K L UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

Class: III BTECH Semester: I Home Asst-1 Academic year:2014-15
Subject Code & Name: POWER ELECTRONICS & 11EE303 Date:22/08/2014
Paper Setter: K.NARASIMHA RAJU Max. Marks: 5 Duration: 1week

Task Suppose that youre appointed as Power Electronics Design Engineer in Honeywell Aero
lightening systems to design power converters for Airplane lightning .As a pilot project you are asked to
design a very basic lightning control using R,RC firing circuit of SCR. The project would involve
i) Select appropriate SCR from MULTISIM database as per the load specification, By calculating
SCR specifications V
DRM
,V
RRM
,I
Tavg
,I
Trms


Roll nos Load
1-10 24VDC,10W
11-20 50VDC,40W
21-30 100VDC,100W
31-40 150VDC,200W
41-50 220VDC,300W
51 + 400VDC,500W
ii) Design of components for R,RC firing circuits
iii) Simulate it using SPICE Softwares like MULTISIM

Date of submission: 01/09/2014