National Institute of Technology Rourkela

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Syllabus

Course Details

Subject {L-T-P / C} : EE6409 : Power Electronics Converters { 3-0-0 / 3}

Subject Nature : Theory

Coordinator : Anup Kumar Panda

Syllabus

Module 1 :

Single Phase AC-DC Converters: Single phase half controlled and fully controlled AC/DC bridge converter with R, R-L, R-L-E (motor) loads: operation (both rectifier and inverter modes) , waveforms, harmonics (output voltage/current and input current) assuming continuous conduction, input current (ac) displacement, distortion and power factor, effect of input line inductance assuming constant current dc load, closed form expression of output dc current with general R-L-E load, discontinuous conduction mode of operation,

Module 2 :

Three Phase AC-DC Converters: Three phase half controlled and fully controlled AC/DC bridge converter, assuming constant dc current load: operation in rectifier and inverter modes, waveforms, output voltage and input current harmonics, input power factor and effect of input line inductance, series and parallel operation of converters, power factor improvement, 12 pulse/18 pulse operation, dual converters

Module 3 :

DC-DC converters: buck, boost, buck-boost and Cuk converter, Bidirectional DC-DC converters, Interleaved DC-DC Converters, operation, waveforms and design.

Module 4 :

Inverters: Single-phase and three-phase inverters - PWM techniques: single, multiple and sinusoidal PWM techniques - selective harmonic elimination, space vector modulation, current source inverter

Module 5 :

High Power Inverters: Multilevel Inverters: Diode Clamped Multilevel Inverter, Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverter, Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter, Modulation Techniques for Multilevel Inverters.

Course Objective

1 .

To give a systematic approach for transient and steady state analysis of all power electronic converters with passive and active loads.

Course Outcome

1 .

Understand the working of various power Converters.

2 .

Analyze and design power converter configurations for specific applications

3 .

Apply suitable control techniques for low and medium-power converters

Essential Reading

1 .

M. H. Rashid, Power Electronics Handbook, Butterworth-Heinemann Inc , 2024, 5th Edition.

2 .

N. Mohan, T.M. Undeland, W.P. Robbins, , Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design, John Wiley & Sons , 2003, 3rd Edition

3 .

Daniel W.Hart, Power Electronics, McGraw-Hill , 2015, 7th Edition

4 .

P.C.Sen, Modern Power Electronics, Devices and Applications, Prentice Hall India , 2005, 1st Edition

Supplementary Reading

1 .

L. Umanand, , Power Electronics: Essentials and Applications, , John Wiley India, , 2009, 1st Edition.

2 .

B. Jayant Baliga,, Fundamentals of Power Semiconductor Devices, , Springer, , 2018, 2nd Edition.

3 .

Bin Wu,, High Power Converters and AC Drives, , Wiley-Interscience, . , 2017, 2nd Edition

4 .

Derek A Paice, , Power Electronic Converter Harmonics Multipulse Method for Clean Power, , IEEE Press, , 1995.

Journal and Conferences

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