Abstract:
Power electronics technology has gone through dynamic evolution in the last four decades.
Recently, its applications are fast expanding in industrial, commercial, residential,
transportation, utility, aerospace, and military environments primarily due to reduction of
cost, size, and improvement of performance. In Sri Lankaa industries modern power
electronic applications are yet to come and there are few industries, which already have
explored the modern power electronic technologies competitively.
It appears that the role of power electronics on our country in the future will tend to be as
important and versatile as that of information technology today. In this dissertation,
development opportunities in power electronic applications will be discussed after a brief
introduction of drawbacks of the existing applications in the major industries like Food,
Cement, Apparel, Sugar, Alcohol, Personal care and Home care.
Major development opportunities in Industrial power electronic applications are described in
different chapters separately. For each proposed applications technical and financial
feasibility were checked and pay back time was calculated through reliable cost analysis.
Calculations have been done based on practically obtained data to determine the expected
energy savings for each application
Case studies have done for two different industries where power electronic applications are
used tremendously.
