Title :
Power electronics today
Author_Institution :
Sundstrand Corp., Rockford, IL, USA
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;
Conference_Titel :
Colloquium in South America, 1990., Proceedings of the 1990 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Argentina, Brazil, Chile
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-610-1
DOI :
10.1109/COLLOQ.1990.152827
