Power Electronics Converters and Applications
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Power Electronics Converters and Applications Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Power Electronics Converters and Applications (subject code 3710713) as prescribed for E(E& · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 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 (3710713)Unit 1 Semiconductor Devices
- Review of Semiconductor devices like Power BJT, SCR, MOSFET
- IGBT, GTO, MCT
- Static and dynamic characteristics of these devices
- Single quadrant
- Two quadrant and bid-directional switches
Unit 2 AC-DC Converters
- Single phase and three phase half wave and full wave
- 1-phase and 3- phase half controlled and fully controlled converters
- Analysis with R & RL load
- Performance parameters for converters
- Operation in continuous and dis-continuous mode
- Reactive power considerations
- Operation in conversion and inversion mode
- Effect of source inductance
- Power factor improvement techniques
- Dual Converters
Unit 3 Switching Voltage Regulators
- Linear power supply (voltage regulators)
- Switching voltage regulators
- Review of basic dc-dc voltage regulator configurations - Buck
- Buck-Boost converters and their analysis for continuous and discontinuous mode
- C’uk converter
- Sepic Converter
Unit 4 DC-AC converters/Inverters
- Review of line commutated inverters
- Concept of Unipolar and Bipolar PWM, 120° and 180° conduction mode of inverter
- Sine-triangular PWM, Effect or carrier frequency on the harmonics
- Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation
- Other PWM techniques