Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices & Applications, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (July 19, 2013) © 2014

  • Muhammad H. Rashid University of Florida

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For junior or senior undergraduate students in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

This text covers the basics of emerging areas in power electronics and a broad range of topics such as power switching devices, conversion methods, analysis and techniques, and applications. Its unique approach covers the characteristics of semiconductor devices first, then discusses the applications of these devices for power conversions. Four main applications are included: flexible ac transmissions (FACTs), static switches, power supplies, dc drives, and ac drives.

  • State of the art book–Covers emerging topics in power electronics.
  • Well-written and easy-to-follow.
    • Helps students maintain interest in the text.

  • Numerous worked-out examples.
    • Demonstrates for students the applications of conversion techniques in design and analysis of converter circuits.

  • State-of-the-art power conversion techniques and power semiconductor devices.
    • Keeps students abreast of the latest techniques and devices in the field.

  • Integration of design techniques and problems.
  • Computer-aided design techniques and analysis using PC.
  • Integration of industry-standard software tools.
    • Shows students how to effectively use this important software.

  • Chapter-end review questions and problems.
    • Offers students the opportunity to test their knowledge of concepts learned.

  • Numerous important design formulae.
  • Review of Three-Phase Circuits, Magnetic Circuits, Switching Functions of Converters, Transient Analysis, and Fourier Analysis.
  • An examination of the characteristics of semiconductor devices–Including SCRs, GTOs, BJTs, MOSFETs, SITs, SITHs, IGBTs, MTOs, ETOs, IGCTs, MCTs and Spice device models.

This fourth edition of Power Electronics is a complete revision of the third edition. The major changes include the following:
  • Features bottom-up approach rather than top-down approach - that is, after covering the devices, the converter specifications are introduced before covering the conversion techniques
  • Covering the development of silicon-carbide (SiC) devices
  • Addition of averaging models of dc-dc converters
  • Expanding the state-of-the-art Space Vector Modulation technique
  • The chapter on Static Switches has been deleted
  • Addition of a new chapter on Introduction to Renewable Energy, and covers the state-of-the-art techniques
  • Integrates the gate drive circuits (chapter 17 in the third edition) to the chapters relating to the power devices and converters
  • Expanding the control methods for both dc and ac drives
  • Added explanations in sections and/or paragraphs throughout the book

Preface xvii

About the Author xxiii

Chapter 1 Introduction 1

1.1 Applications of Power Electronics 2

1.2 History of Power Electronics 4

1.3 Types of Power Electronic Circuits 6

1.4 Design of Power Electronics Equipment 10

1.5 Determining the Root-Mean-Square Values of Waveforms 11

1.6 Peripheral Effects 12

1.7 Characteristics and Specifications of Switches 15

1.7.1 Ideal Characteristics 15

1.7.2 Characteristics of Practical Devices 16

1.7.3 Switch Specifications 18

1.8 Power Semiconductor Devices 19

1.9 Control Characteristics of Power Devices 25

1.10 Device Choices 25

1.11 Power Modules 29

1.12 Intelligent Modules 29

1.13 Power Electronics Journals and Conferences 31

Summary 32

References 32

Review Questions 33

Problems 33

 

PART I Power Diodes and Rectifiers 35

Chapter 2 Power Diodes and Switched RLC Circuits 35

2.1 Introduction 36

2.2 Semiconductor Basics 36

2.3 Diode Characteristics 38

2.4 Reverse Recovery Characteristics 41

2.5 Power Diode Types 44

2.5.1 General-Purpose Diodes 44

2.5.2 Fast-Recovery Diodes 45

2.5.3 Schottky Diodes 46

2.6 Silicon Carbide Diodes 46

2.7 Silicon Carbide Schottky Diodes 47

2.8 Spice Diode Model 48

2.9 Series-Connected Diodes 49

2.10 Parallel-Connected Diodes 53

2.11 Diode Switched RC Load 54

2.12 Diode Switched RL Load 56

2.13 Diode Switched LC Load 58

2.14 Diode Switched RLC Load 61

2.15 Frewheeling Diodes With Switched RL Load 65

2.16 Recovery of Trapped Energy with a Diode 68

Summary 72

References 72

Review Questions 73

Problems 73

 

Chapter 3 Diode Rectifiers 79

3.1 Introduction 80

3.2 Performance Parameters 80

3.3 Single-Phase Full-Wave Rectifiers 82

3.4 Single-Phase Full-Wave Rectifier with RL Load 85

3.5 Single-Phase Full-Wave Rectifier with a Highly Inductive Load 92

3.6 Multiphase Star Rectifiers 94

3.7 Three-Phase Bridge Rectifiers 98

3.8 Three-Phase Bridge Rectifier with RL Load 102

3.9 Three-Phase Rectifier With A Highly Inductive Load 106

3.10 Comparisons of Diode Rectifiers 108

3.11 Rectifier Circuit Design 108

3.12 Output Voltage with LC Filter 120

3.13 Effects of Source and Load Inductances 124

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Muhammad H. Rashid is employed by the University of West Florida as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Previously, he was employed by the University of Florida as Professor and Director of UF/UWF Joint Program. Rashid received his B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Birmingham in UK. Previously, he worked as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of the Engineering Department at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. He also worked as Visiting Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Connecticut, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University Calumet, and Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia). He has been employed as a design and development engineer with Brush Electrical Machines Ltd. (England, UK), as a research engineer with Lucas Group Research Centre (England, UK), and as a lecturer and head of Control Engineering Department at the Higher Institute of Electronics (in Libya and Malta).
Dr. Rashid is actively involved in teaching, researching, and lecturing in electronics, power electronics, and professional ethics. He has published 17 books listed in the US Library of Congress and more than 160 technical papers. His books are adopted as textbooks all over the world. His book Power Electronics has translations in Spanish, Portuguese, Indonesian, Korean, Italian, Chinese, and Persian, and also the Indian economy edition. His book Microelectronics has translations in Spanish in Mexico and in Spain, Italian, and Chinese.
He has received many invitations from foreign governments and agencies to give keynote lectures and consult, from foreign universities to serve as an external examiner for undergraduate, master’s, and Ph.D. examinations, from funding agencies to review research proposals, and from U.S. and foreign universities to evaluate promotion cases for professorship. Dr. Rashid has worked as a regular employee or consultant in Canada, Korea, United Kingdom, Singapore, Malta, Libya, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Dr. Rashid has traveled to almost all states in USA and to many countries to lecture and present papers (Japan, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Libya, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, Malta, Italy, Greece, United Kingdom, Brazil, and Mexico).
He is Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET, UK) and Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, USA). He was elected as an IEEE Fellow with the citation “Leadership in power electronics education and contributions to the analysis and design methodologies of solid-state power converters.” Dr. Rashid is the recipient of the 1991 Outstanding Engineer Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He received the 2002 IEEE Educational Activity Award (EAB), Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing Education with the following citation “for contributions to the design and delivery of continuing education in power electronics and computer-aided simulation.” He is the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award with the citation: “For his distinguished leadership and dedication to quality undergraduate electrical engineering education, motivating students and publication of outstanding textbooks.”
Dr. Rashid is currently an ABET program evaluator for electrical and computer engineering, and also for (general) engineering program. He is the series editor of Power Electronics and Applications and Nanotechnology and Applications with the CRC Press. He se

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