Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design [Hardcover]

Ned Mohan (Author), Tore M. Undeland (Author), William P. Robbins (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0471226939 | ISBN-13: 978-0471226932 | Publication Date: October 10, 2002 | Edition: 3

Offering step-by-step, in-depth coverage, the new Third Edition of Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design provides a cohesive presentation of power electronics fundamentals for applications and design in the power range of 500 kW or less. The text describes a variety of practical and emerging power electronic converters made feasible by the new generation of power semiconductor devices. The new edition is now enhanced with a new CD-ROM, complete with PSpice-based examples, a new magnetics design program, and PowerPoint slides.

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Cohesive presentation of power electronics fundamentals for applications and design in the power range of 500 kW or less. Describes a variety of practical and emerging power electronic converters made feasible by the new generation of power semiconductor devices. This revised edition includes an expanded discussion of diode rectifiers and thyristor converters as well as new chapters on heat sinks, magnetic components which present a step-by-step design approach and a computer simulation of power electronics which introduces numerical techniques and commonly used simulation packages such as PSpice, MATLAB and EMTP. Contains a significantly expanded set of end-of-chapter problems. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 824 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (October 10, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471226939
• ISBN-13: 978-0471226932
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1.3 x 10 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good overview ... a bit thin on some subjects, August 22, 1998

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marctt (Harvard, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design, 2nd Edition (Hardcover)

Good power electronics textbook. I use it for my power electronics course at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It covers a lot of material well, including switching power converters, thermal and magnetics design. It's a bit thin in some important subjects, such as current mode control.

Marc T. Thompson, Ph.D.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good survey, but not exactly what I was looking for, April 17, 2009

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Craig Garvin "Smart Grid Transitions" (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design (Hardcover)

This is a great survey of power electronics for someone with a modest electrical engineering background. It presents terminology, hardware, circuits and analysis in an approachable and well organized way. After reading it, someone with little prior experience can have a clear sense of what the field is about, what devices are available, and what technology is appropriate for specific power and voltage levels.

That said, as another reviewer pointed out, the book is a little light on math and detailed circuit topology. Erickson and Maksimovic was a much better fit for my needs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Had What I needed., August 15, 2007

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Julian Lynn Stockley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design (Hardcover)

Although a little light on full converter schematics, this textbook contained excellent descriptions of converter building blocks and semiconductor device physics. It is excellent that it came with a simulator program too.