interline power-flow controllers.

Chap- System Integration” Modular

ter 19 considers the key components 20) “Distributed Generation and Multilevel
of wind and PV systems for renewable Microgrids” Converters:
energy grid integration, including phase 21) “Wireless Power Transfer.” Analysis,
locked loop synchronization based on The authors are power electronics Control, and
the Park transform. Chapter 20 pres- and drives specialists researching non- Applications
ents distributed generation, microgrid, linear control, power quality, renew- By Sixing Du,
and smart-grid technology, comprising able energy, fuzzy control, and smart Apparao Dekka,
storage and electric vehicle intercon- grids. Vinod Kumar Yadav is a profes- Bin Wu, and
nections. Chapter 21 discusses wireless sor in the Department of Electrical En- Navid Zargari,
power transfer using two, three, and four gineering, Maharana Pratap University Wiley-IEEE Press, 2018, Hardback, 318
coupling coils. of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, pages, Print ISBN: 9781119366300,
Many solved examples and exer- India. He is also the associate editor of Online ISBN: 9781119367291,
cises are also provided, as well as IET-Renewable Power Generation, (IET- DOI: 10.1002/978111936729.
references in each chapter. A table of RPG) and a Fellow of the Institution of

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contents, preface, and index are also Engineers (India). Ranjan Kumar Behe- he book Modular Multilevel Con-
included. Appendix A highlights vari- ra is a professor in the Department of verters Analysis, Control, and Ap-
ous MATLAB-based/Simulink models Electrical Engineering at IIT Patna and plications is authored by an in-
and programs for simulation, wave- head of the department since January dustrial–academic team: the first three
form plotting, and spectrum analysis 2016. Dheeraj Joshi is a professor in the authors, Sixing Du, Apparao Dekka,
of several power electronic converters. Department of Electrical Engineering, and Bin Wu, are from the Department
The sections and chapters are as Delhi Technological University, India. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
follows: Ramesh Bansal is a professor in the De- at Ryerson University in Toronto, and
partment of Electrical and Computer Navid Zargari is a manager and prod-
Section I Power Semiconductor Engineering at the University of Shar- uct architect at MV Drives Research
Devices jah, United Arab Emirates. He is also an and Development at Rockwell Auto-
1) “Overview of Power Electronics” editor for IET-RPG, IEEE Systems Jour- mation, Toronto. Therefore, the text is
2) “Power Semiconductor Devices” nal, Electric Power Components and Sys- systematically organized to provide
3) “Silicon-Controlled Rectifier.” tems, and Technology and Economics of practical knowledge of high-power
Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy. converter topologies, reference frame
Section II Power Electronic Converters Power Electronics, Drives, and Ad- theory, pulsewidth modulation tech-
4) “Phase-Controlled Rectifiers” vanced Applications is an essential ref- niques, modeling of ac drives, classical
5) “Semiconverters” erence for undergraduates studying vector control methods, model predic-
6) “Chopper” power electronic converters. The book tive control methods, modeling and
7) “DC–to–AC Converter: Inverter” is also suited for advanced students control of high-voltage dc systems, ac-
8) “AC Voltage Controllers” willing to develop further control skills tive and reactive power control, power
9) “Cycloconverter” based on the given examples. Finally, it quality problems, harmonics and un-
10) “Switched-Mode Power Supplies” is also a valuable tool for practicing pro- balance compensation, modeling and
11) “Multipulse Converter.” fessionals who want to understand and control of static synchronous compen-
pursue advanced applications of switch- sators and unified power quality com-
Section III Electrical Drives ing power converters, models, and con- pensators—all offered without unnec-
12) “Introduction of Electrical Drives” trollers on their own. essary theoretical ballast. The book
13) “Control of DC Motor Drives” consists of three parts, nine chapters,
14) “Control of Induction Motor Drives” Fernando A. Silva and an appendix, organized as follows:
15) “FPGA-Based Fuzzy-Logic Control Instituto Superior Técnico, INESC-ID,
of DTC for Matrix-Converter-Fed Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Part I General Aspects of
Induction-Motor Drives” Conventional MMC
16) “Control of Synchronous and Spe- References 22) “Review of High‐Power Converters”
cial Motor Drives.” [1] J. F. Silva and S. F. Pinto, “Linear and nonlin- 23) “Fundamentals of Modular Multi-
ear control of switching power converters,”
in Power Electronics Handbook, M. Rashid, Ed.
level Converter”
Section IV Advanced Power Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier, 24) “Classical Control of Modular Mul-
2018, pp. 1141–1220.
Electronics Applications [2] J. F. Silva, “Sliding mode control of voltage
tilevel Converter”
17) “Electric/Hybrid Electric Vehicles” sourced boost-type reversible rectifiers,” 25) “Model Predictive Control of Mod-
in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Industrial Electronics
18) “Power Electronics Applications (ISIE’97), 1997, vol. 2, pp. 329–334. doi: 10.1109/
ular Multilevel Converter.”
in Power Systems” ISIE.1997.648960.
[3] Z. Zhong, Modeling, Control, Estimation, and
19) “Power Electronics Application in Optimization for Microgrids: A Fuzzy-Model- Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MIE.2020.3008022
Renewable Energy (Wind and PV) Based Method. Boca Raton, FL: CRC, 2020. Date of current version: 23 September 2020

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Part II Advanced Modular Multilevel book’s strengths include an explora- also a valuable reference book for
Converters tion of the technical challenges, mod- academic researchers, practicing en-
26) “Passive Cross‐Connected Modu- eling, and control of various modular gineers, and other professionals in-
lar Multilevel Converters” multilevel converters in a wide range terested in the design and control of
27) “Active Cross‐Connected Modular of applications and a presentation of high-power converters.
Multilevel Converters” the latest developments of high-power
28) “Star and Delta‐Channel Modular converters in medium-voltage motor Marian P. Kazmierkowski,
Multilevel Converters.” drive systems. It also provides tables, Warsaw University of Technology,
charts, graphs, case studies, and Poland
Part III Applications of Modular MATLAB simulations that facilitate
Multilevel Converters understanding of design methodolo- References
[1] M. Schweizer, T. Friedli, and J. W. Kolar, “Com-
29) “Modular Multilevel Converter gies. However, in the review in Chapter parative evaluation of advanced three-phase
Based Medium‐Voltage Motor Drives” 1 of the classification of Figure 1.2 and three-level inverter/converter topologies
against two-level systems,” IEEE Trans. Ind.
30) “Role of Modular Multilevel Con- the discussion, the topology of a tran- Electron., vol. 60, no. 12, pp. 5515–5527, 2012.
verters in The Power System.” sistor neutral point clamped converter doi: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2233698.
[2] H. Akagi, “Multilevel converters: Configuration
is omitted (see, for example, [1], [2]). of circuits and systems,” in Power Electronics
Appendix A I recommend Modular Multilevel in Renewable Energy Systems and Smart Grid:
Technology and Applications, B.K. Bose, Ed.
“Matlab Demo Projects.” Converters: Analysis, Control, and Appli- Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2019, ch. 3, pp. 153–218.
Each chapter includes a summary cations as a textbook for graduate- doi: 10.1002/9781119515661.ch3.
and a list of references, and an index level students and teachers of elec-
is added at the end of the book. The trical and power engineering. It is

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