DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

Department of Electric Power Engineering

Course Title POWER ELECTRONICS IV 2019

SEMESTER H2
Code PETR401 |D3|22
Lectures Thursday: 05h00- 08h00 PM, Room: 557|0|BC0226 (Group A)
Contact Hours 2 Lectures/week

PRESCRIBED TEXT BOOKS:

Ned Mohan, Tore M. Underland, William P. Robbins, “Power Electronics: Converters,
Applications and Design,” 3rd edition, Wiley, 2003
http://uni-site.ir/khuelec/wp-content/uploads/Mohan-Power-Electronics.pdf

RECOMMANDED REFERENCE BOOKS:

The recommended books supplement the material found in the prescribed textbook. Students are
encouraged to read widely and should not restrict themselves to the given reference books.
1. M Rashid, Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices, and Applications, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall 1993.
2. Joseph Vithayathil, Power Electronics: Principles and Applications, 2nd Ed, Tata McGraw-Hill
Edition, 2010.

Recommended material: A copy of the prescribed textbook and most of the reference books
should be available in the library. The recommended reference textbooks need not to be
purchased.

STUDY THEMES DESCRIPTIONS:

http://uni-site.ir/khuelec/wp-content/uploads/Mohan-Power-Electronics.pdf

STUDY THEME 1: Power Semiconductor Devices & Introduction to power processing

(Chapter 1 & 2)
STUDY THEME 2: Line-Frequency Diode Rectifiers (Chapter 5)
 Single-Phase Diode Bridge Rectifiers
 Three-phase Diode Bridge Rectifiers
STUDY THEME 3: Line-Frequency Phase Controlled Rectifiers and Inverters (Chapter 6)
 Single-Phase Converters
 Three-Phase Converters
STUDY THEME 4: DC-DC Power Converters (chapter 7)
 Control of DC-DC converters (Choppers)
 Step-down DC-DC Converter,
 Step-up DC-DC Converter
 Buck-boost DC-DC Converter,
 Full-Bridge DC-DC Converters

STUDY THEME 5: DC-AC Power Converters (Chapter 8)

 Single-Phase DC-AC converters: Half-Bridge Inverters, Full-Bridge Inverters, Three-
Phase Inverters,
 PWM in Three-Phase Voltage Source Inverters,
 Square-Wave Operation in Three-Phase Inverters,
 Switch Utilization in Three-Phase Inverters

STUDY THEME 6: DC-DC Converters with Electrical Isolation (Chapter 10)

 Flyback Converters (Derived from Buck-Boost Converters)
 Forward Converter (Derived from Step-down Converter)
 Push-Pull Converter (Derived from Step-Down Converter)
 Half-Bridge and Full-Bridge Converters (Derived from Step-Down Converter)

ASSESSMENT

Continuous: 40 % (Random Class Quizzes, Homework/Tutorial Assignments, Test 1

and Test 2)
Provisional Test Dates: Test 1 [Thursday, 29 August 2019, 17h00- 19h00];
Test 2 [Thursday, 03 October 2019, 17h00- 19h00
Examination: 1 x 3 hour paper [Date is TBA]
Course Lecturer: Dr. Kabeya Musasa, PhD-Eng. (UP), C. Eng. (ECSA), MSAIE
|E-mail: MusasaK@dut.ac.za|
Office: Steve BIKO Campus S7-306, Department of Electrical Power Engineering

For examination admission: A semester mark of at least 40% is required.

Calculation of semester mark: Assignments/class tests: 30%; Test 1: 35%; Test 2: 35%

Calculation of final mark: Semester mark 40%; Exam mark 60%; Final mark 100%

Pass requirements:
In order to pass this module, a learner must obtain a final mark of at least 50%.