
Power Electronics and Motor Drives
Advances and Trends
Bimal K. Bose(Author)
Academic Press
Published on 13. September 2006
Book
Hardback
934 pages
978-0-12-088405-6 (ISBN)
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Description
Power 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Diego
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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
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Laminated cover
Illustrations
Approx. 750 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 194 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
1623 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-12-088405-6 (9780120884056)
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Person
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.
Content
Introduction; Power Semiconductor Devices; Phase-Controlled Converters and Cycloconverters; Voltage-Fed Converters and PWM Techniques; Current-Fed Converters; AC Machined for Drives; Induction Motor Drives-Control and Estimation; Synchronus Motor Drives-Control and Estimation; Microprocessor/DSP Priciples and Applications; Fuzzy Logic Pronciples and Applications; Neural Network Principles and Applications