Power Electronics Definition and Block

Diagram
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Applications
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Fan Regulator
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Advantages and Disadvantages of PE
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Advantages
• Increased efficiency of power converters due to less loss in power semiconductor devices.
• Life period of power converter circuit is long.
• Less maintenance is required due to absence of moving components in power electronics converters.
• The dynamic response of power electronics converters is very fast compared to electromechanical converters.
• The size and weight of power electronics converters is less. Hence the installation cost is low.

Disadvantages
• Generate harmonics in the supply system as well as in the load.
• The ac-to-dc and ac-to-ac converters operate at low power factor under certain conditions.
• The overload capacity of power electronics converters is low.
• The cost of power electronics converters is high.

How to Overcome these Disadvantages ?

• Advanced, Efficient and High Frequency Switches

• Filters
• Advanced Converters (Ex: Resonant Converters)
• Advanced Control Techniques (PWM, Sinusoidal PWM, Space Vector Modulation, Direct Torque Control)

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Syllabus
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GATE
Static V-I characteristics and firing/gating circuits for Thyristor, MOSFET, IGBT; DC to DC conversion: Buck, Boost
and Buck-Boost Converters; Single and three-phase configuration of uncontrolled rectifiers; Voltage and Current
commutated Thyristor based converters; Bidirectional ac to dc voltage source converters; Magnitude and Phase of line
current harmonics for uncontrolled and thyristor based converters; Power factor and Distortion Factor of ac to dc
converters; Single-phase and three-phase voltage and current source inverters, sinusoidal pulse width modulation.

ESE:
Power Electronics and Drives
Semiconductor power diodes, transistors, thyristors, triacs, GTOs, MOSFETs and IGBTs - static characteristics and
principles of operation, triggering circuits, phase control rectifiers, bridge converters - fully controlled and half
controlled, principles of choppers and inverters, basic concepts of adjustable speed dc and ac drives, DC-DC switched
mode converters, DC-AC switched mode converters, resonant converters, high frequency inductors and transformers,
power supplies

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Weightage
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Reference Books
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Signal Level and Power Level Devices
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Switch
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Transition behavior of switch
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Transition behavior of switch during Turn ON

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Average and RMS value of function
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Numerical 1
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The current through and voltage across a switch are as shown in figure. Find average current, RMS current and average power loss

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