Namal College Mianwali

Section Course Outline Report

Department: Electrical Engineering (NCM) Printed Date: 04-Oct-2019

Section Course Detail

Semester FALL 2019

Department Electrical Engineering (NCM)

Section A

Subject Title EE-410 Power Electronics

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M easureable Student Learning Outcomes

CLOs Description PLOs Level

Grading Policy

Class Timings

Section Content

Week Topics
(Lec)

week1 Introduction to Power Electronics:

Characteristics of different power electronics switches
Basics of controlled switches and gate control circuits

week2 Diode Rectifier:

Power diode, single phase and three phase rectifiers with inductive loads and freewheeling diode.
Performance analysis, filter design and effect of inductance on rectifier operation.

week3 Thyristor:
Basics of thyristor, working principle, gate characteristics, firing circuits, snubber circuits, TRIAC,
DIAC and GTOs, thyristor as a switch

week4 Controlled Rectifiers:

Single phase and three phase controlled rectifiers with inductive loads and dual converters

week5 Controlled Rectifiers:

Power factor improvement using PWM in controlled rectifiers, series and parallel connections,
twelve pulse converters.

week6 DC to DC converter (Non isolated):

Introduction, principle, generation of duty cycle, design, simulation and performance analysis of
buck and boost converters. Non ideal trnsformer based model of the buck and boost converter
(Chapter 3 from Ericson)
week7 DC to DC converter (Non isolated):
Introduction, Principle, Generation of duty cycle, Design, simulation and performance analysis of
buck-boost and Cuk converter.

week8 DC to DC converter (Isolated):

Push-pull converter topology, fly back topologies, forward converters, half bridge and full bridge
converters, resonant converter. Design of a switch mode power supply, inductor and transformer

week9 Single phase Inverters:

Introduction, principle of operation, performance parameters, single phase half bridge Inverter,
single phase full bridge inverter, quasi square wave inverter, sinusoidal PWM inverter and Fourier
analysis.

week10 Three phase Inverters:

Three phase inverters with 180 and 120 degree conduction, sinusoidal PWM inverter, regular
sampling, single PWM, multiple PWM, modified sinusoidal PWM, symmetric and asymmetric
modulation, simulation and design of PWM based inverters.

week11 Cascaded H-Bridge Inverter:

Working principle, concept of multi level inverter, detailed discussion on seven and nine level
inverter using two cascaded H-bridge inverters, performance measurement
Selected Harmonic Elimination Technique for single phase inverter

week12 Three phase SVPWM Inverter:

Concept of space vector, switching states, derivation of space vectors duty cycles, switching
pattern in different sectors, space vector PWM modulator, implementation of space vector PWM
using micro-controllers, and performance analysis.

week13 AC Voltage controllers

Principle of ON-OFF control, principle of phase control, single phase bi-directional controller with
resistive and inductive load, basic concept of cyclo converters.
Three phase AC voltage controllers

week14 1. Static Switches:

Different type of switches, application of static switches, three phase motor reversal control, bus
transfer control, on load transformer tap changer
2. Linear Regulator -- Shunt and series configuration

week15 Thermal Design Considerations:

Heat dissipation, calculation of thermal resistance, design of heat sink

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