Publisher's Synopsis
A comprehensive treatment of the subject of power electronics is provided in this book. It deals with the principles of operation of various thyristorised power controllers systematically, and explains the important basic concepts for a beginner. For advanced readers and practising engineers it covers many topics such as static reactive power compensation, power factor control, current source inverter, time-sharing inverter, multiphase chopper and harmonic control in PWM inverters.;Problems are given at the end of the book to test understanding of the basic principles.