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Power Electronics And Motor Drives: Advances and Trends

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I bought the book based on the good reviews (too few, although all good, I see now), and that's what I received:
The book is constructed by using half page to show bullet-points in the style of a Powerpoint presentation, using big characters or thick-line diagrams, and below it, a paragraph with some explanations about the subject.
Unfortunately, the whole book is like this (by the way, the quality of graphics is extremely low). So, it becames really hard to read and follow the contents.
Anyway, the contents are very superficial, just generalities: do not expect to be able to design a converter, or be able to choose one, even after the huge effort of reading through it.
Please, realize that non-mathematical treatment means, in this case: non applicable, non rigorous. I should have distrusted the "non-mathematical" feature: engineers, or engineering students are supposed to be able to deal with mathematical treatments...aren't we?
There are for sure better books on Power Electronics (or just books, not a commented powerpoint, like this one).
Don't throw away your money by buying this. I don't know other books of the author, but this one is really disgusting, a full deception, feel cheated on my money...

It is such a pleasure to review the book POWER ELECTRONICS AND MOTOR DRIVES - ADVANCES AND TRENDS by Prof. Bimal Bose of the University of Tennessee. Prof. Bose has authored/edited large number (altogether seven) of books in power electronics and motor drives area which have been very popular, but this book is somewhat unique. It treats all the modern and advanced topics of power electronics (including fuzzy logic and neural networks) in integrated manner. Besides the main subject discussed in Chapters 2-11, Chapter 1 gives introduction and perspective of power electronics, and Chapter 12 discusses some questions and answers. Many example applications on converters and drives make the book very interesting.

There is no such book available in the market. The simple descriptive and non-mathematical presentation style format of the book makes the book easy to understand by professional engineers and graduate students. A CD with the PowerPoint presentation file of all the figures is included at the end, which can be used selectively for any seminar presentation on the subject.

Prof. Joao Onofre Pereira Pinto
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul
Campo Grande - MS
Brazil
January 24, 2008

The latest book by Bimal Bose on `Power Electronics and Motor Drives' is very helpful to all practicing power electronics engineers. The book provides very useful information about the practical aspect of power electronics application. The book covers almost all aspect of power electronics including time tested thyristor converter to the latest control and converter technology in power electronics like multi-level converter, neural/fuzzy control and DSP application. It also gives useful information about application of power electronics in the area of Electric/hybrid vehicle, integration of fuel cell with power electronics, etc. The book also provides various information on motor controls and their application in the vast area of ac/dc drives. The book gives lot of information in its last chapter. The particular chapter is formatted in question-answer mode and provides past, present and future of power electronics technology including its multi disciplinary application with respect to the other emerging fields. The book is presented in unique power point format. The book is a very useful tool guide to people like me, who use power electronics in their regular professional life.

Subrata K Mondal

The newly published book by Prof Bimal Bose on `Power Electronics and Motor Drives' is very interesting and unique, dealing with a number of topics related to power electronics and motor drives. This book is in presentation format that is very helpful for teaching undergraduate and graduate students, and also to all practicing power electronics engineers. The book covers almost all aspects of power electronics including thyristor converters, to the latest control and converter technology in power electronics like multi-level converters, neural/fuzzy control and DSP applications. Many examples of recent industrial applications have been included to make the presentation very interesting. The question and answer chapter is very useful to answer many questions, which makes to clearly understand the concepts and principles of the converters. The book consists of the following chapters:
1. Introduction and perspective
2. Power semiconductor Devices
3. Phase controlled converters and cycloconverters
4. Voltage-Fed Converters and Cycloconverters
5. Current-fed converters
6. Electrical Machines for Variable Speed Drives
7. Induction Motor Drives
8. Synchronous Motor Drives
9. Computer Simulation and Digital Control
10. Fuzzy Logic ad applications
11. Neural Networks and Applications
12. Some Questions and Answers

The information presented in the book provides the latest advances in power converters and adjustable speed drives including analysis of power converter topologies, modulation strategies, multi-level converters, drive system configurations as well as advanced motor control strategies such as fuzzy logic and neural network based systems. Connecting the applications to power electronics technology is well done.

An important topic lacking adequate discussion in the book is on DC-DC converters. Several topologies of this class of converters have been discussed in first part of Chapter 4. However, a separate chapter on DC-DC converters and their control strategies was desirable.

The book is easy to read and the material flows logically. Almost every page of the book features either a detailed figure or a chart, accompanied by clear description of the figure. It would be a good reference book and also can be used as a text book.

Dr. Kaushik Rajashekara