EEE6002 Power Electronic Conversion (Synchronous e-learning)

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Power Semiconductor Devices

Introduction to design and analysis of power electronic systems; High power density design; High power efficiency design; Modular design.
Power semiconductor devices; Bipolar and unipolar silicon power device characteristics; Diodes, thyristors, power MOSFETs, IGBTs, Wide-band-gap power devices.
Power Electronic Passive and Magnetic Devices

Magnetics in power electronics; Losses in magnetic cores; Design of inductors and transformers based on Area Product method; Skin effects; interleaved windings;
Passive components; Capacitors; Thermal management; Heat sinks; Drivers and controllers; Power device protection; Snubbers; Safe operating areas.
Conversion to DC Power

AC to DC rectification; Single-phase and 3-phase uncontrolled and controlled rectifiers; High pulse number rectifiers; Total harmonic distortion and ripple factor.
DC to DC Conversion; Switching Pole; Buck, boost and buck-boost topologies; Continuous and discontinuous conduction; Synchronous Rectification; Two and four quadrant DC choppers.
Conversion to AC Power

DC to AC inversion; Pulse-width modulation; Space vector modulation; Single-phase and 3-phase inverters; voltage-source and current-source inverters.
AC to AC converters without DC-Link; Matrix converters; Practical implementation issues in such Converters.
Power Converters for Energy Supply

Applications in flexible AC transmission and HVDC transmission; Power converters for solar PV and wind turbines;
Multi-level converters for high voltage applications; 3-level inverters; Diode-clamped and neutral-point-clamped; Cascaded H-bridge
Power Converters for Energy Demand

Bidirectional power flow converters; PWM inverter-rectifiers; H-bridges; Power factor correction/Active Harmonic Filters; Special Circuits: Z-source inverters.
Soft switching and Resonant converters to reduce losses; Zero-voltage switching; Zero-current switching; Synchronous Rectification.