Advanced Power Electronics
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Power Electronics (subject code BE05009061) as prescribed for Electrical Engineering · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 26 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 (BE05009061)Unit 1 Front-End Converters
- Introduction to front-end converters
- classification of FECs
- active front-end converters
- PWM rectifiers
- unity power factor operation
- harmonic mitigation techniques, and applications in drives
Unit 2 Isolated and Non-Isolated DC–DC Converters
- Non-isolated converters: Buck
- Buck Boost converters
- Isolated converters: Fly- back
- Full-Bridge converters
- Comparison, and applications
Unit 3 Multilevel Inverters
- Introduction to multilevel converters
- advantages and limitations
- diode-clamped (NPC)
- flying capacitor, and cascaded H bridge inverters
- Voltage balancing issues and applications in medium- and high voltage systems
Unit 4 Control Techniques for Multilevel Converters
- Control objectives
- voltage and current control strategies
- capacitor voltage balancing methods
- carrier-based PWM techniques
- nearest level modulation, and digital control concepts
Unit 5 Advanced PWM Techniques
- Sinusoidal PWM (SPWM)
- Space Vector PWM (SVPWM)
- Phase-Shifted Carrier PWM (PSC-PWM)
- Level-Shifted PWM (PD, POD, APOD)
- comparison based on THD, switching losses, and complexity