18-8 Designing to Meet the Power Supply Specifications
Chapter 19 Power Conditioners and Uninterruptible Power Supplies
19-1 Introduction
19-2 Power Line Disturbances
19-3 Power Conditioners
19-4 Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs)
Part 5 Other Applications
Chapter 20 Residential and Industrial Applications
20-1 Introduction
20-2 Residential Applications
20-3 Industrial Applications
20-4 Interconnection of Renewable Energy Sources to Utility
20-5 Grid-Connected Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Chapter 21 Optimizing the Utility Interface with Power Electronic Systems
21-1 Introduction
21-2 Generation of Current Harmonics
21-3 Current Harmonics and Power Factor
21-4 Harmonic Standards and Recommended Practices
21-5 Need for Improved Utility Interface
21-6 Improved Single-Phase Utility Interface
21-7 Improved Three-Phase Utility Interface
21-8 Electromagnetic Interference
Part 6 Practical Converter Design Considerations
Chapter 22 Snubber Circuits
22-1 Function and Types of Snubber Circuits
22-2 Diode Snubbers
22-3 Snubber Circuits for Thyristors
22-4 Need for Snubbers with Transistors
22-5 Turn-Off Snubber
22-6 Overvoltage Snubber
22-7 Turn-On Snubber
22-8 Snubbers for Bridge Circuit Configurations
22-9 GTO Snubber Considerations
Chapter 23 Gate and Base Drive Circuits
23-1 Preliminary Design Considerations
23-2 dc-Coupled Drive Circuits
23-3 Electrically Isolated Drive Circuits
23-4 Cascode-Connected Drive Circuits
23-5 Thyristor Drive Circuits
23-6 Power Device Protection in Drive Circuits
23-7 Circuit Layout Considerations
Chapter 24 Component Temperature Control and Heat Sinks
24-1 Control of Semiconductor Device Temperatures
24-2 Heat Transfer by Conduction
24-3 Heat Sinks
24-4 Heat Transfer by Radiation and Convection
Chapter 25 Design of Magnetic Components
25-1 Magnetic Materials and Cores
25-2 Copper Windings
25-3 Thermal Considerations
25-4 Analysis of a Specific Inductor Design
25-5 Inductor Design Procedures
25-6 Analysis of a Specific Transformer Design
25-7 Eddy Currents
25-8 Transformer Leakage Inductance
25-9 Transformer Design Procedure
25-10 Comparison of Transformer and Inductor Sizes
Part 7 Motor Drive Applications
Chapter 26 Introduction to Motor Drives
26-1 Introduction
26-2 Criteria for Selecting Drive Components
Chapter 27 dc Motor Drives
27-1 Introduction
27-2 Equivalent Circuit of dc Motors
27-3 Permanent-Magnet dc Motors
27-4 dc Motors with a Separately Excited Field Winding
27-5 Effect of Armature Current Waveform
27-6 dc Servo Drives
27-7 Adjustable-Speed dc Drives
Chapter 28 Induction Motor Drives
28-1 Introduction
28-2 Basic Principles of Induction Motor Operation
28-3 Induction Motor Characteristics at Rated (Line) Frequency and Rated Voltage
28-4 Speed Control by Varying Stator Frequency and Voltage
28-5 Impact of Nonsinusoidal Excitation on Induction Motors
28-6 Variable-Frequency Converter Classifications
28-7 Variable-Frequency PWM-VSI Drives
28-8 Variable-Frequency Square-Wave VSI Drives
28-9 Variable-Frequency CSI Drives
28-10 Comparison of Variable-Frequency Drives
28-11 Line-Frequency Variable-Voltage Drives
28-12 Reduced Voltage Starting (“Soft Start”) of Induction Motors
28-13 Speed Control by Static Slip Power Recovery
Chapter 29 Synchronous Motor Drives
29-1 Introduction
29-2 Basic Principles of Synchronous Motor Operation
29-3 Synchronous Servomotor Drives with Sinusoidal Waveforms
29-4 Synchronous Servomotor Drives with Trapezoidal Waveforms
29-5 Load-Commutated Inverter Drives
29-6 Cycloconverters
Appendix Computer Simulation of Power Electronic Converters and Systems A
A-1 Introduction
A-2 Challenges in Computer Simulation
A-3 Simulation Process
A-4 Mechanics of Simulation [1]
A-5 Solution Techniques for Time-Domain Analysis
A-6 Widely Used, Circuit-Oriented Simulators
A-7 Equation Solvers
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