SYLLABUS:

Static V-I characteristics and firing/gating circuits for Thyristor, MOSFET,

IGBT; DC to DC conversion: Buck, Boost and Buck-Boost Converters; Single and
three-phase configuration of uncontrolled rectifiers; Voltage and Current commutated
Thyristor based converters; Bidirectional ac to dc voltage source converters;
Magnitude and Phase of line current harmonics for uncontrolled and thyristor based
converters; Power factor and Distortion Factor of ac to dc converters; Single-phase
and three-phase voltage and current source inverters, sinusoidal pulse width
modulation.

MARKS DISTRIBUTION:

YEAR MARKS
2016 10
2017 8
2018 9
2019 10
2020 11
2021 9
2022 7

NOTE:

In recent years, they mostly asks questions from rectifier, choppers and
inverter. So basic electronics devices not covered in this book.

Choppers and Inverter are relatively easy chapters. You can prepare by
understanding concept and most questions are formula based. But in rectifier, there
are so many formulas, So it is suggested to solve question by concept.

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 INDEX

Sr No. Topic Page no.

1 1-Phase Rectifier 3
2 3-Phase Rectifier 69
3 Line Commutated Inverter & Rectifier 92
with Source Inductance
4 Dual Converter 104
5 Choppers 110
6 Thyristor Commutation 137
7 1-Phase Inverter 158
8 3-Phase Inverter 175
9 Pulse Width Modulation 189