Power electronic converter design handbook

Abstract

Nowadays, power electronic converters play an essential role in the majority of consumer electronic devices and are widely used in industrial applications. Since most of these applications are supplied through the AC grid, the use of rectifiers and DC-DC conveters are mandatory to adapt the grid voltage to the application requirements. In this book, most used AC-DC rectifier topologies and DC-DC converter topologies are thoroughly discussed. Basics of each converter, equations for the power losses evaluation and passive elements design are described. Moreover, the medium frequency transformer required by several of the studied DC-DC converters is analysed in depth. Therefore, this book pretends to be a handbook with a wide scope, which could be used for academic purposes or even by engineers.