10EC73 POWER ELECTRONICS VTU Syllabus

POWER
ELECTRONICS
IA
SubjectCode :10EC73 Marks :25
Exam
No.ofLectureHrs/Week:04 Hours :03
Exam
Totalno.ofLectureHrs.:52 Marks :100
PARTA
UNIT1
Introduction,Applicationsofpowerelectronics,Powersemiconductor
devices, Control characteristics, Types of power electronics circuits,
Peripheraleffects.6Hours
UNIT2
POWER TRANSISTOR:Power BJTs, Switching characteristics,
Switching limits, Base derive control, Power MOSFETs, Switching
characteristics,Gatedrive,IGBTs,Isolationofgateandbasedrives.
6Hours
UNIT3
INTRODUCTION TO THYRISTORS:Principle of operation
statesanodecathodecharacteristics, Two transistor model.Turn
onMethods, DynamicTurnonandturnoffcharacteristics, Gate
characteristics, Gate trigger circuits, di / dt and dv / dt protection,
Thyristorfiringcircuits.
7Hours
UNIT4
CONTROLLED RECTIFIERS:Introduction, Principles of phase
controlled converter operation, 1 fully controlled converters, Duel
converters,1 semiconverters(allconverterswithR&RLload).
7Hours
PARTB
 UNIT5
Thyristor turn off methods, natural and forced commutation, self
commutation,classAandclassBtypes,Complementarycommutation,
auxiliary commutation, external pulse commutation, AC line
commutation,numericalproblems.7Hours
UNIT6
ACVOLTAGECONTROLLERS:Introduction,Principlesofonand
offcontrol,Principlesofphasecontrol,Singlephasecontrollerswith
restiveloadsandInductiveloads,numericalproblems.6Hours

UNIT7
DC CHOPPERS:Introduction, Principles of step down and step up
choppers, Step downchopperwith RL loads, Chopper classification,
Switchmoderegulatorsbuck,boostandbuckboostregulators.6
Hours
UNIT8
INVERTORS:Introduction, Principles of operation, Performance
parameters,1 bridgeinverter,voltagecontrolof1 invertors,current
sourceinvertors,VariableDClinkinverter.
7Hours
TEXTBOOKS:
1.PowerElectronicsM.H.Rashid3rdedition,PHI/Pearsonpublisher
2004.
2.Power Electronics M. D. Singh and Kanchandani K.B. TMH
publisher,2ndEd.2007.
REFERENCEBOOKS:
1.PowerElectronics,EssentialsandApplications,LUmanand,John
WileyIndiaPvt.Ltd,2009.
2.PowerElectronics,DanielW.Hart,McGrawHill,2010.
3.PowerElectronics,VNattarasuandR.S.Anandamurhty,
Pearson/SanguinePub.2006