Cohesive presentation of power electronics fundamentals for applications and design in the power range of 500 kW or less. Describes a variety of practical and emerging power electronic converters made feasible by the new generation of power semiconductor devices. This revised edition includes an expanded discussion of diode rectifiers and thyristor converters as well as new 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. Contains a significantly expanded set of end-of-chapter problems. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This introductory textbook is designed for learning and teaching electric drives in a first course on electric machines.

Product Description: This textbook follows the treatment of electric machines and drives in my earlier textbook "Electric Drives – An Integrative Approach." I have attempted to use the same notation to provide consistency. If I am asked to list three unique features of this book, the following are foremost in my opinion: Keeping it simple without being simplistic, Avoiding unnecessary mathematics, and Providing a “physical” picture as much as possible for visualization purposes...read more