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Grid Converters and Power Electronics: Book News
Grid Converters and Power Electronics: Book News
by Marian P. Kazmierkowski
and Fernando A. Silva
Grid Converters for Photovol- 4) grid synchronization in single- In addition, the presented chap-
taic and Wind Power Systems phase power converters ters on grid requirements for PV
By Remus Teodor- 5) islanding detection (Chapter 3) and WT systems are
escu, Marco Liserre, 6) grid converter structures for very important, and overall, the
and Pedro Rodri- wind turbine (WT) systems book perfectly fills the gap on the
guez, John Wiley- 7) grid requirements for WT market.
IEEE, Chichester, systems Grid Converters for Photovoltaic
U.K., 2011, Hard 8) grid synchronization in three- and Wind Power Systems is an attrac-
cover, 398 pages, phase power converters tive and unique book geared for
ISBN: 978-0-470- 9) grid converter graduate students
05751-3. control for WTS of electrical engi-
10) control of grid THE BOOK’S CONCEPT neering faculties
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his new book, coauthored by converters un- and for research
ORIGINATED DURING
Remus Teodorescu from Aal- der grid faults and development
borg University, Denmark, 11) grid filter design
BIANNUAL engineers who are
Marco Liserre from the Politecnica di 12) grid current INDUSTRIAL/PH.D. interested in the
Bari, Italy, and Pedro Rodriguez from control. COURSES ORGANIZED design of modern
the Universitat Politecnica di Catalu- In addition, three IN AALBORG renewable energy
nya (UPC–BarcelonaTech), Spain, appendices 1) Space UNIVERSITY. systems. Instruc-
presents problems related to power Vector Transforma- tors willing to adopt
electronic grid interface for wind- tions of Three-Phase this course can free-
and photovoltaic (PV)-generated Systems, 2) Instantaneous Power The- ly download the slides for each chap-
electrical energy. The book’s concept ories, and 3) Resonant Controller and ter from www.wiley.com.
originated during biannual indus- Index are included.
trial/Ph.D. courses organized in Aal- This book is easy to read, and Power Electronics
borg University, Institute of Energy each chapter ends with a summary Handbook, Third Edition
Technology. These courses started and well-selected list of references. Editor-in-Chief
in 2005 and lasted until the end of Several topics are discussed and Muhammad H.
2010 and were attended by more than presented in a very original way as a Rashid, Butterworth-
250 Ph.D. students and industrial result of wide research performed by Hinemann Publishing
participants. the authors. The topics include the (imprint of Elsevier),
The book consists of 12 chapters, following: 2011, hard cover,
covering the following topics: n passive and active islanding de- 1,407 pages, ISBN:
1) introduction (giving an overview tection methods for PV systems 978-0-12-382036-5.
of wind and PV power develop- n synchronization methods based
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ment as well as the role of grid- on second-order generalized he third edition of the Power
connected converters in power integrators Electronics Handbook is a vast
systems) n synchronization techniques for improvement over the two
2) PV inverter structures robust operation under distorted previous editions of this title, since
3) grid requirements for PV grid conditions n Five new chapters were added:
n grid filter design and active damp- ‘‘Solid-State Pulsed Power Elec-
ing techniques tronics,’’ ‘‘Novel Artificial-Intelli-
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MIE.2011.941116 n active and reactive power control gence-Based Soft Computing
Date of publication: 17 June 2011 under grid fault conditions. Applications in Motor Drives,’’