25 Best Books on Power Electronics

“Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design” Book Review: This book covers the fundamental concepts of power electronics for its applications and design in the power range of 500 kW or less. Numerous practical power electronic converters have been described which became feasible due to the new generation of power semiconductor devices. An extensive coverage of diode rectifiers, thyristor converters, heat sinks, and magnetic components are provided with the help of a step-by-step design approach. Examples and numerical techniques are explained using PSpice, MATLAB and EMTP.

“Power Electronics: Circuit, Devices, and Applications” Book Review: This book introduces the fundamental characteristics of semiconductor devices and their applications in power conversions in a comprehensive, yet concise manner. Pulse-width modulated inverters, resonant pulse inverters, multilevel inverters, thyristors, controlled rectifiers, DC-DC converters, AC voltage controllers, power switching devices, conversion methods, analysis and techniques and applications are covered in great detail. The book also examines the four relevant applications, i.e. FACTS, static switches, power supplies, dc drives and ac drives, thoroughly. The book also delves into areas of future potential in power electronics. This book is intended for junior or senior undergraduates in electrical and electronic engineering.

“Power Electronic Converters: DC-AC Conversion (Electric Energy Systems and Engineering Series)” Book Review: This book deals with DC/AC conversion, i.e. with inverters. It explains the filtering, wave pulses and different frequencies. An introduction to the basic characteristics of switching power devices and DC-DC converters are provided. Subsequent chapters deal with directly-linked converters, switched-mode power supplies, and forced commutation of thyristors. The book mainly focuses on high-power converters and its steady-state operation. The book is suitable for professional engineers and graduate students.

“Principles of Power Engineering Analysis” Book Review: This book introduces the fundamentals of power systems analysis and presents various tools required to understand the components in an electric power transmission system. First, the text includes the expressions that predict the performance of transmission systems and transformers from first principles. These concepts are then utilized in explaining unbalanced systems and balanced three-phase systems. A detailed discussion on three-phase transformers, symmetrical component analysis of transmission systems, and faulted systems is provided. The design of untransposed transmission lines and the application of three-phase electric power transmission are also analyzed. Clarke component networks and other analysis component systems are also examined. This book is suitable for a one-semester course at the graduate level.

“Electrical Power Systems” Book Review: This book offers a complete coverage of the fundamental aspects of electrical power systems required to ace AMIE, GATE, UPSC Engineering services or any other competitive examinations. An introduction to load characteristics, supply system, conductors, power cables, line insulators and supports, sag and tension is followed by the descriptions of line parameters, short and medium lines, long transmission lines, general network constants, control of voltage and reactive power, power circle diagrams, and load flow analysis. The economic operation of power systems is examined along with symmetrical faults, symmetrical components, and unsymmetrical faults. The book concludes with a discussion on power system stability, travelling waves, overvoltage protection, corona, FACTS, HVDC transmission, system neutral grounding, tariffs, power factor improvement, and voltage stability. This book is designed for B.E/B.Tech /Diploma degree students of Electrical Engineering.

“Power Electronics: Circuit, Devices, and Applications” Book Review: This book introduces the fundamental characteristics of semiconductor devices and their applications in power conversions in a comprehensive, yet concise manner. Power switching devices, conversion methods, analysis and techniques and applications are covered in great detail. The book also examines the four relevant applications, i.e. FACTS, static switches, power supplies, dc drives and ac drives, thoroughly. The book also delves into areas of future potential in power electronics. This book is intended for junior or senior undergraduates in electrical and electronic engineering.

“Power Electronics” Book Review: This book offers a comprehensive introduction to state-of-the-art power semiconductor devices and power electronic converters with special emphasis on the design, analysis and realization of a variety of systems. Each topic is discussed in great detail to expound the fundamental principles, concepts, techniques, methods and circuits necessary to completely understand power electronic systems. The book is designed for undergraduate students of electrical engineering.

“Power Systems Signal Processing for Smart Grids” Book Review: This book provides an inside look as to how Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques can be applied to solve problems in the power system, with special emphasis on smart grids. It introduces the power system and electric signals along with the working principles of DSP commonly found in power system problems. A detailed discussion on DSP with respect to power quality, measurements, protection and control, and wide area monitoring is provided. Power signal estimation and decomposition, pattern recognition techniques, and detection of the power system signal variations are described to bridge the gap between DSP, electrical power and energy engineering systems with the help of practical power system examples. This book is ideal for practicing power systems engineers, utility engineers, researchers, postgraduate electrical engineering students, and staff at utility companies.

“An Introduction to High Voltage Engineering” Book Review: The book provides a detailed treatment on the fundamentals of high voltage engineering qualitatively and quantitatively. The book starts with the introduction of breakdown mechanisms and characteristics of insulating media, followed by generation and measurement of high voltages. Subsequent chapters deal with high voltage testing of equipment, high voltage phenomenon in electric power systems, and electrostatic field estimation. An appendix on partial discharges is also added. Numerous examples and solved problems are also provided. The book is suitable for undergraduate students of electrical engineering studying high voltage engineering.

“Electrical Power Systems: Analysis, Security and Deregulation” Book Review: This book examines the analysis, security and deregulation of power system engineering by incorporating both their theoretical and practical aspects. The first section describes power flow analysis and examines transient stability problems & analysis problems in systems with fault conditions using MATLAB, Power World Simulator and Siemens PSS/E. The following section deals with contingency analysis, state estimation and optimal power flow. The last portion of the book addresses key issues in electricity deregulation and restructuring of power systems including transmission pricing, available transfer capability, and pricing methods in India. Numerous examples and end-of-chapter problems are provided. The book is designed for undergraduate students of electrical engineering and postgraduate students of power engineering and power management studying power system analysis, electricity deregulation, power system security, restructured power systems, and laboratory courses in power system simulation.

“Pipeline Corrosion and Cathodic Protection, Third Edition: A Practical Manual for Corrosion Engineers, technicians, and field personnel” Book Review: The main idea of the book is basics of pipeline corrosion and methods of protection. It can be of use to technicians and engineers. The book covers the basics and fundamentals of the subject. Emphasis is laid on cathodic protection of buried pipe lines. The required mathematical concepts are elucidated wherever necessary.

“Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems: Proceedings of ICPERES 2014 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering)” Book Review: The book contains high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented in the Proceedings of International Conference on Power Electronics and Renewable Energy Systems (ICPERES 2014). The book provides information on the latest developments in the broad area of Power Electronics and Renewable Energy. The book talks about a wide variety of industrial, engineering and scientific applications of the emerging techniques. It gives information from papers from the inventors/originators of new applications and advanced technologies.

“Modern Power Electronics” Book Review: The textbook is meant for undergraduate and graduate students of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. This textbook deals with the characteristics and working principles of modern semiconductor power devices. It covers the design of various types of modern solid state devices such as converters and power control circuits with in-depth analysis. It includes topics such as Characteristics of Semiconductor Power Devices, Switching Regulators, Resonant Converter, Uninterruptible Power Supply, Stepper and Switched Reluctance Motor Drive, Cuk Converter and Integrated Magnetics etc. The textbook comes with a number of solved questions for enhanced understanding.

“Power Electronics: Converters and Regulators” Book Review: This book introduces the fundamental basics of electrical engineering. All the types of converters and regulators are covered in this book. The book provides many exercises, examples and solutions to guide the readers in this field of electronics. This book acts as a guide for students and a reference for professionals.

“Fundamentals of Power Electronics” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduates, graduates, and research scholars of electrical, electronics. And also for students of embedded systems, computer engineering. It covers the fundamental principles, models, and technical requirements needed for designing practical power electronic systems. It includes revisions of material on averaged switch modeling, low-harmonic rectifiers, and the chapter on AC modeling of the discontinuous conduction mode. It also includes soft switching, active-clamp snubbers, zero-voltage transition full-bridge converter, and auxiliary resonant commutated pole. Later it focuses on Computer Simulation of Converters using averaged switch modeling, and Middlebrook’s Extra Element Theorem, including four tutorial examples.

“Control Design Techniques in Power Electronics Devices (Power Systems)” Book Review: The book is useful to researchers in power systems as well as tutors and students in these fields. This book deals specifically with control theories relevant to the design of control units for switched power electronics devices, for the most part represented by DC – DC converters and supplies, by rectifiers of different kinds and by inverters with varying topologies. It covers important topics like sliding mode control and feedback control by means of approximate linearization (linear state feedback, static and dynamic proportional-integral-differential (PID control), output feedback through observer design, Lyapunov-based control and passivity-based control). It also gives an overview on exact feedback linearization, input-output linearization, differential flatness, generalized PID control and, again, passivity-based control. The book contains detailed circuit layouts as well as schematics for better understanding purposes.

“Power Electronics and Motor Drives: Advances and Trends” Book Review: This book is helpful for keeping electrical engineers up to date on the latest advancements in technologies, equipment and applications. It consists of chapters based on entry level and more advanced applications of power electronics and motor drives. It also contains a lot of information on the field of power electronic operations. It talks about converters, machine models, fuzzy logic and neural network control in detail. It contains many practical examples of industrial applications and information from experts with decades of research and industrial experience.

“Nyquist AD Converters, Sensor Interfaces, and Robustness: Advances in Analog Circuit Design” Book Review: This book contains information about Nyquist analog-to-digital converters. It discusses capacitive sensor interfaces, reliability, variability and connectivity. The book is simple and easy to understand. Anyone interested in knowing about analog circuits will find this book valuable.

“Power Electronic Converters Modeling and Control (Advanced Textbooks in Control and Signal Processing)” Book Review: The book is beneficial for engineers and graduate students. It describes various power converter models, including switched and averaged models, small/large-signal models, and time/frequency models. The book also discusses control methods such as linear controllers, nonlinear controllers and resonant controllers. The applications of power converters in switched mode power supplies, electrical machine motion control, active power filters, and distributed power generation is explained in the book. The book contains various exercise questions at the end of each chapter of the book.

“Advanced and Intelligent Control in Power Electronics and Drives (Studies in Computational Intelligence)” Book Review: The book is valuable for engineers, researchers and students of power electronics who are interested in the field of advanced control methods. The book describes power electronic control in renewable energy sources. It explains the predictive control of power converters and drives. It contains information about neurocontrol and nonlinear control of power converters and drives.

“Dynamics and Control of Switched Electronic Systems: Advanced Perspectives for Modeling, Simulation and Control of Power Converters” Book Review: The book is a good source of information for anyone interested in analysis and design techniques for switched power converters. It discusses converter topologies and modulation techniques. The book describes continuous-time, discrete-time and hybrid models. The book explains the modern control strategies for power converters and challenges in numerical simulation. The book provides examples and numerical questions for easily understanding the topic.

“Advanced Electric Drives: Analysis, Control, and Modeling Using MATLAB / Simulink” Book Review: The book can be used by anyone interested in analysis, control and modelling of electric machines. The book contains the applications of electric drives in factory automation, clean transportation and renewable energy resource management. It gives a quantitative approach to dq-axis transformation to a-b-c phase quantities.

“Power Electronics: Advanced Topics and Designs” Book Review: The book is designed for engineers and power electronic specialists. It gives the large-signal analysis of switched-mode converters. The book describes the modelling and analysis of complex new magnetic structures. The book contains Cuk converter practical designs, coupled inductor and integrated mechanics method. It explains the DC to AC inversion in power electronics.

“Advanced Power MOSFET Concepts” Book Review: The book is useful for researchers and engineers working in the power device industry. The book gives inference on voltage-regulator-modules, used to deliver power to microprocessors and graphics chips in laptops and servers. It explains the applications of power MOSFET in lower voltage circuits. The book also explains the role of silicon carbide in the design and structure of power rectifiers.

“Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices and Applications” Book Review: The book is beneficial for undergraduate students of electrical and electronic engineering. The book discusses the power switching devices. It gives information about the conversion methods, analysis and technique. It gives the application of semiconductor devices in the field of flexible ac transmissions (FACTs), static switches, power supplies, dc drives and ac drives. The book also contains characteristics of semiconductor devices.