Meet the editor

Marian Găiceanu earned his PhD degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Galati, Romania, in 2002. He is currently with the Department of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Dunarea de Jos University of Galati, as an Academic Professor and PhD supervisor in Electrical Engineering, and he is also the Head of the Integrated Energy Conversion Systems and Advanced Control of Complex Processes

 Research Center, Romania. Dr. Găiceanu was with the Department of Regulation and Control, SIEI S.pA. (2002–2004) and Polytechnic of Turin, Italy (2002–2004 and 2006–2007) conducting several projects in the area of power converter systems for electrical drives, power quality, and PEM and SOFC fuel cell power converters for utilities and marine applications. Dr. Găiceanu has been an IEEE member since 2003 and a co-founder member of the IEEE Power Electronics Romania Chapter. He has been editor in chief of *The Annals of Dunarea de Jos* and *The International Symposium on Electrical and Electronics Engineering* journals. He is currently a reviewer of the *EPE* journal.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

*by Kiran Singh*

**Section 3**

*by Carlos A. Reusser*

*by Mahmoud I. Masoud*

*by Thaiyal Naayagi Ramasamy*

Resonant Power Converters

*by Mohammed Salem and Khalid Yahya*

DC-DC Converter

Five-Phase Line Commutated Rectifiers

*by Marian Găiceanu*

**Preface III**

Introduction **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

Electromechanical Power Conversion **15**

**Chapter 2 17**

**Chapter 3 31**

Static Power Conversion **53**

**Chapter 4 55**

**Chapter 5 75** Power Device Loss Analysis of a High-Voltage High-Power Dual Active Bridge

**Chapter 6 91**

Analysis of Compensated Six-Phase Self-Excited Induction Generator

Using Double Mixed State-Space Variable Dynamic Model

Power Converter Topologies for Multiphase Drive Applications

Introductory Chapter: Electric Power Conversion

## Contents


*by Mohammed Salem and Khalid Yahya* 

