Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems
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The official GTU curriculum for Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems (subject code 2740705) as prescribed for EE · Semester 4 divides the course into 3 units, covering 25 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 (2740705)Unit 1 Energy Scenario
- National and International current energy scenario
- Share of renewable and non- renewable energy sources
Unit 2 Photovoltaic Energy Conversion Systems
- Introduction to solar cell
- PV cell technology
- I-V and P-V curves of PV cell/modules/array
- Electrical modeling of PV cell
- Sun tracking and Sun tracking System (Mechanical Tracking)
- Maximum Power Point Tracking (Electrical Tracking)
- MPPT techniques
- I-V and P-V curves under non-uniform conditions
- PV inverter configurations
- Distributed MPPT
- Control of PV inverter/converter configurations
- Grid connected Systems
- Islanded systems
- Recent development in converter configurations for PV
Unit 3 Wind Energy Conversion Systems
- Basics of wind energy
- Components of wind turbine
- Wind turbine aerodynamics
- MPPT control
- Modeling of wind energy system
- Types of generators: induction (singly fed and doubly fed) and synchronous generators
- Converters for wind energy conversion system
- Fixed speed and variable speed wind energy conversion system
- Control schemes for different wind energy conversion system configurations