BITS, PILANI - KK BIRLA GOA CAMPUS INSTRUCTION DIVISION SECOND SEMESTER 2013-2014 Course Handout Part II

Dated: 16/01/2014 In addition to part I (general handout for all courses appended to the timetable), this portion gives further specific details regarding the course. Course no. Course title Instructor in charge Team of Instructors : : : : EEE F342 / INSTR F342 Power Electronics Sheron Figarado Sreeraj E.S, Femi. R, Athokpam Bharatbushan Singh, Himabindu T. Scope and objective: An understanding of state of the art in power electronic devices and circuits: their operation, applications, performance and protection. Experiments on control and steady state

performance analysis of converters.

Text book: N. Mohan, T. M. Undeland, and W. P. Robbins, Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design, John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2012, third edition. Reference books: 1. L.Umanand, Power Electronics: Essentials & Applications, Wiley India,2009, First edition. 2. Robert.W. Erickson and Dragan Maksimovic, Fundamentals Of Power Electronics, Springer, 2001, Second Edition.

Course plan:
Lecture 1-4 5 6 6 Switch realization 8-9 10-11 12-13 14 DC to DC converters Learning objective Nature of power electronic circuits. Coverage Circuit components, the power electronic switches, switching losses, harmonics, and power factor. BJT: rating and selection. Safe operating area. Power MOSFET: rating and selection. Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor: rating and selection. Thyristor family: SCR, GTO, MCT-rating and selection Realization of switches using semiconductor devices. Operation and design issues of buck, boost, and buck-boost converters. Cuk converter. Covered from 3.1-3.2(T1)+Class notes 1.5-1.6(R1) 1.9(R1) 1.10(R1) 1.11(R1) 4(R2) 7.1-5(T1), 2(R2) 7.6(T1)

15-17 18-19 20 21 22 23 24 25-27 28-29 30-31 32 33 34-35 36 37-38 39-40 41 42 Driving circuits and protection circuits for power electronic switches. AC to AC controllers. DC to AC converters. Application of DC-DC and AC-DC converters AC to DC converters.

Isolated converters. Operation and design issues of the phase controlled converter: uncontrolled and controlled configurations. The nature of harmonic corruption and power factor problems. Commutation overlaps and their effects. Inversion in phase controlled converters. Phase control strategies. Control model of the converter DC- motor model, Speed control loop for separately exited DC motor drive The switch mode voltage source inverter (VSI): design and operational issues. Square wave and quasi-square wave inverter; PWM control strategies. Harmonic corruption and power factor problems. Precautionary measures for inverter operation. Current controlled VSIs; space vector modulation techniques; applications. The current source inverter (CSI): operational issues. Base drivers for BJTs and Darlingtons; gating circuits for thyristors; driving circuits for insulated gate devices. Snubber circuits for different devices. The AC power controller: modes of operation, power factor and harmonic problems, applications. The cycloconverter: operation and disadvantages.

10.4(T1) 5.1-6.5(T1) 5.9, 6.3, 6.4(T1) 6.3, 6.4 (T1) 6.3, 6.4 (T1) 6.2 (T1) Class notes, (R2) 13(T1),Class notes 8.1-2 (T1) 8.3-5 (T1) 8.3-4 (T1) 8.6 (T1) 8.6 (T1) 14.9 (T1)+class notes 28.1-6(T1) 27.1-9(T1) 14.12 (T1) 15.6 (T1)

Evaluation scheme:
Evaluation component Test I Test II Laboratory Comprehensive Examination Duration 60 min 60 min ----3 hours Weightage (Marks) 15% 15% 25% 45% Date 04.03.14, Tuesday, (45 PM) 07.04.14, Monday, (45PM) To be announced 05.05.14 (FN) Evaluation type CB OB* OB CB+

* Only handwritten notes are allowed. + Only two A4 sheets are allowed.

Laboratory Component

List of experiments 1. Study of steady state operation of Buck converter. 2. Study of steady state operation of Boost converter. 3. Study of steady state operation of a Buck-Boost converter. 4. Study of steady state operation of a Foraward converter. 5. Study of steady state operation of a single-phase uncontrolled bridge rectifier. 6. Study of steady state operation of a single-phase semicontrolled bridge rectifier. 7. Study of steady state operation of a single-phase controlled bridge rectifier. 8. Study of steady state operation of a three-phase semicontrolled rectifier. 9. Study of steady state operation of a three-phase controlled rectifier. 10. Study of steady state operation of a single-phase Hbridge inverter.

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To be announced in class. Make Up for any evaluation component will be given only in genuine cases. In all cases, prior intimation must be given.

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