6EE3 POWER SYSTEM INSTRUMENTATION
 

1. CONVERTERS: Performance measures of single and three-phase converters, discontinuous conduction in two quadrant converters, power factor improvements:Extinction angle control, symmetrical angle control, pulse width modulation control, and sinusoidal pulse width modulation control.

2. SWITCHING MODE REGULATORS: Buck, boost, buck-boost and Cuk regulators.

3. AC VOLTAGE CONTROLLERS: Single-phase AC controllers with R and RL load, sequence control of AC controllers, three phase AC controllers.

4. INVERTERS: Inverter classification, series and parallel inverters, self commutated inverters, single and three phase bridge inverters, voltage and current source inverter, pulse width modulated inverter. Voltage control of inverters.

5. CYCLOCONVERRTERS: Basic principle of operation,single phase to single phase, three phase to three phase and three phase to single phase cycloconverters. Output equation, control unit.

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4. C W lander:Power electronics, 2nd Ed, McGraw Hill 1987.

5. P S Bimbhra:Power electronics,2nd Ed. Khanna Publishers, New Delhi, 1998.

6. M D Singh and K B Khanchandani:Power electronics, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1998.