JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Prerequisite

Power Electronics

Course Objectives:

• Apply the concepts of power electronic converters for efficient conversion/control of power from source to load.
• Design the power converter with suitable switches meeting a specific load requirement.

Course Outcomes

After completion of this course, the student is able to

• Understand the operating principles of various power electronic converters.
• Use power electronic simulation packages& hardware to develop the power converters.
• Analyze and choose the appropriate converters for various applications Any eight experiments should be conducted
• 1. Study of Characteristics of SCR, MOSFET & IGBT,
• 2. Gate firing circuits for SCR’s
• 3. Single Phase AC Voltage Controller with R and RL Loads
• 4. Single Phase half controlled &fully controlled bridge converter with R and RL loads
• 5. Forced Commutation circuits (Class A, Class B, Class C, Class D & Class E)
• 6. Single Phase Cycloconverter with R and RL loads
• 7. Single Phase series& parallel inverter with R and RL loads
• 8. Single Phase Bridge inverter with R and RL loads Any two experiments should be conducted
• 1. DC Jones chopper with R and RL Loads
• 2. Three Phase half controlled bridge converter with R-load
• 3. Single Phase dual converter with RL loads
• 4. (a)Simulation of single-phase Half wave converter using R and RL loads (b)Simulation of single-phase full converter using R, RL and RLE loads (c)Simulation of single-phase Semi converter using R, RL and RLE loads R16 B.TECH EEE.
• 5. (a)Simulation of Single-phase AC voltage controller using R and RL loads (b)Simulation of Single phase Cyclo-converter with R and RL-loads
• 6. Simulation of Buck chopper
• 7. Simulation of single phase Inverter with PWM control
• 8. Simulation of three phase fully controlled converter with R and RL loads, with and without freewheeling diode. Observation of waveforms for Continuous and Discontinuous modes of operation.
• 9. Study of PWM techniques

Reference Books:

• 1. M. H. Rashid, Simulation of Electric and Electronic circuits using PSPICE – by M/s PHI Publications.
• 2. User’s manual of related softwares
• 3. Reference guides of related softwares
• 4. Rashid, Spice for power electronics and electric power, CRC Press R16 B.TECH EEE.