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1 EE 653 Power Electronics – I
EE 654 Power Electronics – II
EE 753 High Power Converters and Utility Applicat High Power Electronic Converters: High-Power Semiconductor Devices, MultiPulse Converters, AShukla
EE 656 Electrical Machine Analysis & Control
EE 657 Electric Drives I
Content Faculty Term
Review of line commutated converters, inverters, voltage control & Power factor improvement. SAnand Fall
power Devices: BJT, MOSFET, IGBT & GTOs – operating characteristics and gate drive
requirements and circuits. Switched-mode rectifier: various Power circuit configurations &
waveshaping techniques. Synchronous link rectifiers: Power circuit configurations, control
techniques, application of these converters in load compensation, series compensators,
multi-level converters. inverters: voltage source inverters:- single-phase & Six step inverters,
voltage control & PWM strategies, and implementation aspects, Modification of power circuit for
Four quadrant operation. Current source inverters: single-phase and three-phase power circuit
configuration and analysis. Load commutated inverters: the principle of operation, modification
of power circuit configuration for low-frequency operation. Phase Controllers.
DC- DC, Converters – the principle of operation of buck, boost, buck-boost, Cuk, flyback, MCC Spring
forward, push-pull, half-bridge, full-bridge & isolated Cuk Converters, Input & output filter
design, multi-output operation of isolated converters, MMF equations. Design of transformers
and inductors; Modelling of the above converters using state averaging techniques. Resonant
Inverters: DC link Inverters, modified circuit topologies for DC link voltage clamping, voltage
control – PWM techniques (sigma, sigma-delta modulation) quasi-resonant inverters. DC-DC
converters – series resonant and parallel resonant, application of zero voltage and zero current
switchings for DC-DC converters (buck & boost); Inverters for Induction Heating and UPS.
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Multilevel Cascaded H-Bridge Converters, Multilevel Diode-Clamped Inverter, Modular
Multilevel Converter, Other Multilevel Voltage Source Converters, Current Source Inverters,
Pulse width modulation techniques (SPWM, hysteresis, SVM), Harmonic Reduction Techniques.
Transmission Applications: Reactive Compensation for Power Flow Control, Shunt
Compensation, Series Compensation, Phase Angle Regulators, Combined Series/Shunt
Compensators, Control and Harmonic Interactions, Enhancing Stability, Large Scale Storage
with Power Electronic Interface. Distribution Applications: Power and Voltage Quality, Load
Balancing using passive elements, Instantaneous PQ theory, The stationary frame (??-frame),
and synchronous frame (dq-frame) representations of three-phase VSC systems, Open-loop
and Closed-loop control of Power Converters, Distribution Shunt Compensation, Distribution
Series Compensation, Unified Power Quality Conditioner, Static Transfer Switches and
Solid-State Circuit Breakers, Hybrid Circuit Breakers, Fault Current Limiters, Active Filters.
Principle of unified machine theory, generalized torque equation. Performance evaluation of DC BGF Fall
machine and speed control. Three-phase induction motor-transformation methods, (stationary,
rotor, and synchronous frames) and corresponding equivalent circuits. Three Phase
synchronous motor: representation, Park transformation. Drives, various Control techniques;
Concept of Space vector, field-oriented control, and direct torque control of IM. Permanent
magnet synchronous motors- machine model (d-q) and control methods Switched reluctance
motor drive and various power circuit configurations and control.
Methods of DC motor control, non-regenerative controlled rectifiers, fully controlled converters, KChaterjee Fall
field control, switching systems for DC motors, chopper regulators, aspects of analysis,
performance, and stability of variable speed dc drives; Induction motor control systems, ac
regulators and static switches, control of effective rotor resistance, recovery of slip energy,
variable frequency control of ac motors, current source inverter fed Induction motor drive, forced
commutated inverter fed drives, self-controlled synchronous motor drives, and traction drives.
Analysis, performance, and stability of synchronous and asynchronous drives. solar and
battery-powered drives.
EE658 Power Systems Dynamics and Control Basic Concepts of dynamical systems and stability. Modeling of power system components for AKulkarni Fall
stability studies: generators, transmission lines, excitation, and prime mover controllers, flexible
AC transmission (FACTS) controllers; Analysis of single machine and multi-machine systems.
Small signal angle instability (low-frequency oscillations): damping and synchronizing torque
analysis, eigenvalue analysis; Mitigation using power system stabilizers and supplementary
modulation control of FACTS devices. Small signal angle instability (sub-synchronous frequency
oscillations): analysis and counter-measures. Transient Instability: Analysis using digital
simulation and energy function method. Transient stability controllers. Introduction to voltage
Instability. Analysis of voltage Instability.
EE 660 Application of Power Electronics to Power Steady-state and dynamic problems in AC systems. Flexible AC transmission systems AShukla Fall
(FACTS). Principles of series and shunt compensation. Description of static var compensators
(SVC), Thyristor Controlled series compensators (TCSC), Static phase shifters (SPS), Static
condenser (STATCON), Static synchronous series compensator (SSSC), and Unified power
flow controller (UPFC). Modeling and Analysis of FACTS controllers. Control strategies to
improve system stability; Power Quality problems in distribution systems, harmonics, harmonics
creating loads, modeling, harmonic propagation, Series and parallel resonances, harmonic
power flow, Mitigation of harmonics, filters, passive filters, Active filters, shunt, series hybrid
filters, voltage sags & swells, voltage flicker. Mitigation of power quality problems using power
electronic conditioners. IEEE standards.
EE686 HVDC Transmission Need for HVDC, AC vs. DC: Comparative advantages. Converters and their characteristics. AKulkarni Fall
Control of the converters (CC and CEA); Parallel and series operation of converters.
Equivalence of a dc system in an ac system. Per unit systems. AC-DC load flow analysis.
EE 687 Switchgear Principles Switchgear installation and criteria for selection. Circuit breaker ratings, principles of a-c circuit H. Bahirat Fall
breaking. RRRV and recovery voltage and their control. Current chopping. Switching of
capacitive currents. Kilometric faults.Resistance switching. D-C current interruption. Principles
of fuse gear. Salient features and characteristics of different arc interrupting media — air, oil,
air-blast, SF6, and vacuum. The electric arc and circuit -breaker. Establishing an arc, discharge
characteristic of arc, long arc, short arc, energy transfer between electric field and the arc
column, energy transfer out of the column. Theories of arc interruption – restriking voltage and
energy? balance theories and their applications.
EE713 Circuit Simulation in Power Electronics Formulation of network equations: Nodal, Mesh, Modified Nodal and Sparse Tableau Analysis, KC, MCC, VA, MBP -
Sparse matrix techniques, solution of nonlinear equations by Newton_Raphson method,
Multistep methods: Convergence and stability, special classes of multistep methods, Adaptation
of multi-step methods to the solution of electrical networks, general-purpose circuit simulators,
Introduction to machine modelling: induction, DC, and synchronous machines, Simulation of
three-phase converters: fundamentals of switching behaviour, space vector representation,
modulation methods. Interaction between power electronic converters and rotating machines.
Power electronic converters in power distribution systems, DC to DC converters.
EE768 Electric Distribution Systems Modelling and analysis of three phase networks; Protection of distribution networks; AKowli Fall
Engineering practices: grounding, transformer connections and SWER; Medium and long term
load forecasting; Distribution network planning; Reliability assessment and benchmarking;
Distributed generation (DG): impacts on network operations, planning and protection; State of
art in distribution: battery storage deployment, accounting for electric vehicles, distribution
automation, active/reconfigurable networks and smart grids
EE770 Design and Evaluation of Photovoltaic PoweModule I: Modeling of Photovoltaic Power Plants NShiradkar Spring
DC Side modeling (cells, modules, arrays, generation of module file),
AC side modeling (inverters, transformers, grid connection)
Algorithms for modeling solar irradiance, module temperature, shading, soiling.
Structural aspects, contemporary issues, financial aspects

Module II: Monitoring, Performance Assessment and Degradation

Real time monitoring and fault detection in large PV power plants
Performance Assessment of large PV Power Plants
Performance Degradation and Reliability of PV Power Plants

Module III: Smart, Fast Response Utility Scale Power Plants

Challenges in case of high PV penetration due to traditional approach to utility scale PV power pl
Controllers and techniques for developing smart utility scale power plants
Economics of smart utility scale power plants
EE772 Smart Grids Background and Introduction: smart grid architecture, Advanced Metering Infrastructure, - -
Communication technologies, Cost-benefit analysis and Business Model of smart grids – case
study Data Analytics, Forecasting techniques, Demand Response – mathematical formulation
and solutions large-scale renewable energy integration at distribution level Smart microgrids,
Optimal sizing of Energy storage devices, Electric vehicles Cyber security, Smart grid
standards, Smart grid regulations, smart Cities, Smart grids and power markets Indian scenario,
Pilot projects, and Road map with case studies Smart grid technology for Transmission system.
EE791 Power Electronic Converters for Renewable Introduction to renewable sources: world energy scenario, Wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, VAgarwal Spring
availability and power extraction. Introduction to solar energy: Photovoltaic effect, basics of
power generation, P-V & I-V characteristics, the effect of insolation, temperature, diurnal
variation, shading; Modules, connections, ratings; Power extraction (MPP), tracking and MPPT
schemes; standalone systems, grid interface, storage, AC-DC loads. Power converters for
solar: Micro converter, DC-DC buck/boost/buck-boost /flyback /forward/cuk, bidirectional
converters; Inverters: 1ph, 3ph inverters with & w/o x??mer, Heric, H6, Multilevel Neutral point
clamp, Modular multilevel, CSI; Control schemes: unipolar, bipolar, PLL and synchronization,
power balancing/bypass, Parallel power processing; Grid connection issues: leakage current,
Islanding, harmonics, active/reactive power feeding, unbalance. Intro to wind energy: P-V, I-V
characteristic, wind power system: turbine-generator-inverter, mechanical control, ratings;
Power extraction (MPP) and MPPT schemes. Generators for wind: DC generator with DC to AC
converters; Induction generator with & w/o converter; Synchronous generator with back to back
controlled/uncontrolled converter; Doubly fed induction generator with rotor side converter
topologies; permanent magnet-based generators. Battery: Types, charging-discharging.
Introduction to AC and DC microgrids.
EE6102 High-Frequency Magnetics for Power ElectFundamentals of magnetics – Faradays’, Lenz’s and Ampere’s laws, magnetic circuits and SChakraborthy
electrical equivalent circuits, multi-winding magnetics Winding ac resistance – skin and
proximity effects, Dowell’s equation, conduction losses with PWM waveforms, resistance matrix,
Litz wire – basic principle and design, air-gap fringing and its effects on Rac Leakage
inductance – Analytical estimation of leakage inductance, interleaving to reduce leakage and ac
resistance in transformers and its limitations Winding capacitances – Inter and intra-winding
capacitances – genesis and their impacts on circuit operation, techniques to reduce them,
analytical estimation Core loss – origin, Steinmetz equation and improvements, core loss
measurement techniques, choice of core material Magnetics equivalent circuit modeling and
parameter extraction using simulation (FEA) and measurements (impedance analyzer)
Miscalleneous and advanced topics – planar magnetics, magnetic integration, matrix
transformers, thermal management