Industrial Power Control
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Industrial Power Control Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Industrial Power Control (subject code 4341706) as prescribed for PE · Semester 4 divides the course into 5 units, covering 62 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 (4341706)Unit 1 Power semiconductor Devices.
- 1.1. Industrial electronics devices :
- 1.1.1. Silicon controlled rectifier (SCR)
- 1.1.4. Metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET)
- 1.1.5. Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)
- 1.1.6. Unijunction Transistor (UJT)
- 1.1.7. Programmable unijunction transistor (PUT)
Unit 2 SCR : Triggering, Commutation and Protection.
- 2.1. Terminologies : On state voltage, Forward break over voltage, Peak inverse voltage, Forward dv/dt rating, Gate trigger voltage, On state current, di/dt rating, Holding current, Latching current, Gate current, Minimum gate current, Maximum gate Industrial Power Control Course Code: 4341706 methods / turn on methods of SCR with circuit diagram (No mathematical equation).
- 2.2. Triggering methods of SCR :
- 2.2.1. Forward voltage triggering
- 2.2.2. Radiation triggering
- 2.2.3. Thermal triggering
- 2.2.4. dv/dt triggering
- 2.2.5. Gate triggering
- 2.2.5.1. DC gate triggering
- 2.2.5.2. AC gate triggering
- 2.2.5.3. Pulse gate triggering
- 2.3. Commutation methods of SCR (Natural and Forced commutation) :
- 2.4. Protection for SCR :
- 2.4.1. Snubber circuit
- 2.4.2. Freewheeling Diode / Flyback diode
Unit 3 Controlled rectifier and Inverter
- 3.1. Need of various power converter.
- 3.2. Classify various power converter.
- 3.3. Single phase Controlled rectifier
- 3.3.1. Half wave controlled rectifier with resistive load.
- 3.3.2. Half wave controlled rectifier with R-L load.
- 3.3.3. Half wave controlled rectifier with R-L load with freewheeling diode.
- 3.3.4. Full wave controlled rectifier with resistive load.
- 3.3.5. Full wave controlled bridge type rectifier with resistive load.
- 3.3.6. Applications of controlled rectifier.
- 3.4. Single phase inverter.
- 3.3.1. Series inverter Industrial Power Control Course Code: 4341706
- 3.3.2. Parallel inverter
- 3.3.3. Bridge type inverter
- 3.3.4. Applications of Inverter.
Unit 4 Chopper and Cyclo- converter
- 4.1. PWM and duty cycle.
- 4.2. Basic block diagram of chopper.
- 4.3. Single phase chopper
- 4.3.1. Step up chopper
- 4.3.2. Step up-down chopper
- 4.3.3. Applications of chopper
- 4.4. Single phase Cyclo- converter using SCR
- 4.4.1. Step up mid point type cyclo-converter with resistive load.
- 4.4.2. Step down mid point type cyclo-converter with resistive load.
- 4.4.3. Step up bridge type cyclo-converter with resistive load.
- 4.4.4. Step down bridge type cyclo-converter with resistive load.
- 4.3.5. Applications of cyclo- converter.
Unit 5 Industrial and Commercial Applications of Power Electronics Devices
- 5.1. Concept of electric drive
- 5.1.1. D.C motor drives
- 5.1.2. A.C. Motor drives (Induction motor)
- 5.1.3. Stepper motor drive
- 5.2. Static Switches
- 5.2.1. Single phase A.C. Switches
- 5.3. Power control
- 5.3.1. DC power control using SCR and UJT.
- 5.3.2. Single phase AC power control using DIAC-TRIAC.
- 5.4. Industrial applications 5.4.1Temperature control
- 5.4.2. Liquid level control
- 5.4.3. Induction heating
- 5.4.3.1. Basic concept of Induction heating.
- 5.4.3.2. Applications of Induction heating.
- 5.5. Commercial application Industrial Power Control Course Code: 4341706
- 5.5.1. Battery charging of E- vehicles. Note: The UOs need to be formulated at the ‘Application Level’ and above of Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy’ to accelerate the attainment of the COs and the competency.