Description
In this course you will learn :
Week 1: Introduction to Power Electronics
Week 2: Power devices : Diodes, SCRs, GTO, BJT, MOSFET, IGBT- Characteristics, working, selection and protection
Week 3: AC-DC converter: half wave & full wave; uncontrolled, semi-controlled & fully controlled; single-phase and three-phase
Week 4: Assignment No. 2 and 3 on single-phase and three-phase converters and simulations
Week 5: AC-AC converters: AC voltage controllers and cycloconverters
Week 6: Non-isolated DC-DC converters: Buck, Boost, Buck-boost & Cuk
Week 7: Isolated DC-DC converters
Week 8: DC-AC Inverters: Single-phase and three-phase, modulation techniques
Week 9: Current Source inverter
Week 10: Applications of Power Electronics in Generation, Transmission, Distribution & utilization sectors
Week 11: Assignment No. 6 on Isolated DC-DC converters: Problems and simulation
Week 12: Assignment No. 7&8 on DC-AC inverters (single-phase and three-phase): problems and simulation