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10ec73 Power Electronics Vtu Syllabus

This document provides the syllabus for the Power Electronics course offered at VTU. The course is divided into 8 units over 52 lecture hours. Unit 1 introduces power electronics applications and components. Unit 2 covers power transistors like BJTs, MOSFETs, and IGBTs. Unit 3 discusses thyristors and their operation. Unit 4 covers controlled rectifiers and different converter types. Later units cover thyristor turn-off methods, AC voltage controllers, DC choppers, and inverters. The course aims to teach fundamental power electronics concepts and components.

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10ec73 Power Electronics Vtu Syllabus

This document provides the syllabus for the Power Electronics course offered at VTU. The course is divided into 8 units over 52 lecture hours. Unit 1 introduces power electronics applications and components. Unit 2 covers power transistors like BJTs, MOSFETs, and IGBTs. Unit 3 discusses thyristors and their operation. Unit 4 covers controlled rectifiers and different converter types. Later units cover thyristor turn-off methods, AC voltage controllers, DC choppers, and inverters. The course aims to teach fundamental power electronics concepts and components.

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10EC73 POWER ELECTRONICS VTU Syllabus

POWER
ELECTRONICS
IA
Subject Code : 10EC73 Marks : 25
Exam
No. of Lecture Hrs/Week : 04 Hours : 03
Exam
Total no. of Lecture Hrs. : 52 Marks : 100

PART A
UNIT - 1
Introduction, Applications of power electronics, Power semiconductor
devices, Control characteristics, Types of power electronics circuits,
Peripheral effects. 6 Hours
UNIT - 2
POWER TRANSISTOR: Power BJTs, Switching characteristics,
Switching limits, Base derive control, Power MOSFETs, Switching
characteristics, Gate drive, IGBTs, Isolation of gate and base drives.
6 Hours
UNIT - 3
INTRODUCTION TO THYRISTORS: Principle of operation
statesanode-cathode characteristics, Two transistor model. Turn-
on Methods, Dynamic Turn-on and turn-off characteristics, Gate
characteristics, Gate trigger circuits, di / dt and dv / dt protection,
Thyristor firing circuits.
7 Hours
UNIT - 4
CONTROLLED RECTIFIERS: Introduction, Principles of phase
controlled converter operation, 1 fully controlled converters, Duel
converters, 1 semi converters (all converters with R & RL load).
7 Hours
PART B
UNIT - 5
Thyristor turn off methods, natural and forced commutation, self
commutation, class A and class B types, Complementary commutation,
auxiliary commutation, external pulse commutation, AC line
commutation, numerical problems. 7 Hours
UNIT - 6
AC VOLTAGE CONTROLLERS: Introduction, Principles of on and
off control, Principles of phase control, Single phase controllers with
restive loads and Inductive loads, numerical problems. 6 Hours

UNIT - 7
DC CHOPPERS: Introduction, Principles of step down and step up
choppers, Step down chopper with RL loads, Chopper classification,
Switch mode regulators buck, boost and buck boost regu lators. 6
Hours
UNIT - 8
INVERTORS: Introduction, Principles of operation, Performance
parameters, 1 bridge inverter, voltage control of 1 invertors, current
source invertors, Variable DC link inverter.
7 Hours
TEXT BOOKS:
1.Power Electronics - M. H. Rashid 3rd edition, PHI / Pearson publisher
2004.
2.Power Electronics - M. D. Singh and Kanchandani K.B. TMH
publisher, 2nd Ed. 2007.
REFERENCE BOOKS:
1.Power Electronics, Essentials and Applications, L Umanand, John
Wiley India Pvt. Ltd, 2009.
2.Power Electronics , Daniel W. Hart, McGraw Hill, 2010.
3.Power Electronics , V Nattarasu and R.S. Anandamurhty,
Pearson/Sanguine Pub. 2006

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