AMRITA VISHWA VIDYAPEETHAM

COURSE PLAN
Academic year: 2017-18 Semester : Sixth

Department: EEE Programme: B.Tech. EEE

Course Code: 15EEE313 Course Title: POWER ELECTRONICS

Lectur Topics Key-words Objectives Remarks

e No(s)
1-10  Introduction & Applications of power electronics 1.1 to 1.4

 Desirable Characteristics in a switch 2.4 FULL

 Controllable switch waveforms and power loss in 2.4 FULL

clamped inductive switching circuit
(Also refer Joseph Vidyathil
 Temperature rise and use of heat-sinks
For direction property of switches)
POWER SEMICONDUCTOR SWITCHES

 Structure, operation, steady state and switching 29-3

characteristics, turning on and off, gate drive, rating
and protection of the following devices
Understanding of the
o Diode generic/basic
o Thyristors characteristics of
o Power MOSFETs, power semiconductor
2.6, 2.8, 2.3, 2.2
o IGBTs switches

 Analysis of non-sinusoidal waveforms in steady state

& problems on non-sinusoidal waveform analysis

 Simulation & analysis of non-sinusoidal waveforms

with Pspice and MATLAB/Simulink FFT tools (Cand
be for assignments & Tutorials)

3.2.4
11-22

 Thyristor circuits and their control 6.2

o Basic thyristor circuits 6.2.1

o Thyristor gate triggering 6.2.2

o Practical thyristor converters 6.2.3

o Thyristor Gate triggering circuit

(Excluding expressions for rms voltages)

 Single- phase full converter with constant current, 10.3

Phase Controlled Converters

mean output voltage; conversion and inversion mode

M.H. Rashid
of operation.
6.3.4 Ned Mohan for inversion
 Current THD & power factor at input.
mode and extinction angle
o Turn off time and extinction time interval in Understanding of
inversion mode Thyristor based
converter circuits both
single and three phase.
 Single- phase full convert with RLE load, Determining
continuous & discontinuous current modes and 10.3.1 M.H. Rashid
waveforms.

 Effect of source inductance on mean output voltage of

a bridge converter.

 Single-phase semi converter with constant current

load

 Input Power factor and current THD.

(Simulation of converter circuits can be given as

assignments and tutorials or in quizzes)
 PERIODICAL TEST -I

 Single- phase dual converter with circulating and non 10.4 M.H. Rashid
circulating current modes.

6.4 NED MOHAN et al, Power

 Three-phase full (bridge) converter with constant Electronics, 3rd edition (Exclude
current. Converter and Inverter mode of operation. 6.4.5)
Expression required only for mean output voltage.
23-29 3.1

 Single-phase full-wave ac switching controller with R & RL 3.2.2

load.
3.2.4
 Application of Single-phase full-wave ac controller with L
load – Thyristor controlled reactor/Inductor (TCI/TCR) 3.2.5 -3.2.6 Joseph Vidyathil
 Three phase Application for Switching Control 3.4 Joseph Vidyathil

 Chopper Definitions – applications 4.1- 4.2 Joseph Vidyathil

 Step down choppers with resistance load – Constant 4.2 Joseph Vidyathil
frequency – Variable frequency operations –Generation
of gating signals

 Analysis of Step down converter with R &RLE load - Understanding of ac to

Effect of frequency on CCM-DCM ac as well as dc-dc
converters their
 Input filters for dc-dc converters design and the
applications

(Simulation of step down converter in Pspice – For

assignment)

 Principle of step up chopper & Step up chopper analysis

4.3 Joseph Vidyathil
with R &RLE load - Effect of frequency on CCM-DCM
4.3-4.4 Joseph Vidyathil
AC & DC CHOPPERS

(Simulation of step up converter in Pspice – For

assignment)

 Two quadrant Chopper 4.4 Joseph Vidyathil

 High power factor front end converter
Umanand
PERIODICAL TEST II
30-45 o Definitions – Applications – Single phase half and full 8.1
bridge inverters (square wave operation)
o Performance parameters and problems
8.2
INVERTERS AND THEIR PWM SCHEMES o Sine PWM scheme: Single phase full bridge with bipolar
and unipolar voltage switching, performance
parameters - Frequency spectrum, Generalized 8.3
harmonics, Over Modulation , AC and DC side currents
Understanding the
o Single pulse width modulation –(or Output Control by
operation of basic
Voltage Cancellation)
single phase and three
o Sinusoidal pulse width modulation for three phase phase square wave
inverters, inverter and their
control
o Expressions for phase to neutral voltages
Understanding the
o Current regulated modulation 8.4
PWM concepts of
o Rectifier mode of operation of inverters single and three phase
inverters
o AC side filters
o Introduction to Space vector pulse width modulation 8-6-3
Multilevel inverters
o Multilevel inverter – Diode clamped and Cascaded 8.7 Ned Mohan
o UPS Umanand
Muhammad Rashid (9.1,
(Simulation of PWM schemes for single and three phase 9.2,9.4,9.6)
inverter Multi-level inverters, current regulated PWM, 11.4 Ned Mohan
Rectifier Mode of operation )
 End Semester Examination

Total No. of Hours = 45

Evaluation Pattern: Periodical Test 1 = 15

Periodical Test 2 = 15
Continuous Assessment = 20
(Quizzes - 5, Simulation Tutorials – 5)
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Internal - 50
End Semester - 50
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Total - 100

OBE – CO & PO mapping Details

PO1: Engineering Knowledge

PO2: Problem Analysis
PO3: Design/Development of Solutions
PO4: Conduct Investigations of complex problems
PO5: Modern tools usage
PO6: Engineer and Society
PO7: Environment and Sustainability
PO8: Ethics
PO9: Individual & Team work
PO10: Communication
PO11: Project management & Finance
PO12: Lifelong learning

PSO1: Design and develop an industrial drive system with the knowledge in electromagnetics, electrical engineering materials, electrical networks and power semiconductor
devices.
PSO2: Apply computational techniques and circuit behaviour for the design, analysis and control of modern power systems using controlled devices.
PSO3: Ability to use the knowledge of analog and digital electronics, signal processing, embedded controllers and transducers in collaboration with modern control
techniques to control any industrial process.

Subject CO Course Outcomes PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12 PSO1 PSO2 PSO3
Code

EEE341 CO1 Understand the static and dynamic 3

characteristics of power semiconductor
Power
devices.
Electronics
CO2 Analyze the behaviour of converters, 3 3
inverters and AC voltage regulators
 under different modes of operation

CO3 Choose and design a power converter 3 3 3

topology for a specific application.

CO4 Validate the power converter designs 3 3 3 2 3

using simulation tools

CO5 Investigate the harmonic distortion 3 3 3 3 2

introduced by power electronic
converters and propose mitigation
techniques

Mode P1, P2, ES, Simulation assignment, Quiz,

Tutorial