Power Electronics and Electric Drives for Traction Applications

Power Electronics and Electric Drives for Traction Applications offers a practical approach to understanding power electronics applications in transportation systems ranging from railways to electric vehicles to ships. It is an application-oriented book for the design and development of traction systems and it includes a description of the core technology.

The first four introductory chapters describe the common knowledge and background required to understand the preceding chapters. After that, each application-specific chapter highlights the significant manufacturers involved, provides a historical account of the technological evolution experienced, distinguishes the physics and mechanics, and where possible, analyzes a real-life example, providing the necessary models and simulation tools, block diagrams, and simulation-based validations.

Key Features:

• Surveys state-of-the-art power electronics in all aspects of traction applications
• Presents vital design and development knowledge in a simple, clear, and complete manner
• Offers design guidelines for power electronics traction systems in high-speed rail systems, ships, electric/hybrid vehicles, elevators, and more
• Includes application-specific chapters co-authored by a traction industry expert
• Provides learning supplemented by tutorial sections and case studies that use MATLAB and Simulink to create simulations with data from practical systems

This book is a valuable reference for application engineers in the traction industry who are responsible for the design and development of products as well as traction industry researchers, developers, and graduate students on power electronics and motor drives who need a reference to the application examples.