FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY

EE 4705 Power Electronics

Course Outline 2/2021

Class : Wednesday, 9:00-12:00, online via MS Teams

Prerequisite : EE 3601 Electronics Circuits Design
Lecturer : Wisuwat Plodpradista, Ph.D.
Office : VME0309
Contact : wisuwatp@yahoo.com

Objectives : To understand the characteristics of various power semiconductor devices used for the
control and conversion of electrical power, and to study and analyze the applications
of power electronics circuits.

Textbook : Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices, and Applications 3rd Ed. 2004
M.H. Rashid, Pearson Education, Inc.

References. : 1. Introduction to Power Electronics

D.W. Hart, Prentice-Hall, Inc.
2. Power Electronic Circuits
Issa Bataseh, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
3. Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design 2nd Ed.
N. Mohan, T. Undeland and W. Robbins, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Grading: Assignments 5%
Quizzes 5%
Midterm Examination (Jan 18,15:00-17:00) 40%
Final Examination (Mar 21,13:00-16:00) 50%
Total 100%

Tentative Class Schedule:

Week Topic
1 Introduction, Review of characteristics of power semiconductor device
2 Reviews of power computations, Uncontrolled rectifiers: single- and three-phase
3 Thyristor characteristics, Turn-on and -off of thyristor
4 Controlled rectifiers: single-phase converters
5 Controlled rectifiers: three-phase converters
6 Design of converter circuits
7 DC drives: single-phase and three-phase drives
8 AC voltage controllers: principles, single-phase controllers
9 DC-DC converters: Buck, Boost
10 DC-DC converters: Buck-boost, Cúk
11 DC-DC converters (chopper) drives
12 PWM inverter: single-phase bridge inverter
13 PWM inverter: three-phase inverter
14 Voltage controls of single-phase and three-phase inverters
15 Speed control of induction motors using voltage control