UNIT I POWER SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES: Construction, Principle of operation

Power diodes , power transistors SCR, TRIAC, GTO, MOSFET, IGBT – driver circuit,
turn – on method – commutation series and parallel connections

UNIT II PHASE CONTROLLED CONVERTERS: Converter inverters operation –

Single phase and three phase-controlled rectifiers(half and full converters) with R,RL and
RLE load effect of source inductance and firing circuits – Dual converters – single phase
& three phase dual converters
UNIT III DC TO DC CHOPPER: Voltage, current load commutated chopper – step-up
chopper and firing circuits – one, two and four quadrant chopper application to DC
driving control
UNIT IV INVERTERS: Series inverter – parallel inverter – current source inverter –
voltage source inverter – Modified McMurray, auto sequential inverter– PWM inverter –
UPS.
UNIT V AC CHOPPER, CYCLOCONVERTER & VOLTAGE CONTROLLER: Single
phase AC chopper, multistage sequence control – step up and step down cyclo-converter
– three-phase to single-phase and single phase to three-phase cycloconverter – triggering
circuit based on microcontroller – single-phase AC voltage controller with R, RL, RLE.

1. Power electronics: converters, applications, and design by Ned Mohan

2. Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices, and Applications by M.H. Rashid
3. Fundamentals of Power Electronics by Robert W Eriction
4. Electric Motor Drives: Modeling, Analysis, and Control by R Krishnan

Classification of Thyristor family. Working, of SCR, IGBT ,GTO,

MCT, DIAC and TRIAC Three phase half wave, full wave or bridge
rectifier and Six phase half wave rectifier. Effect of transformer
reactance. Single phase half wave and full wave controlled rectifiers
using SCR, UJT & phase shift circuits. Working of pulse transformer.
Principle of A.C. load control.
Need of SCR protections : Over voltage and over current protection.
Snubber circuit, freewheeling diode, Thermistor, heat sink. Turn off
(commutation) method and types-Natural commutation, Forced
commutation, Series resonance/ current commutation, Voltage
commutation. Auxiliary SCR for commutation. External pulse
commutation. Specifications of SCR: Voltage, current, Power,
temperature, dv/dt and di/dt
 Function and working of choppers Types of chopper circuits: A
type to E-type ,Jone’s chopper circuit, Morgan's chopper
Working principle of inverter Classification of inverter- phase and
3-phase inverters, Line commutated and forced commutated inverters
Series, Parallel and bridge inverter,Series and parallel inverter using
SCR,PWM method and PWM inverter, Single pulse width, Multiple
pulse width and Sinusoidal pulse width modulation.Operating principle
of cyclo converter. types of cyclo-converters : Single phase to single
phase cyclo converter, Single phase to bridge cyclo converter.
Speed control of D.C. Motor using armature voltage control. Speed
control of D.C. Motor using SCR chopper circuit. Speed control of
D.C. drive using PLL method. Speed control of universal motor.
Different types of speed control methods for induction motor such as
stator voltage control, frequency control, Power factor control method.
Heating control, resistance welding, static circuit breaker and time
delay circuits.
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Power Electronics Singh,M. D. K. Khanchandani, B. Tata Mc. Graw
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latest edition
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New Delhi latest edition
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house New Delhi latest edition
7. Electric drivesconcepts and applications Subramanyan, V. Tata
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