Friday 24 March 2017

MIDSEM-2 Syllabus for Power Electronics-2

1. DC TO AC CONVERTERS: INVERTERS
Performance parameters of Inverters; Classification of Inverters: Voltage source inverters and Current source inverters; Single phase inverters: series, parallel and bridge type (Half wave and Full wave) inverters; Forced Commutated, Line commutated and Self-Controlled Switches based Inverters; Three phase bridge inverters: 180 degree conduction, 120 degree conduction and their comparison PWM Inverters: Principle of PWM control, PWM techniques classifications, Unipolar and Bipolar PWM, Effect of Switching frequency on Harmonic Spectrum, Sinusoidal PWM, Third harmonic PWM, Selective Harmonic Elimination, Hysteresis band current control PWM, Space vector pulse width modulation technique, Comparison of PWM techniques, Voltage and frequency control of single phase and three-phase inverters, Harmonic Cancellation techniques Gating circuits for switches of inverter, Gate driver ICs having high side and low side reference output for driving switches of legs of inverters (like IR25604) Current Source Inverters: single phase and three phase ASCI and selfcontrolled switch based inverters; Comparison of Voltage and Current source Inverters.

2. AC VOLTAGE CONTROLLERS
Concept of On-Off or integral cycle control and Phase control; Various single phase full wave ac-ac controllers with R, L and RL load; Analysis for phase control and integral cycle control; Gating requirements; Sequence Control of AC regulators; 3-phase full wave converter configurations with Y and ? connected loads and their analysis with R load; AC Voltage controller with PWM control; Basic principle of matrix converter

3. CYCLOCONVERTERS
Introduction; Basic Principle; Single to single-phase cycloconverters; Three-phase half-wave cycloconverters; Cycloconverters for three phase output; Output voltage equation; Output harmonics in cycloconverter; Comparison between cycloconverter and DC link Converter; Load Commutated cycloconverter.

4. Induction Motor Drives
Comparison of ac & dc drive; their selection for particular application; Review of Induction Motor fundamentals: Equivalent circuit, Characteristics, Basic Equations and speed control methods; motoring and braking Soft starting: Stator voltage control with AC voltage controller; Six-step VSI inverter based drives; PWM-VSI drives; Braking and multi-quadrant operation of VSI drives; Cycloconverter based induction motor drive; Variable frequency control from a current source; Slip power control using Rotor resistance along-with chopper; Closed loop control schemes; Effect of non-sinusoidal wave form on AC machine performance;

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