Power Electronics & Drives
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Power Electronics & Drives Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Power Electronics & Drives (subject code 4350902) as prescribed for ELECTRICAL · Semester 5 divides the course into 4 units, covering 35 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 (4350902)Unit 1 Power Electronic Devices- Characteristi cs protection and working parameters as per data
- 1.1. Thyristor family
- 1.2. Working and characteristics of SCR, IGBT, GTO, MCT, Diac, Triac
- 1.3. Need of SCR protection- Over voltage, over current, di/dt, dv/dt Heating,
- 1.4. Need of snubber circuit, heatsink, freewheeling diode.
- 1.5. Turnoff Methods of SCR-
- 1.6. Natural and forced commutation.
- 1.7. Voltage, current and power ratings of SCR
Unit 2 Three phase uncontrolled and Single- phase controlled rectifiers and regulators
- 2.1. compare single phase and 3 phase rectifiers.
- 2.2. Three phase half wave, full wave uncontrolled rectifier
- 2.3. Six phase half wave, double star six phase rectifier
- 2.4. Derive rms current and voltage Idc and Edc for
- 3. phase half and full wave rectifier.
- 2.5. Transformer reactance, SUF, controlled rectifier.
- 2.6. Principle of AC Load control using SCR
- 2.7. Role of regulators and rectifiers in energy conservation
Unit 3 Choppers Inverters
- 3.1. Working Principle of Chopper
- 3.2. Configuration of Chopper
- 3.3. Chopper control
- 3.4. Principle of Inverter.
- 3.5. Single phase inverters- series parallel and half and full bridge, square wave, quasi wave inverter.
- 3.6. Methods of Voltage control in inverter- single pulse, multiple pulse and sine pulse modulation
- 3.7. Introduction to multilevel inverter- 3 level inverter diode clamped and capacitor clamped
- 3.8. Basics of Harmonics and power quality in power electronic
- 3.9. Application of inverter in solar energy using buck boost conversion.
Unit 4 Electric drives and Control
- 4.1. Block diagram of electric drives
- 4.2. Different parts of electric drives
- 4.3. Power Modulators
- 4.4. AC Drives – Inverter based
- 4.5. DC Drives- Rectifier and Chopper based
- 4.6. Cycloconverters -types, application and Power Electronics and Drives Course Code: 4350902 Topics and Sub-topics current control.
- 4.7. 4 Quadrant operation of DC drive
- 4.8. Speed control of 3phase induction motor using chopper.
- 4.9. Regenerative braking control in E- Vehicles
- 4.10. Single phase half semi and full converter drives
- 4.11. Speed control of Induction motor using various controls- Voltage, frequency V/F control