MEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

FRM-001/QSP-004
Dec,01,2001
TENTATIVE TEACHING PLAN

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

Name of Teacher: Prof. Badar-ul-Haque Baloch

Subject: Power Electronics Batch: 06EL (Sec-I & II) Term: 8th Year: Final
Term Starting Date: 20-07-2009 Term Suspension Date: 08-11-2009

No. of
S# Topics Lecture hrs
required
01 Introduction to power Electronics 01
Power semiconductor switches: Power diodes, Power transistors, power MOSFET, 03
02
IGBTs MOS Controlled Thyristers (MCT) and their characteristics
03 Free wheel diodes, Diodes with RC, RL, LC, RLC loads 03
04 Thyristor: Principle of operation, Two-Transistor models of DIAC, TRIAC, and SCR 03
05 Thyristor turn-on and turn-off methods 03
06 Thyristor ratings, protection methods 03
07 Series and parallel operation of Thyristors 02
Static Switches: d.c and a.c circuit breakers, single-phase and three phase a.c 03
08
switches, solid-state relays
09 Three phase reversing switches, design of static switches 03
10 Thyristor Converters: A.C voltage controllers, controlled rectifiers 03
11 Controlled Rectifiers 03
12 Inverters, DC link converters 03
13 DC choppers 03
14 Cycloconverters 03
15 Electric Drives: Thyristor starting and speed control method of DC Motor 03
16 Thyristor based starting and speed control of Induction Motors 03
17 Brushless excitation system 02
18 Harmonics generation, Analysis of harmonics and remedial methods 03
19 Simulation and modeling of various power electronic circuits 02
Total 52

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