1st Edition
Power Electronics, Drives, and Advanced Applications
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
Biography
Vinod Kumar is faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of Ag. & Technology, Udaipur, India. His current research interests include power electronics, power quality, and wind power generation. He is an Associate Editor of reputed journal IET-Renewable Power Generation. He is a Fellow Institution of Engineers (India).
Ranjan Kumar Behera is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Patna, where he became ‘Head of the Department’ in Jan. 2016. His current research interests include power electronic, electric motor drives, and nonlinear control applications.
Dheeraj Joshi is presently working as Professor in department of Electrical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India. His present research interests are renewable power generation, power electronics and application of AI techniques.
Ramesh Bansal is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Sharjah.
His diversified research interests are in the areas of Renewable Energy (Wind, PV, DG, Micro Grid) and Smart Grid. Professor Bansal is an editor of several highly regarded journals, IET-RPG and IEEE Systems Journals, Electric Power Components and Systems, and Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy.
