Thyristor Engineering (Power Electronics)----khanna

An Introduction of Thyristor Engineering ♦ Semiconductors and Silicon Diodes ♦ Thyristors and their Characteristics ♦ Thyristor Turn-on Methods ♦Thyristor Turn-off Methods ♦ Thyristor control Techniques ♦ Rectifier Circuits or Line Commutated Converters ♦ Converter Circuit Faults and Thyristor Protection against Overvoltages and Overcurrents ♦ Cycloconverters and Frequency Multipliers ♦ D.C. to D.C. Converter or Choppers ♦ Inverters ♦ Electron Devices and Circuits for Thyristor Controllers ♦ Driver or Trigger Circuits for Thyristors Converters ♦ Heat Sink Calculations and Cooling of Diodes and Thyristors ♦ Triacs and their Applications ♦ Static contactors and Switches ♦ D.C. Motor Drives using Thyristors ♦ A.C. Motor Drives using Thyristors ♦ Converter control using Micro-Computer ♦ Series and Parallel operations of Diodes and Thyristors ♦ Design considerations for Converter Equipment ♦ Fourier Analysis of Voltage and Current Waveforms ♦ Applications of Thyristors to Power Systems.