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GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

ME – SEMESTER –I-(New) EXAMINATION – WINTER 2019
Subject Code: 3710713 Date: 09/05/2019
Subject Name: Power Electronics Converters and Applications
Time: 02:30 PM TO 05:00 PM Total Marks: 70
Instructions:
1. Attempt all questions.
2. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
3. Figures to the right indicate full marks

Marks
Q.1 (a) Illuminate static and dynamic characteristics of power BJT. 07
(b) Explain buck converter with their analysis. 07

Q.2 (a) Write down short note on thyristor driver circuit. 07

(b) What is significance of isolation in semiconductor driver circuit? 07
Explain application of pulse transformer and optocoupler in driver
circuit.
OR
(b) Described boost converter in detail. 07
Q.3 (a) Explain single-phase full AC-DC converter with RL load. 07
(b) Enlist power factor improvement techniques in AC-DC converter and 07
explain any one in detail.
OR
Q.3 (a) Provide analysis of three-phase half wave AC-DC converter. 07
(b) Illuminate three-phase dual converters. 07
Q.4 (a) Compare 120-degree and 180-degree conduction mode of three-phase 07
inverter and analyze any one with the help of waveforms and
equations.
(b) Which are the commonly used voltage control techniques of single 07
phase inverter? Provide brief description of sinusoidal pulse-width
modulation technique.
OR
Q.4 (a) Write short note on current source inverter. 07
(b) Explain concept of impedance source inverter. 07
Q.5 (a) Illustrate principle of ON-OFF control and phase control in AC 07
voltage controllers.
(b) Analyze single-phase full wave AC voltage controller. 07
OR
Q.5 (a) Explain three-phase full wave AC voltage controller. 07
(b) Describe single-phase to single-phase cycloconverter with circuit 07
diagram and waveform. How it differs from the three-phase
cycloconverter?

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