Power Electronic Converters and Systems: Frontiers and Applications [Book News]

Future power electronics will be dependent on recent silicon carbide power semiconductor devices like SiC metal oxide field effect transistor (MOSFET), SiC insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), and SiC junction field effect transistor (JFET), capable of up to 15 kV hold-off voltages. Compared to silicon (Si), SiC-based power-switching devices present much lower leakage currents, higher blocking voltages, higher operating temperatures, lower on-state voltage drops, higher switching frequency, and higher thermal conductivity. These advanced semiconductor devices integrated within smart power electronic modules can be used to build advanced power converters such as multi-input, multiport converters; modular multilevel cascaded converters (MMCCs); and matrix, Z-source, and Y-source converters. Up-to-date electronic power conversion is priceless for applications like permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drives, induction motor (IM) drives, renewable energy systems (wind, photovoltaic), energy storage, fuel cells, and electrical vehicles (EV). Power electronic conversion is also the core of modern shipboard power systems, more electric aircrafts, flexible ac power transmission systems, distributed generation (DG) and microgrids, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), and wireless power transfer (WPT). Assuming the reader is already familiar with the fundamentals of power semiconductors1], electronic power converters, and their control, this book explores and suggests new trends and frontiers in the interdisciplinary field of power electronics systems (PES). In includes contributions from an international panel of 44 PES experts covering subjects such as SiC devices, multilevel and matrix converters (MC), smart power electronic modules, zero voltage switching (ZVS) and zero current switching (ZCS), switching power supplies, EVs, sliding mode and intelligent direct torque control (DTC) of IM drives, sliding mode observers, and model-based predictive control (MPC) of PMSM drives and wind turbines (WTs). The book is also matchless in performing detailed study of contactless power (WPT) and in sequence-based control (SBC) together with the implementation of high-frequency solid-state power transformer (SST) using three-level neutral point clamped multilevel converters built with 15 kV SiC IGBTs. The book is divided in two parts and 20 chapters. It includes preface, table of contents, index, and references at the end of each chapter.