Introduction Author Dr.

Ali Hussein Numan

1-1 Power Electronic: Solid state electronic used to control the flow of electrical
power by supplying voltages, currents, and frequencies in a form that is optimally
suited for user load. Fig.1-1 shows a simple power electronic system.

1-2 Power semiconductor devices: An Electronic switches (power processor)

controlled by control signals that is generated by controller (integrated circuits and/
or digital signal processor).These power semiconductor devices can be broadly
classified into three groups according to their degree of controllability:
1. Uncontrolled turn on and off (Power Diode).
2. Controlled turn on uncontrolled turn off (Thyristors).
3. Controlled turn on and off (GTO, BJT, MOSFET, IGBT).

1-3 POWER ELECTRONICS APPLICATIONS:

Power electronics has a wide range of applications including:-
1. Power supplies (TV, Radio, Receiver, PC and its Peripherals, UPS, mobile phone
battery charger).
2. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration.
3. Elevators.
4. Electric drives.
5. Light control (dimmer).
6. High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) systems.
7. Flexible AC Transmission (FACT) system.
8. Solar power.
9. Micro grid.
10. Wind generation.

1-4 CLASSIFICATION OF POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS

Power electronics converters can be divided into the following categories:
1. AC-DC converter (rectifier): Convert input AC voltage into a DC output voltage.
2. DC-DC converter (DC Chopper): Convert fixed input DC voltage into variable
DC output voltage or vice versa.
3. AC-AC converter (AC voltage regulator also called cycloconverter): Convert
fixed input AC voltage and frequency into variable AC output voltage and variable
(lower) frequency.
4. DC-AC converter (Inverter): Convert input DC voltage into a variable AC
output voltage
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