
Power Electronics and Motor Drives
Advances and Trends
- 1st Edition - July 28, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Bimal K. Bose
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 0 8 8 4 0 5 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 5 7 3 8 - 3
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Request a sales quotePower electronics is an area of extremely important and rapidly changing technology. Technological advancements in the area contribute to performance improvement and cost reduction, with applications proliferating in industrial, commercial, residential, military and aerospace environments. This book is meant to help engineers operating in all these areas to stay up-to-date on the most recent advances in the field, as well as to be a vehicle for clarifying increasingly complex theories and mathematics. This book will be a cost-effective and convenient way for engineers to get up-to-speed on the latest trends in power electronics.
The reader will obtain the same level of informative instruction as they would if attending an IEEE course or a training session, but without ever leaving the office or living room! The author is in an excellent position to offer this instruction as he teaches many such courses.
The reader will obtain the same level of informative instruction as they would if attending an IEEE course or a training session, but without ever leaving the office or living room! The author is in an excellent position to offer this instruction as he teaches many such courses.
- Self-learning advanced tutorial, falling between a traditional textbook and a professional reference.
- Almost every page features either a detailed figure or a bulleted chart, accompanied by clear descriptive explanatory text.
PRIMARY MARKET: Power Electronics Engineers; also, engineers from industrial, environmental and other electrical disciplines that are involved in power electronics applications
SECONDARY MARKET: engineering students and professionals in continuing education training courses
SECONDARY MARKET: engineering students and professionals in continuing education training courses
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Power Semiconductor Devices
Chapter 3: Phase-Controlled Converters and Cycloconverters
Chapter 4: Voltage-Fed Converters and PWM Techniques
Chapter 5: Current-Fed Converters
Chapter 6: AC Machines for Drives
Chapter 7: Induction Motor Drives – Control and Estimation
Chapter 8: Synchronous Motor Drives – Control and Estimation
Chapter 9: Microprocessor/DSP Principles and Applications
Chapter 10: Fuzzy Logic Principles and Applications
Chapter 11: Neural Network Principles and Applications
Chapter 12: Discussion
Chapter 2: Power Semiconductor Devices
Chapter 3: Phase-Controlled Converters and Cycloconverters
Chapter 4: Voltage-Fed Converters and PWM Techniques
Chapter 5: Current-Fed Converters
Chapter 6: AC Machines for Drives
Chapter 7: Induction Motor Drives – Control and Estimation
Chapter 8: Synchronous Motor Drives – Control and Estimation
Chapter 9: Microprocessor/DSP Principles and Applications
Chapter 10: Fuzzy Logic Principles and Applications
Chapter 11: Neural Network Principles and Applications
Chapter 12: Discussion
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 28, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 936
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780120884056
- eBook ISBN: 9780080457383
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Bimal K. Bose
Dr. Bimal K. Bose (Life Fellow, IEEE) is currently Emeritus Professor in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he has been Endowed Chair Professor (Condra Chair of Excellence) from 1987-2003. Prior to this, he was a research engineer at General Electric Corporate Research and Development (now GE Global Research Center), and faculty member at various universities. He has authored or edited eight books, published more than 200 papers, and holds 21 U.S. patents. He is a recipient of a number of awards and honors that include the IEEE Power Electronics Society William E. Newell Award and the IEEE Millennium Medal. He is Member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
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