Application of Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Conversion
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The official GTU curriculum for Application of Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Conversion (subject code 2724509) as prescribed for E(E& · Semester 2 divides the course into 4 units, covering 44 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 (2724509)Unit 1 Solar Energy Systems
- Fundamentals of Solar Energy - The sun and earth
- sun-earth movement
- Local Apparent Time
- path of son’s motion
- optimal angle for fixed collector surface
- estimation of solar radiation Solar PV modules - Solar PV modules from PV cells
- Mismatch in series and parallel connection
- Design and structure of PV modules
- PV module characteristics Solar Energy Conversion Systems - DC to DC converters for Solar Energy Systems: Buck
- Buck-Boost converter and their control
- Charge Controller
- DC to AC inverter
- Pulse Width Modulation of inverter
- Maximum Power Point Tracking Algorithms: Perturb and Observe
- Incremental Conductance method
- MPPT voltage and current definition
- Stand-alone PV system Configurations
- Hybrid PV System
- Grid connected PV system
Unit 2 Wind Energy Systems
- Development of Wind Power Generation
- Wind Power Conversion
- Power Equation for wind turbine
- Power converter for Wind Turbines
- Control and Grid requirement for Modern Wind Turbines
- Types of Wind Generators
- Singly Excited Induction Generator (SEIG)
- Stand alone operation of fixed and variable speed energy conversion systems
- Capacitance Requirement
- Doubly Fed Induction Generator: Principle
- Operation and their analysis
- Vector Control of DFIG using an AC-DC- AC converter
- DFIG based Wind Energy Conversion Systems
Unit 3 Controllability Analysis of Renewable Energy Systems
- 6 Zero dynamics of Nonlinear systems
- Controllability of wind turbine connected to grid through L and LCL filter
- Controllability and Stability Analysis of PV systems connected to Current Source Inverter
Unit 4 Fuel Cell Systems
- Basic of Fuel Cell - Fuel Cell Principles
- Fuel Cell Commercial Technologies
- Power Characteristics of Fuel Cell- Static Characteristics
- dynamic behaviour
- Fuel Cell Modeling - Fuel cell electrical equivalent circuit
- PEMGC Modeling
- Power Electronic converter for Fuel Cell- Review of DC-DC Power Converter
- Isolated DC-DC Power Converter
- Other Power Electronic converters