

Product details

  • Edition: 5
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 21, 2023
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Muhammad H. Rashid

Muhammad H. Rashid is Professor and Director of Cybersecurity Engineering Opportunities at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Cybersecurity Engineering, Florida Polytechnic University. He is an internationally recognized teacher, author, and researcher in Power and Energy. He has contributed to numerous works from international publishers of repute. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and a fellow of IET. He also served as an Engineering Accreditor of the Institution of Engineering & Technology, UK.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Florida Polytechnic University, USA

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