Fundamental of Power Electronics
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The official GTU curriculum for Fundamental of Power Electronics (subject code BE05000541) as prescribed for Metallurgy · Semester 5 divides the course into 6 units, covering 46 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 (BE05000541)Unit 1 Introduction to Power Electronics & Power Semiconductor Devices
- Basics of Power Electronics
- Power Electronics Systems
- control vs power circuits.Device classification: Diodes, SCR, TRIAC
- DIAC, BJT, MOSFET
- Device structure & operation (conceptual)- Ratings
- switching frequency
- thermal considerations
Unit 2 Other Components in Power Electronics
- Passive components: Resistors: types
- Inductors: types
- energy storage
- Capacitors: ESR, ripple
- Transformers: isolation
- pulse transformers
- Protective components like MOV, Fuse
- their construction
- working and applications
Unit 3 Power Rectifiers
- Diode rectifiers: half/full wave
- Controlled rectifiers: half / fully controlled
- firing angle
- Effect of R, RL loads
- Applications of Power Rectifiers like power supplies
- battery charging etc
Unit 4 Inverters
- Need for DC–AC conversion
- inverter types
- VSI and CSI: square wave inverter
- Introductory PWM, 3-phase inverter basics
- Applications of inverters like UPS, EV drives
- solar inverters
- industrial motor drives etc
Unit 5 DC–DC Converters
- DC Power supply basics
- Linear power supply
- Concept of switching power supply
- Duty cycle and switching principles
- Buck–Boost converters
- Flyback and Forward converter basics
- isolated and non-isolated power supply
- Applications: SMPS
- EV subsystems
- battery chargers
- industrial power supply etc
Unit 6 AC–AC Converters
- Need for AC voltage/frequency control
- AC voltage controllers
- phase control
- Applications: light dimmers
- fan regulators
- soft starters
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