Power Electronics Applications
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The official GTU curriculum for Power Electronics Applications (subject code 2182401) as prescribed for PE · Semester 8 divides the course into 8 units, covering 62 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 (2182401)Unit 1 Introduction
- Review of power electronics and power electronic system
- Role of power electronics in today’s energy systems used in various field of human life
- requirements of power electronics
- advantages and disadvantages of power electronics
Unit 2 Residential
- Air conditioning
- electric-door openers
- fan regulator
- BLDC fan, personal computers
- vacuum cleaners
- washing machine
- food mixers
- Audio Power amplifiers
- Role of power electronics in these applications
Unit 3 Commercial
- air-conditioning power supplies
- office equipment and power supply for the same
- On board power supply for low voltage microprocessors and graphics processors
- light dimmer
- uninterruptible power supplies
- central refrigeration
- Role of power electronics in these applications
Unit 4 Utility systems
- High voltage DC Transmission
- Excitation systems
- VAR compensators
- reactive power compensation
- Static circuit breakers
- fans and boiler feed pumps
- supplementary energy systems (solar
- Power Factor correction
- harmonic elimination etc.
- Role of power electronics in these applications
Unit 5 Industrial Applications
- Arc and Industrial furnaces
- blowers and fans
- pumps and compressors
- industrial lasers
- transformer tap changers
- rolling mills
- textile mills
- cement mills
- conveyer belt
- industrial robots
- Role of power electronics in these applications
Unit 6 Motion and position control
- Speed and position control of large motors for industrial and traction applications (with power measured in megawatts)
- small electric motors in consumer electronic equipment
- e.g. drive motors in tape recorders
- quod copters etc.
- motor control applications for printers
- CNC machines
- Automatic gates for water canals
- homes etc.
- Role of power electronics in these applications
Unit 7 Vehicular Power Electronics
- Electric vehicles
- Battery operated vehicles
- battery operated wheel chairs for physically challenged persons
- role of power electronics in these applications
Unit 8 Miscellaneous
- Aerospace applications like Space shuttle power supplies
- Satellite power supplies
- Aircraft power system
- Reliability of power supply for aerospace systems Green Energy related applications like interface of mains supply with solar power
- wind turbine
- tidal power
- ocean wave power etc.
- Power electronics in IoT applications Role of power electronics in these applications
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