Thyristor Engineering (Power Electronics)

This book serves as text for topics in the application of thyristors and other electronic switches used in Power Electronics. It serves the needs of undergraduate students of all universities and to some extent needs of postgraduate courses as well. It has the most of the material needed for understanding Converters Inverters Choppers and Static Switches and their applications to d.c. and a.c. Motor Drives, Power System, UPS etc. A sufficient number of worked problems and problems for practice are included. The reference to thyristors available in Indian market is also included for the use of the designers. A chapter on microprocessor application is also added with reference to its application to industrial drives.
* An Introduction of Thyristor Engineering * Semiconductors and Silicon Diodes * Thyristors and their Characteristics * Thyristor Turn-on Methods * Thyristor Turn-off Methods * Thyristor control Techniques * Rectifier Circuits or Line Commutated Converters * Converter Circuit Faults and Thyristor Protection against Overvoltages and Overcurrents * Cycloconverters and Frequency Multipliers * D.C. to D.C. Converter or Choppers * Inverters * Electron Devices and Circuits for Thyristor Controllers * Driver or Trigger Circuits for Thyristors Converters * Heat Sink Calculations and Cooling of Diodes and Thyristors * Triacs and their Applications * Static contactors and Switches * D.C. Motor Drives using Thyristors * A.C. Motor Drives using Thyristors * Converter control using Micro-Computer * Series and Parallel operations of Diodes and Thyristors * Design considerations for Converter Equipment * Fourier Analysis of Voltage and Current Waveforms * Applications of Thyristors to Power Systems.