Power Electronics Devices and Drives
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The official GTU curriculum for Power Electronics Devices and Drives (subject code BE05000051) as prescribed for EIE · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 49 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (BE05000051)Unit 1 Power Semiconductor Devices
- Introduction to Power Electronics
- Need for power semiconductor devices
- Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR): Structure
- Two-transistor analogy
- Turn-on and Turn-off methods
- Gate triggering circuits
- Ratings and protection (dv/dt
- snubber circuits)
- Series and parallel operation
- Power Transistors: Power BJT, Power MOSFET - structure
- Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT): Structure
- working principle
- latch-up, and applications
- Other Devices: Introduction to GTO, TRIAC
- DIAC, and their basic operating principles
- Recent trends in power devices (e.g.
- SiC and GaN devices)
Unit 2 AC to DC Converters (Phase-Controlled Rectifiers)
- Principle of phase control
- Single-phase half-wave and full-wave controlled rectifiers with R, RL, and RLE loads
- Effect of freewheeling diode
- Performance parameters of rectifiers
- Single-phase fully-controlled and half-controlled bridge converters
- Three-phase controlled rectifiers: three-pulse and six-pulse bridge converters with R load
- Applications of rectifiers in drives and HVDC
- Generation of firing pulses for converters
Unit 3 DC to DC Converters (Choppers)
- Principle of step-down and step-up choppers
- Control strategies (PWM and FM)
- Types of choppers: First quadrant
- second quadrant
- two-quadrant, and four-quadrant choppers (Type A, B, C, D, and E) with load
- Steady-state analysis of buck and boost converters
- Introduction to isolated converters: flyback and forward converters
- Applications of choppers in SMPS and DC drives
Unit 4 DC to AC Converters (Inverters) and AC to AC Converters
- Inverters: Principle of operation
- Single-phase half-bridge and full-bridge inverters with R load
- Three-phase bridge inverters (180° conduction modes) with R load
- Voltage control techniques: PWM techniques (single-pulse)
- AC to AC Converters: Principle of on-off control and phase control
- Single- phase AC voltage controller with R load
- Introduction to cycloconverters: single- phase to single-phase step-up and step-down cycloconverters
Unit 5 Electric Drives
- Fundamentals of Electric Drives: Basic block diagram
- components, and classification of electric drives
- Four-quadrant operation of drives
- Joint speed-torque characteristics of motors and loads
- DC Drives: Single-phase and three-phase converter-fed DC motor drives for speed control (continuous conduction mode)
- Chopper-fed DC motor drives for speed control (motoring and braking)
- AC Drives: Speed control of induction motors: Stator voltage control using AC voltage regulators
- V/f control using inverters
- Selection of drives for industrial Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Instrumentation and Control Subject Code: BE05000051 Subject Name: Power Electronics Devices and Drives applications (pumps
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