Power Electronic Devices, Circuits and Applications
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The official GTU curriculum for Power Electronic Devices, Circuits and Applications (subject code BE04024021) as prescribed for PE · Semester 4 divides the course into 6 units, covering 52 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 (BE04024021)Unit 1 Power Semiconductor Devices
- Types of Power devices
- characteristics and ratings of Power devices like Diodes, BJT, SCR, TRIAC
- IGBT etc.
- Comparison of these devices
- Construction and characteristics of DIAC, UJT, PUT etc.
- SiC (Silicon Carbide)
- GaN (Gallium Nitride) devices
- Basics of Intelligent Modules
- Snubber circuits
- 10 Program Name: Bachelor of Engineering Level: UG Branch: Power Electronics Engineering Subject Code: BE04024021 Subject Name: Power Electronic Devices
- Circuits and Applications Sr
- Content Total Hrs Firing circuit for thyristors
- Gate drive circuits for SCR, TRIAC
- MOSFET and IGBT
- Power Electronic converter types AC-DC
Unit 2 AC-DC Controlled Converters
- Single phase half and fully controlled converters: Performance analysis with R and RL load under continuous and discontinuous conduction modes
- input power factor
- Concepts of PWM and phase-angle control
- Effect of source impedance
- Three- phase half and fully controlled converter: Performance analysis
- Dual converters
Unit 3 DC-DC Converters
- Boost and Buck-Boost DC-DC converters
- design equations
- forward and fly-back converters
- Control strategies like TRC (Time Ratio Control) and CLC (Current Limit Control)
- multi-quadrant operation
- EMI / EMC issues
- Concept of soft switching techniques - ZVS (zero-voltage switching) and ZCS (zero-current switching)
Unit 4 DC-AC Converters
- Inverter types
- Single phase and three phase voltage source inverters (120° and 180° mode): analysis under R and RL loads
- harmonic analysis
- PWM control techniques: Square-wave
- modified sinusoidal and space-vector
- selective harmonic elimination
- Output voltage and frequency control
- Harmonic spectrum and its effects
Unit 5 AC-AC Converters
- AC voltage regulators (Single-phase and three-phase)
- Circuit configurations
- performance analysis
- harmonic analysis
- Matrix converters
- principle of on-off control
- basic principle of operation – single-phase to single-phase
- multi-phase cycloconverters
Unit 6 Power Electronics Applications
- Switching Power Supplies
- Electrical drives
- high voltage DC Transmission
- renewable energy - based systems like solar & wind
- power quality improvement
- electric vehicles
- energy storage solutions
- Elevators etc
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