COURSE DATASHEET

Course Name Power Electronics

NBA CODE / Course Code C304 / EE6503
Class III – BE-EEE
Batch 2016
Course Teacher Mr. E.Kannapiran
Designation Assistant Professor
No. of students enrolled 55
Course Coordinator Mr. A.Senthilnathan
NBA Course Code: C304 LTPC
POWER ELECTRONICS
AU Course Code: EE6503 3 00 3

COURSE OBJECTIVIES:
 To get an overview of different types of power semiconductor devices and their
switching characteristics.
 To understand the operation, characteristics and performance parameters of controlled
Rectifiers
 To study the operation, switching techniques and basics topologies of DC-DC switching
regulators.
 To learn the different modulation techniques of pulse width modulated inverters and to
understand harmonic reduction methods.
 To study the operation of AC voltage controller and various configurations.

PRE-REQUISITES:

Transforms and Partial Differential Equations, Electrical Machines I and Electrical Machines II.

CO-REQUISITES:

Nil

COURSE OUTCOMES:
After the successful completion of the course, the students will be able to
Describe the static and dynamic characteristics of various power semiconductor
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devices
Compute the performance parameters of single and three phase controlled
C304.2
converters for R, RL and RLE loads.
C304.3 Discuss various types of chopper circuits

C304.4 Calculate various performance parameters of single and three phase inverters.

C304.5 Compare different Pulse Width Modulation techniques for the given inverter circuit.
Explain the operation of single, three phase AC voltage controller, cyclo converter
C304.6
and matrix converters
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UNIT I POWERSEMI-CONDUCTORDEVICES 9
Study of switching devices, Diode, SCR, TRIAC, GTO, BJT, MOSFET, IGBT-Static and
Dynamic characteristics - Triggering and commutation circuit for SCR- Design of Driver and
snubber circuit.
UNIT II PHASE-CONTROLLED CONVERTERS 9
2-pulse, 3-pulse and 6-pulseconverters– performance parameters –Effect of source inductance––
Gate Circuit Schemes for Phase Control–Dual converters.
UNIT III DC TO DC CONVERTER 9
Step-down and step-up chopper-control strategy–Forced commutated chopper–Voltage
commutated, Current commutated, Load commutated, Switched mode regulators- Buck, boost,
buck- boost converter, Introduction to Resonant Converters.
UNIT IV INVERTERS 9
Single phase and three phase voltage source inverters (both120°modeand180 °mode)–Voltage &
harmonic control--PWM techniques: Sinusoidal PWM, modified sinusoidal PWM - multiple
PWM – Introduction to space vector modulation –Current source inverter.
UNIT V AC TO AC CONVERTERS 9
Single phase and Three phase AC voltage controllers–Control strategy- Power Factor Control –
Multistage sequence control -single phase and three phase cyclo converters –Introduction to
Matrix converters.
TOTAL (L): 45 PERIODS
CONTENT BEYOND SYLLABUS:
1. Multilevel Inverter
2. Z-Source Inverter
GAP IDENTIFIED:
1. Exposure to real time applications of converters are less
2. Simulations of Power electronics circuits are not included.
TEXTBOOKS:
1. M.H.Rashid, ‘Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices and Applications’, Pearson
Education, PHI Third Edition, New Delhi, 2004.
2. P.S.Bimbra “Power Electronics” Khanna Publishers, third Edition, 2003.
3. L. Umanand, “Power Electronics Essentials and Applications”, Wiley, 2010.
REFERENCES:
1. Joseph Vithayathil,’ Power Electronics, Principles and Applications’, McGraw Hill
Series, 6th Reprint, 2013.
2. Ashfaq Ahmed Power Electronics for Technology Pearson Education, Indian reprint,
2003.
3. Philip T. Krein, “Elements of Power Electronics” Oxford University Press, 2004 Edition.
4. Ned Mohan, Tore. M. Undel and, William. P. Robbins,‘ Power Electronics: Converters,
Applications and Design’, John Wiley and sons, third edition,2003.
5. Daniel.W.Hart, “Power Electronics”, Indian Edition, Mc Graw Hill, 3rd Print, 2013.
6. M.D. Singh and K.B. Khanchandani, “Power Electronics,” Mc Graw Hill India, 2013.
E-LEARNING RESOURCES:
1. http://www.nptelvideos.in/2012/11/industrial-drives-power-electronics.html
2. http://nptel.ac.in/courses/108104011/
3. http://www.lntebg.com/lntebg/downloads/C&A/sprs.pdf
4. http://www.nptel.ac.in/courses/IIT-MADRAS/Electrical_Machines_II/pdf/2_1.pdf
5. http://nptel.ac.in/courses/108108077/17