Thyristor Engineering (Power Electronics)

Thyristor Engineering (Power Electronics) by M. S. Berde

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Book Summary:

The ‘Thyristor’ or Silicon Controlled Rectifier (S.C.R.) was first invented by Bell Laboratories in U.S.A. in the year 1948 and it was first introduced in the market by General Electric Company in the year 1957. However, commercially it started becoming available after 1960. Since this time there has been a rapid growth in the control equipment making use of thyristors. Initially however for a period of 5-6 years the failure rate of the equipments hampered the growth of thyristorised equipment in industry. This however did not cause any break in the building up of know-how and technical literature has been piling up since, at a rate of about 200 reported articles per year on various aspects of this technology. It will not be wrong to say that the present state of thyristor technology has been a result of about ten years effort in all directions including development in semiconductor and printed circuits technology.

Audience of the Book :

This book Useful for Electronics & Electricals Engineering Students.

Table of Content:

1. An Introduction of Thyristor Engineering

2. Semiconductors and Silicon Diodes

3. Thyristors and Their Characteristics

4. Thyristor Turn-on Methods

5. Thyristor Turn-off Methods

6. Thyristor Control Techniques

7. Rectifier Circuits or Line Commutated Converters

8. Converter Circuit Faults and Thyristor Protection Against Overvoltage and Overcurrent

9. Cycloconverters and Frequency Multipliers

10. D.C. to D.C. Converter or Choppers

11. Inverters

12. Electron Devices and Circuit for Thyristor Controllers

13. Driver or Trigger Circuits for Thyristors Converters

14. Heat Sink Calculations and Cooling of Diodes and Thyristors

15. Triacs and Their Applications

16. Static Contactors and Switches

17. D.C. Motor Drives Using Thyristors

18. A.C. Motor Drives Using Thyristor

19. Converter Control Using Microcomputer

20. Series and Parallel Operations of Diodes and Thyristors

21. Design Considerations for Converter Equipment

22. Fourier Analysis of Voltage and Current Waveforms

23. Applications of Thyristors to the Power Systems