University of Madras - BSc Syllabus - Application Oriented Subject

UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN ELECTRONICS SCIENCE
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

Application Oriented Subject - C.Power Electronic

Unit-1

Power semiconductor devices : Power diode, Power transistor, TRIAC, MOSFET and IGBT - turn on methods, driver circuits - SCR characteristics - Two transistor analogy - methods of turning on and turning off- Series and parallel connections of SCRs.

Unit-2

Phase controlled converters : Single phase controlled rectifier - Half wave controlled rectifier with (1) Resistive load (2)RL load (3) RL load and battery - Full wave controlled rectifier with above types of loads - Three phase controlled rectifier - HVDC transmission.

Unit-3

Inverters: Single phase and three phase inverters - series and parallel inverters - bridge inverter - current source inverter.

Unit-4

Choppers and cycloconverters : Various types of DC choppers - step up chopper - AD chopper - Single phase AC chopper - Step up and step down cycloconverters - Three phase to single phase and Three phase to three phase cycloconverters.

Unit-5

Control circuits and application : Generation of control pulses - microprocessor based implementation - Static circuit breakers for DC and AC circuits - regulated power supply - UPS - SMPS.

Books for study and reference

1. Power Electronics - M.H. Rashid, Prentice Hall
2. Power Electronics - P.C.Sen, Tata McGraw Hill
3. Thyristorised Power Controllers - G.K. Dybey, Wiley Eastern Ltd.
4. An Introduction to Thyristors and their application - M. Ramamoorthy, Second Edition -East West Press.