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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

B.E Semester: 4
Power Electronics
Subject Code
Subject Name Fundamentals of Power Electronics (Institute Elective-I)

Sr.No Course content


1. Introduction: Power Electronics System(PES) – Overview, Components &
Building Blocks of PES, Power, Energy, Control, Electronics Devices,
Requirements of Signal Processing and Power Processing, Ideal switch
characteristics, Semiconductor materials for Power Switches, Power Switch
classification

2. Power Electronics Components & Characteristics: Basic passive


components resistors, capacitors, inductor, transformer their equivalent
circuit and their behavior at different frequencies. Active components like
DIAC, UJT, PUT, Optocoupler etc. and their characteristics, Basic
application circuits.

3. Power Switching Devices: Construction and Characteristics of Rectifier


Diodes, Fast Recovery Diodes, Ultra Fast Recovery Diodes, PiN Diode,
Diode as uncontrolled switch, Fully Controlled Power Switches like Power
BJT, Power MOSFET, Power FET, IGBT etc.

4. Thyristor: SCR, Operating principle, characteristics, Two transistor Model,


Thyristor Construction (Planner Diffused & Alloy Diffused), Turn ON
methods, Turn OFF Mechanism, Turn OFF methods, Converter Grade and
Inverter Grade Thyristors, Thyristor Commutation, Commutation,
requirements and Classes of Commutations,Thyristor driving circuits,
Thyristor protection circuits.

5. Other Power Devices : Working principle and symbol of Triac, LASCR,


ASCR, SIT, SITH, MCT, MTO, ETO, Power Integrated Circuits etc.

6. Driving and Protection requirements of various power switches: Driving


Circuit, dv/dt , di/dt, over voltage, over current protection etc., Comparison
of various power switching devices based on their ratings, switching speed,
characteristics etc.

7. AC-DC Converters: Classification, 1-phase and 3-phase uncontrolled


Rectifier, Principle of phase controlled rectifier, rectifier with R, R-L and R-L-
E load, rectifier with C,LC filter, effect of different filters and loads on line
current and voltage waveforms, output voltage and current waveforms,
effect of source inductance, Effect of rectifier on 3-phase 4 wire system,
Inrush current at turn on, comparison of 1 and 3 phase rectifiers

8. DC-DC Converters: Classification, principle, output control methods, Types


of chopper, Step up, step down, step up-down chopper, Thyristor based
choppers, voltage and current commutated choppers, Principle of SMPS
9. DC-AC Converters: Inverters, classification, principle, VSI and CSI,
operation of series, parallel, half and full bridge inverters, McMurry
Inverters, 3-phase inverters, voltage control

10. AC-AC Converters: AC voltage controllers, integral cycle control, principle


of phase controlled switching, Concept of THD or HF, DPF, DF, IPF, Ripple
factor, AC Choppers, 1- phase Cyclo-converters

Reference Books:
1. Power Electronics Converters, Applications and design, Wiley, Ned Mohan,
Undeland, Robbins
2. Power Electronics, Circuits Devices and Applications, M.H.Rashid
3. Power Electronics Systems Theory & design, J.P.Agrawal
4. Power Electronics, TMH, M.D.Singh, Khanchandani
5. Power Electronics Devices, Circuits and Industrial Applications, Oxford, V.R.
Moorthi
6. Power Electronics, M. S. Jamil Asgar
7. Power Electronics, Sachin S. Sharma, University Science Press

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