Power Electronic Converters and Systems: Applications (Energy Engineering)

Power electronics is a field in constant evolution. Power grids require further developments, and the overall society electrification requires enhanced power electronics and motor drives. New semiconductor wide bandgap devices and modern implementation hardware software play a key role, power converters for the direct current and alternating current electrical conversion, for changing voltage or frequency have become integrated with layers of communication, control, and information processing.

This expanded 2nd edition of Power Electronic Converters and Systems offers an update in two volumes, with a systematic revision of all chapters plus all-new chapters. An overview of modern power electronic converters and systems is provided, and their applications explored. Devices covered include semiconductor switches, various converters, switching power supplies, and smart power electronic modules. Applications approach unique motors and induction motor drives, renewable energy, distribution and microgrids, automotive and shipboard power systems and wireless power transfer, as well as advanced control.

In volume one, chapters cover semiconductor power devices, multilevel and multi-input converters, modular multilevel cascade and matrix converters, soft-switching, source power, and DC/DC converters, smart power electronics, motor drives, switched reluctance machines, reliability in power electronics and hardware-in-the-loop.

In volume two, chapters cover wind and PV energy principles, charging and battery management, DC-DC switched capacitor converters, batteries, shipboard power systems, advanced control and power filter control, more electric aircraft, fault ride through strategies for grid-connected PV, support functions and grid-forming control.

Both volumes offer key insights and up-to-date information for researchers and practicing engineers working in power electronics, converters and machine drives, electric vehicles, ship propulsion, battery storage, wind and photovoltaics solar energy and power conversion.

Marcelo Godoy Simões is a professor in Flexible and Smart Power Systems at the University of Vaasa, Finland. Prior positions include 11 years at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), 21 years at the Colorado School of Mines (USA), visiting professorships at Georgia Tech, L'École Normale Supérieure de Cachan and Université de Technologie Belfort-Montbéliard in France, Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi (UAE), and Fulbright Scholar at Aalborg University. He developed several AI-based power electronics for renewable energy and smart-grid integration, with several advanced applications, such as wind energy conversion, and early automation-control-based models of fuel cells. His current research interests include smart grid-based inverters for renewable energy, power electronics and power systems, power quality, renewable energy, and artificial intelligence. He is a Fellow of the IEEE with the citation "for applications of artificial intelligence in control of power electronics systems."

Tiago Davi Curi Busarello has been a professor since 2016 at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) - Campus Blumenau. He holds a PhD and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, obtaining the degrees in 2015 and 2013, respectively. He is an electrical engineer (2010) from the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). He worked as a postdoctoral researcher as well as a visiting professor from 2022 to 2023 at the University of Vaasa, Finland. He was a visiting researcher in 2014 at the Colorado School of Mines, United States. He is a senior member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and a member of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. He serves as a reviewer for IEEE journal articles. He is a member of GEPPEL-Group of Power Electronics and Electrical Energy Processing at UFSC Blumenau. His areas of interest encompass digital control for power electronics, digital twins, and smart grids.