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12EE303CV
POWER ELECTRONICS
Instruction : 3Periods/Week
Tutorial : 1Period/Week
Credits : 3
Sessional Marks : 25
EndExamination : 75 Marks
Duration : 3Hours
UNIT-I
POWER SEMI CONDUCTOR DEVICES:Thyristors - Silicon
Controlled Rectifiers (SCR's) - BJ T- Power MOSFET- Power
IGBT and their characteristics and other thyristors - Basic
theory of operation of SCR - Static characteristics - Turn
on and turn off methods- Dynamic characteristics of SCR-
Turn on and Turn off times -Salient points.
UNIT-II
DEVICES AND COMMUTATION CIRCUITS:Two transistor
analogy - SCR - UJ T firing circuit --- Series and parallel
connections of SCR's- Snubber circuit details - Specifications
and Ratings of SCR's, BJ T,IGBT - Numerical problems - Line
Commutation and ForcedCommutation circuits.
UNIT-III
SINGLE PHASE HALF CONTROLLED CONVERTERS: Phase
control technique - Single phaseLinecommutated converters
- Mid point and Bridge connections - Half controlled
converters with Resistive, RLloads and RLEload- Derivation
of average load voltage and current -Active and Reactive
power inputs to the converters without andwith Freewheeling
Diode- Numerical problems.
UNIT-IV
SINGLE PHASE FULLYCONTROLLED CONVERTERS: Fully
controlled converters, Midpoint and Bridge connections with
Resistive, RLloads and RLEload- Derivation of average load
voltage and current - Line commutated inverters -Active
and Reactive power inputs to the converters without and
with Free wheeling Diode, Effect of source inductance -
Derivation of loadvoltage and current - Numerical problems.
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UNIT-V
THREE PHASE LINE COMMUTATED CONVERTERS:
Three phase converters - Three pulse and six pulse
converters - Midpoint and bridge connections average load
voltage With Rand RLloads - Effect of Source inductance-
Dual converters (both single phase and three phase) -
Waveforms -Numerical Problems.
UNIT-VI
AC VOLTAGE CONTROLLERS &CYCLOCONVERTERS:
ACvoltage controllers - Single phasetwo SCR'sinanti parallel
- With Rand RL loads - modes of operation of Triac - Triac
with Rand RLloads - Derivation of RMSloadvoltage, current
and power factor wave forms - Firing circuits-Numerical
problems -Cyclo converters - Single phase mid point cyclo
converters with Resistive and inductive load (Principle of
operation only) - Bridge configuration of single phase cyclo
converter (Principle of operation only) - Waveforms.
UNIT-VII
CHOPPERS:Choppers - Time ratio control and Current limit
control strategies - Step down choppers Derivation of load
voltage and currents with R, RL and RLE loads- Step up
Chopper - loadvoltage expression Morgan's chopper - J one's
chopper and Oscillation chopper (Principle of operation only)
Waveforms -- ACChopper - Problems.
UNIT-VIII
INVERTERS:Inverters - Single phase inverter - Basicseries
inverter - Basic parallel Capacitor inverter bridge inverter-
Waveforms - Simple forced commutation circuits for bridge
inverters - Mc Murray and Mc Murray - Bedford inverters -
Voltage control techniques for inverters Pulse width
modulation techniques - Numerical problems.
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TEXTBOOKS:
1. Power Electronics - by Vedam Subrahmanyam, 1
st
Edition
New Age International (P) Limited.
2. PowerElectronics -bv M.D.Singh & K.B. Khanchandani,
TataMcGraw-Hili Publishing Company, 2
nd
Edition, 1998.
3. Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices and Applications by
M.H. Rashid, Prentice Hall of India, 2
nd
Edition, 1998.
REFERENCES:
1. Power Electronics - by C.Lander, McGraw-Hili Company, 3
rd
Edition, 1993.
2. Power Electronics: Principles and Applications - by J .
Vithayathil, Ist Edition McGraw-Hili Company, 1995.
3. An Introduction to Thyristors and their Applications - by M.
Ramamoorthy, Affiliated East-West Press Pvt. Ltd.
4. Power Electronics - by P.c. Sen, 2
nd
Edition Tata McGraw
Hill Publishing Company.
5. Thyristorized Power Controllers - by G.K.Dubey, S.R.
Doradla, A. J oshi and R.M.K. Sinha, New Age
International Pvt Ltd, Publishers, 4th Edition, 1996.
6. "Thyristors: Theory and Applications" - by R.K. Sugandhi
and K.K. Sugandhi, New Age International Pvt Ltd,
Publishers, 2
nd
Edition, 1997.
7. Power Electronic Systems - Theory &Design - J ai P.Agarwal,
Pearson Education Asia, 2
nd
Edition, 2001.
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