Power Electronics and Motor Drives

Power Electronics and Motor Drives: Advances and Trends, Second Edition is the perfect resource to keep the electrical engineer up-to-speed on the latest advancements in technologies, equipment and applications. Carefully structured to include both traditional topics for entry-level and more advanced applications for the experienced engineer, this reference sheds light on the rapidly growing field of power electronic operations. New content covers converters, machine models and new control methods such as fuzzy logic and neural network control. This reference will help engineers further understand recent technologies and gain practical understanding with its inclusion of many industrial applications.

Further supported by a glossary per chapter, this book gives engineers and researchers a critical reference to learn from real-world examples and make future decisions on power electronic technology and applications.

• Provides many practical examples of industrial applications
• Updates on the newest electronic topics with content added on fuzzy logic and neural networks
• Presents information from an expert with decades of research and industrial experience

Power electronic engineers; R&D engineers; field engineers; graduate-level electrical engineering students; electrical engineering researchers

1. Energy, Environment and Power Electronics - a General Introduction
2. Power Semiconductor Devices
3. Phase-Controlled Converters and Cycloconverters
4. Voltage- Source Converters
5. Current-Fed Converters
6. Electrical Machines for Variable-Speed Drives
7. Induction Motor Drives
8. Synchronous Motor Drives
9. Computer Simulation and Digital Control
10. Expert System and Applications
11. Fuzzy Logic and Applications
12. Neural Networks and Applications
13. Some Questions and Answers