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.
- 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
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
Muhammad H. Rashid is an internationally recognized teacher, author, and researcher in Power and Energy. He has published 108 documents indexed by Scopus and has authored or edited numerous books by Academic Press, Pearson, Prentice-Hall and Cengage. Rashid is listed among the top 2% of scientists in a 2018 global list compiled by Stanford University and in the top 1% of the 87,611 scientists in his field of electronics and electrical engineering in the study. He is an IEEE Life Fellow and a fellow of IET.
