8EE4.3 ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS
 

1. MODERN POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES: ASCR, RCT, GATT, DIAC, Traic SUS, SBS, SCS, LASCR, Power Transistors, Power MOSFETS, IGBT, GTO, FCT, SITSITH and MCT Comparison of power Devices.

2. PWM INVERTERS: Principle of operation performance perameters. Single pulse, multiple pulse and sinusoidal PWM inverters. Advanced Modulation Techniques: Tapezooidal, staircase, stepped, harmonic injected and delta modulation. Harmonic reductions.

3. RESONANT CONVERTERS: Series resonant inverters, parallel resonant inverters, class E resonant converter, zero voltage switching resenant converter, zero current switching, resonant converter, Two-quadrant ZVS converter and resonant dc link inverter.

4. INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE: Scalar and vector control, voltgertz control, torque-flux control, current controller, PWM operation with block diagram. Operation and block diagram of vector control of current fed inverter drive.

5. UNIPOLAR AND BIPOLAR BRUSHLESS MOTOR DRIVE: Drive circuit for stepper motor unipolar and bipolar drive, switched reluctance motor drive.

6. POWER SUPPLIES: dc power supplies switched mode dc power supplies, resonant dc power supplies and bi-directional dc power supplies AC power supplies switched-mode ac power supplies, resonant ac power supplies and bi-directional ac power supplies.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

1. M.H. Rashd:Power Electronics, Circuits Devices and applications, prentice-Hall, 1988.

2. V Subrahmanysm:Power Electronics, New Age Inc.Publishers, New Delhi,1996.

3. P.C. Sen:Power Electronics, Tata McGraw-Hill, India.

4. C W Lander Power Electronics,2nd Ed.Mc Graw-Hill,1987.

5. M D Singh and KB Khanchandani Power Electronics, TMH Publishing Company, New Delhi.