Advance Power Electronics
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The official GTU curriculum for Advance Power Electronics (subject code ME01000141) as prescribed for PS · Semester 1 divides the course into 7 units, covering 55 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 (ME01000141)Unit 1 Review of Semiconductor Power Devices
- Review of Semiconductor devices like Power diode
- Power BJT, SCR, MOSFET
- IGBT, GTO, MCT
- Static and dynamic characteristics of these devices
- controlled and uncontrolled switches
- Single quadrant
- Two quadrant and bi-directional switches
Unit 2 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
- Other converter configurations like Flyback converter
- Forward converter
- Half bridge
- Full bridge configurations
- Push-pull converter
- C’uk converter
- Sepic Converter
- Design criteria for SMPS
- Multi-output switch mode regulator
Unit 3 Design of Magnetic Components
- Design of power transformer
- high frequency transformers for flyback
- half-bridge–full bridge and push pull converters
- Design of inductors for various converter topologies
- Design of current transformers for high frequency current measurement
- Different types of core materials
Unit 4 DC-AC converters / Inverters
- Review of line commutated inverters
- Bridge inverters with 120°
- 180°, and 150° modes of operation
- Harmonic reduction techniques
- Sine-triangular PWM
- Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation
- Current Source Inverters
Unit 5 Gate and Base drive circuits
- Preliminary design considerations
- DC coupled drive circuits with unipolar and bipolar outputs
- Importance of isolation in driver circuits
- Electrically isolated drive circuits
- Some commonly available driver chips (based on boot-strap capacitor)
- Cascade connected drive circuits
- Thyristor drive circuits
- Protection in driver circuits
- Blanking circuits for bridge inverters
Unit 6 DC-AC and AC-AC converters
- Review of On-off and phase control
- Three phase half-wave and full wave controllers and their analysis with resistive loads
- circulating current operation
- non-circulating current operation
- mean output voltage and harmonics in supply current waveform
- Multilevel converters
- control and applications
- Matrix converters
- Three phase Cyclo-converters their working
- Program Name: Engineering Level: PG Branch: Electrical Engineering Course / Subject Code: ME01000141 Course / Subject Name: Advance Power Electronics
Unit 7 Advancements
- Latest developments in Power Electronics field related to new materials
- power topologies
- control strategies and ICs, applications etc
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