Application Areas of Power Electronics
Q. What the various power electronic are applications? Explain in brief any two of them.
Some of the important applications of power electronics are :
- Heat control (induction heating).
- Power supplies (for aircrafts), battery chargers.
- Vehicle propulsion systems.
- Conveyors, cranes and hoist control.
- Electric vehicles.
- Locomotives, mass transit.
- Air conditioning, refrigerators.
- Servo systems.
- Motor control (DC and AC motors).
- High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) system.
- Light dimmers, flashers.
- Washing machines, dryers, blowers.
- Furnaces, grinders.
- Pump and compressor control.
- VAR compensation.
- VLF transmitters.
- Machine tools