Power Electronics : Devices And Circuits

V. JAGANNATHAN, Ph.D., is Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Coimbatore. Earlier, he was Professor and Head, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore. He has several years of experience of teaching power electronics to undergraduate and postgraduate students. His areas of interest include modelling and simulation of electrical machines and applications of power electronics to electrical drives.

This book is a new enlarged edition of Introduction to Power Electronics. It is designed for undergraduate students of electrical and electronics engineering and provides an accessible and practical treatment of semiconductor power switching devices and their use in several types of static power converters. The book emphasizes the fundamental principles and offers an easy-to-understand explanation of the operation of practical circuits.

Beginning with the study of the characteristics of power switching devices, the text offers a thorough treatment of ac–ac converters, ac–dc converters, dc–dc converters and inverters, helping students understand how switching converters can be made to generate almost any wave shape and frequency, how power converters are used in conjunction with electric drives, HVDC transmission systems, and so forth.

The topics included in the second edition are :

Ideal and real switches and drive circuits for gate commutation devices

Single phase series converters and twelve pulse converters

Switch mode power supply (SMPS) and switch mode dc–dc converters

Resonant converters and uninterrupted power supply (UPS)

ISBN: 9788120341968
Author: V. JAGANNATHAN
Published by: PHI Learning
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