DocumentCode
2347805
Title
Power electronics today
Author
Thollot, Pierre
Author_Institution
Sundstrand Corp., Rockford, IL, USA
fYear
1990
fDate
1990
Firstpage
184
Lastpage
187
Abstract
More electric power is being used today than ever before. Billions of kilo-watts of electric power are being re-processed every day in order to provide the kind of power needed by the sophisticated loads which our advanced technology is producing. Power electronics is the engineering discipline which converts electrical power from one form to another
Keywords
power electronics; power conversion; power electronics; sophisticated loads; Aerospace industry; Earth; Energy consumption; Explosives; Low voltage; Power electronics; Power engineering and energy; Telecommunication switching; Thyristors; Transportation;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Colloquium in South America, 1990., Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE
Conference_Location
Argentina, Brazil, Chile
Print_ISBN
0-87942-610-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152827
Filename
152827
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