EC 2033 Power Electronics syllabus download

EC2033 POWER ELECTRONICS L T P C 3 0 0 3
UNIT I POWER ELECTRONICS DEVICES 9
Characteristics of power devices - characteristics of SCR, diac, triac, SCS, GTO, PUJT
- Power transistors - power FETs - LASCR - two transistor model of SCR - Protection
of thyristors against over voltage - over current, dv / dt and di / dt.
UNIT II TRIGGERING TECHNIQUES 9
Turn on circuits for SCR - triggering with single pulse and train of pulses - synchronizing
with supply - triggering with microprocessor - forced commutation - different techniques
- Series and parallel operations of SCRs.

UNIT III CONTROLLED RECTIFIERS 9
Converters - single phase - three phase - half controlled and fully controlled rectifiers -
Waveforms of load voltage and line current under constant load current - effect of
transformer leakage inductance - dual converter.
UNIT IV INVERTERS 9
Voltage and current source inverters, resonant, Series inverter, PWM inverter. AC and
DC choppers - DC to DC converters - Buck, boost and buck - boost.
UNIT V INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS 9
DC motor drives - Induction and synchronous motor drives - switched reluctance and
brushless motor drives - Battery charger - SMPS - UPS - induction and dielectric
heating.
TOTAL = 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. Muhamed H.Rashid: Power Electronics Circuits, Devices and Applications, 3
rd
Edition. 2004 PHI.
2. M.D. Singh and K.B. Kanchandani, Power Electronics, 2
nd Edition, TMH, 2007.
REFERENCES
1. Sen: Power Electronics, TMH, 1987.
2. Dubey: Thyristorised Power Controllers, Wiley Eastern 1986.
3. Vithayathil: Power Electronics - Principles and Applications, McGraw-Hill, 1995.
4. Lander: Power Electronics, 3
5. Jacob, Power Electronics, Thomson Learning, 2002.
6. V.R. Moorthy, Power Electronics, Oxford University Press, 2005.rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1994.

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