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Introduction – Concepts and fields of application, Extent and treatment of the subject, Classification of converters, Applications, Basic principles of power electronics, Idealized components, Basic laws Electronic Valves – Thyristors, Voltage stress, Current stress, Losses, Thermal design, Mechanical design, Types of cooling, Overload capacity, Turn-off mechanism, Short-circuit protection, Protection from di/dt and over-voltage, Thyristors in series and parallell, Triggering, Diodes, Avalanche diodes, Fast diodes, Schottky diodes, Transistors, Safe operating area Line-commutated Converters – The ideal converter, The diode rectifier, The thyristor converter, Nonsmooth load current, Load with back-emf, Capacitive load, Inverter operation, Converter with nonuniform connection, Converter with freewheeling diode, The commutation of the converter, The voltage drops of the converter, Rectifier operation, Inverter operation, Quadrant operations Load-commutated Inverters – Inverter with a parallel-oscillating circuit, Steady-state operation, Control of a frequency converter, Starting up the frequency converter, Short-circuit, Synchronous motor drives, Inverter with a series-oscillating circuit Self-commutated Converters – Potential diagram of a noncontrolled converter, Modes of operation, Voltage-controlled inverter, Methods of voltage control, General notes about PWM, Synchronous modulation, Harmonic cancellation, Asynchronous modulation, Controlled, self-commutated converter connected to an ac network, The self-commutated double converter, Fields of application, Various single- and three-phase connections DC Converters – DC converters for one-quadrant operation, Step-down converters, Step-up converters, Multiphase dc converters, Motor drives, Indirect dc converters, Two-quadrant dc converters, Four-quadrant converters, Thyristor dc converters, Zero-switching dc converters, Resonant dc converters, Quasi-resonant dc converters AC Converters – Current-stiff, self-commutated
Publisher : Overseas Press
Publication date : 1 January 2005
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 8188689211
ISBN-13 : 978-8188689217
Item Weight : 500 g
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