Power Electronics Handbook - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 012811407X ISBN 13: 9780128114070

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2017

Synopsis

Power Electronics Handbook, Fourth Edition, brings together over 100 years of combined experience in the specialist areas of power engineering to offer a fully revised and updated expert guide to total power solutions. Designed to provide the best technical and most commercially viable solutions available, this handbook undertakes any or all aspects of a project requiring specialist design, installation, commissioning and maintenance services.

Comprising a complete revision throughout and enhanced chapters on semiconductor diodes and transistors and thyristors, this volume includes renewable resource content useful for the new generation of engineering professionals. This market leading reference has new chapters covering electric traction theory and motors and wide band gap (WBG) materials and devices. With this book in hand, engineers will be able to execute design, analysis and evaluation of assigned projects using sound engineering principles and adhering to the business policies and product/program requirements.

• Includes a list of leading international academic and professional contributors
• Offers practical concepts and developments for laboratory test plans
• Includes new technical chapters on electric vehicle charging and traction theory and motors
• Includes renewable resource content useful for the new generation of engineering professionals

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 012811407X
• ISBN 13: 9780128114070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 1522
• Editor: Rashid Muhammad H.