EE 471: Power Electronics

Seventh

Lecture
Schedule

See Timetable

Semester

Credit
Hours

Three + One

Pre-requisite

Instructor

Syed Abdul Rahman Kashif

Contact

Office

Power
Systems
Lab,
Department of Electrical Office Hours
Engineering

Teaching
Assistant

None

Lab
Instructor

Syed Abdul Rahman Kashif

Office

N/A

Office Hours

Same as above

Course
Description

This course will cover the design and analysis of power electronic converters such as
uncontrolled rectifiers, semi-controlled rectifiers, fully controlled rectifiers, inverters,
buck regulator, boost regulator, buck boost regulator, Cuk regulator (switch mode
power supplies), AC to AC controllers, cyclo-converters and PWM rectifiers.
Characteristics of power switches such as thyristor, power BJTs and MOSFETs will
be discussed in detail.

Expected
Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will:

Understand the power electronics, power switches and their control
Understand the basic design principles of uncontrolled, semi-controlled and fully
controlled rectifiers and their analysis under different load conditions.
Be able to design Buck, Boost, Buck Boost and Cuk Regulators.(switch mode power
supplies)
Become familiar with analysis and design of power inverters with different gating
techniques including advance PWM techniques as well.
Understand the operation of AC to AC voltage controllers for single phase and three phase
applications

Textbooks

Grading
Policy

Analog Electronics
abdulrahman@uet.edu.pk
Wednesday:
(10:00 am 12:00 noon)
Tuesday:
(10:00 am 12:00 noon)

REQUIRED:
Power Electronics Circuits, Devices, and Applications by Muhammad H. Rashid, 4rth
Edition, Prentice Hall, 2015
Power Electronics by K.R. Varmah and Chikku Abraham, Elsevier, 2014

Quizzes:
Mid Term
Final:

30%
30%
40%

Course Contents Power Electronics

Lecture Plan
Lectures
(No. Of
Weeks)

Topics

Readings

1*

Introduction to Power Electronics.

Characteristics of different power electronics switches. Basic
thyristor and gate control circuits.

Chap. 1 & 7

Diode Rectifier
1*

Single phase and three phase rectifiers with inductive loads

and freewheeling diode. Performance analysis, filter design
and effect of inductance on rectifier operation.

Chapter 3

Controlled Rectifiers
2*

Single phase and three phase controlled rectifiers with

inductive loads, dual converters, and power factor
improvement using PWM, series and parallel connections,
twelve pulse converters.

Chapter 10

Quiz 1
1*

Static Switches and Regulator

Single and three phase AC switches, DC switches, solid state
relays, microelectronic relays and design of static switches,
series and parallel regulators, design of regulator using 7805,
7812 and LM317

(Chapter 12)
And
Bogart

DC to DC converter (Non isolated)

3*

Introduction, Principle, Generation of duty cycle, Design,

simulation and performance analysis of buck, boost, buck
boost and cuk converters

Chapter 5

Mid Term
DC to DC converter (Isolated)
1*

1.5*

2.5*

Push-pull converter topology, fly back topologies, forward

(Chap. 5 & 14 )
converters, half bridge and full bridge converters, Design of a
switch mode power supply.
Power
Single phase Inverter.
Electronics
Introduction, principle of operation, performance parameters,
Circuits,
and single phase bridge Inverters, quasi square wave inverter,
Devices
and
sinusoidal PWM inverter and Fourier analysis. Cascaded
Applications
Inverters.
(Chapter 6)
Power
Three phase Inverters
Electronics
Three phase inverters with 180 and 120 degree conduction,
Circuits,
sinusoidal PWM inverter, regular sampling, single PWM,
Devices and
multiple PWM, modified sinusoidal PWM, symmetric and
Applications
asymmetric modulation, simulation and design of PWM based
(Chap. 6 )
inverters, Introduction to space vectors PWM.

Quiz 2 (At scheduled time)

2

Course Contents Power Electronics

AC Voltage controllers
1*

Principle of ON-OFF control, principle of phase control, single

phase bi-directional controller with resistive and inductive load
and three phase full wave controller.

(Chapter 11)

Cyclo converters
1*

Single and three phase cyclo-converters with resistive and

inductive loads, PWM control and different topologies of
circuit.

Chapter 11

Thermal Design Considerations

1*

Heat dissipation, calculation of thermal resistance, design of

heat sink

Chapter 18

Final

Course Contents Power Electronics

Lab Experiment Schedule

Exp. No.

Description
Introduction to Softwares for power electronics circuits

Single Phase Rectifier with inductive load (half bridge and full bridge)

Half Wave controlled Rectifier using R-and RC Triggering

Full Wave Rectifier using Resistive and R-C Triggering

Optically isolated Gate driver for N-channel MOSFET

Optically isolated Gate driver for P-channel MOSFET

Low Voltage Half Bridge Inverter using MOSFETs

PWM generation for Inverter circuit using TLP494: Natural Sampling Technique
Buck Converter

Boost Converter

10

Buck Boost Converter

11a

Push-pull converter

12

Project: Single Phase Inverter (180 degree, 120 degree, SPWM)

13-15

Project: Three Phase Inverter (180 degree, 120 degree, SPWM)

16

Linear Regulators and use of 78xx series

Lab Grading Policy

1.
2.
3.
4.

35% : Lab Experiment performance

20%: Lab design assignments
15%: Lab Quizzes/Lab Evaluation/Viva
30%: Lab Project (Design and simulation of power electronic converters)