FUNDAMENTALS OF

POWER ELECTRONICS

ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING PROF. L UMANAND PROF. VIVEK AGARWAL
Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering
IISc Bangalore IIT Bombay

TYPE OF COURSE : New | Core/Elective | UG/PG COURSE DURATION : 12 weeks (28 Jan’19-19 Apr’19)
INTENDED AUDIENCE : BE/ME (EE/EC/EI) EXAM DATE : 28 April 2019
PRE-REQUISITES : Electrical and electronic circuits basics, network theory & semiconductor physics basics
INDUSTRIES APPLICABLE TO : General Electric, ABB, Siemens, BHEL, BEL, etc.

COURSE OUTLINE :
The course introduces basics of power electronic devices and converters. Basic working principle, operating modes
and analysis of DC-DC, DC-AC, AC-DC, and AC-AC converters would be covered. Control of power electronic

space vector modulation would be included.

ABOUT INSTRUCTOR :
He received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in physics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, Delhi, India, in 1985; the
M.E. degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, in 1990; and the Ph.D.
degree in electrical engineering from the University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, in 1994.
Prof. L.Umanand faculty at the Department of Electronics System Engineering of Indian Institute of Science,
Bangalore. He has been teaching, guiding and consulting in power electronic converters for more than two decades.
His area of research are in power conversion, renewable energy systems and modelling.
COURSE PLAN :
Week 01 :

components (introduction to switches).

Week 02 : Review of basic concepts-Engineering Math, Elec. | Power Diodes | Thyristors (SCR) | Thyristors (GTO).
Week 03 : Power BJT : Introduction, Structure, Operation, Characteristics, Equations., Losses, Drawbacks | Power
MOSFET : Introduction, Structure, Operation. Characteristic, Losses, Merits, Demerits, Applications | Power
IGBT : Introduction, Structure, Operation. Characteristics. Losses, Applications, Merits, Demerits,
SiC, GaN devices.
Week 04 :

Week 05 :
AC-AC Conv. 1-φ AC voltage controllers | AC-AC Conv. 3-φ AC voltage controllers | AC-AC Conv. 3-φ AC
voltage controllers | Cyclo-converters- 1- φ operation with R & R-L load.
Week 06 : Cyclo-converters- Circulation mode operation Waveforms and Equations | Matrix converters | Introduction
and basic operation | DC-DC Conv.- Introduction, Types of DC/DC | DC-DC Conv.- Drawbacks of Linear Power
Supplies Basic Switching Converter | DC-DC Conv.- Introduction and Buck conv.
Week 07 : DC-DC Conv.- Boost Conv. | DC-DC Conv.- Buck-Boost Conv. | Synchronous Buck Converter | DC-DC Conv.-
Cuk Conv. | DC-DC Conv.- SEPIC Conv. | 1st, 2nd and 4th quadrant operation of DC-DC converters.
Week 08 :
Basic Operation | Resonant DC-DC converters. ZVS & ZCS | DC-AC Conv Intro: Types and Working principles
| 1- φ half bridge inverter: Topology & working.
Week 09 : 1- φ full bridge inverter: Topology & Working, Square wave & quasi wave operation | 1- φ half bridge
inverter: Square wave & quasi wave operation | PWM operation: SPWM-Bipolar, Unipolar, Merits & demerits,
Applications | 3- φ VSI Topology & working.
Week 10 : 3- φ VSI : Square wave operation, PWM operation (SPWM), Space vector modulation (SVPWM), etc. |
Resonant Inverters : Basic Operation, Inverters Applications | CSI-Topology and Basic Operations | MLI –
Topology: Operation and basic topologies.
Week 11 : MLI – Topology(NPC) Basic Operations | Gate Drive: Need for drives, examples | Gate Drive Circuits: SCR drive
| Gate drive: MOSFET & IGBT drive | Snubbers: Need for Snubbers, Types and examples | Snubber: Design
Equations.
Week 12 : Intro of basics of magnetic Concepts | Inductor Design: Area Product approach, Examples and Applications
| Transformer Design: Area Product approach, Examples and Applications |Application of PE in Solar PV:
Introduction, V-I Char.,Types and MPPT.

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