Power Electronics Handbook - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0323992161 ISBN 13: 9780323992169

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2024

Synopsis

Power Electronics Handbook, Fifth Edition delivers an expert guide to power electronics and their applications. The book examines the foundations of power electronics, power semiconductor devices, and power converters, before reviewing a constellation of modern applications. Comprehensively updated throughout, this new edition features new sections addressing current practices for renewable energy storage, transmission, integration, and operation, as well as smart-grid security, intelligent energy, artificial intelligence, and machine learning applications applied to power electronics, and autonomous and electric vehicles. This handbook is aimed at practitioners and researchers undertaking projects requiring specialist design, analysis, installation, commissioning, and maintenance services.

• Provides a fully comprehensive work addressing each aspect of power electronics in painstaking depth
• Delivers a methodical technical presentation in over 1500 pages
• Includes 50+ contributions prepared by leading experts
• Offers practical support and guidance with detailed examples and applications for lab and field experimentation
• Includes new technical sections on smart-grid security and intelligent energy, artificial intelligence, and machine learning applications applied to power electronics and autonomous and electric vehicles
• Features new chapter level templates and a narrative progression to facilitate understanding

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.

From the Back Cover

Power Electronics Handbook, Fifth Edition is an expert guide to power electronics and its applications. It systematically interrogates the foundations of power electronics, power semiconductor devices, and power converters, before reviewing a constellation of modern applications. Comprehensively updated throughout, the new edition features several wholly new sections which address current practice for renewable energy storage, transmission, integration and operation, smart-grid security and intelligent energy; artificial intelligence and machine learning applications applied to power electronics; and autonomous and electric vehicles.

The work is particularly aimed at practitioners and researchers undertaking any aspects of a project requiring specialist design, analysis, installation, commissioning and maintenance services. 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 business policies and product/program requirements. The work also serves to stimulate a wide range of students and engineering professionals as they enter the emerging fields of power electronics and power processing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323992161
• ISBN 13: 9780323992169
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 1466
• Editor: Rashid Muhammad H.