Power Electronics

Power Electronics by Prof. Bhuvaneshwari

Books:

• ACE Study material of Power Electronics Drives 

• Made Easy Power System work book 

• Modern Power System Analysis by D.P Kothari and I J Nagrath

• Power Electronics and Motor Drives by Bimal K. Bose 

• Power Electronics: A First Course by Ned Mohan 

• POWER SYSTEM ANALYSIS by John Grainger (Author), William Stevenson Jr.

• Power Electronics: Devices, Circuits and Applications by Muhammad H. Rashid

• Schaum's Outline of Electrical Power Systems (Schaum's Outlines) by Syed A Nasar

  
  

Power Electronics Complete course:

WEEK1:

Lecture 1: Familiarization with Power Electronic Systems

Lecture 2: Overview of Basic Power Electronic Circuits from Layman’s Point of View

Lecture 3: Applications, Definitions, and Nature of Power Electronic Circuits

Lecture 4: Components of a Power Electronic System

Lecture 5: Analysis of Switched Networks

WEEK2:

Lecture 6: Review of engineering maths for power electronic circuit analysis

Lecture 7: Review of semiconductor physics

Lecture 8: P-N Junction

WEEK3:

Lecture 9 : Power Diodes

Lecture 10 : Thyristors

Lecture 11 : Losses in Power Electronic Circuits

WEEK4: RECTIFIER CAPACITOR FILTER

1. Motivation for rectifier capacitor filter
2. Circuit Operation
3. Designing the circuit
4. Simulation setup for NgSpice and gEDA schematic capture
5. Simulating the circuit
6. Practicals

WEEK5: PROTECTION and POWER FACTOR

1. Inrush current limiting - intro
2. Inrush current limiting - Resistor solution
3. Inrush current limiting - Thermistor solution
4. Inrush current limiting - Transformer solution
5. Inrush current limiting - Relay, contactor
6. Three phase rectifier capacitor filter
7. Power factor - motivation
8. Power factor - discussion
9. Power factor - sinusoidal
10. Power factor for rectifier cap filter
11. Passive power improvement circuit
12. Simulation - power factor improvement
    

WEEK6: DC-DC LINEAR

1. Linear regulators - intro
2. Shunt regulator
3. Example on shunt regulator
4. Non-ideality and solution
5. Applications of shunt regulator
6. Series regulator
7. Efficiency of series regulator
8. Negative and dual voltage regulators
9. Over current limiting circuits
10. Improvements to series regulator
11. Datasheet of few IC regulators
12. Common IC regulator circuits

WEEK7: DC-DC SWITCHED CONVERTERS

1. Switched mode DC-DC converter intro
2. Volt-sec and Amp-sec balance
3. Input-output relationship
4. Buck converter - operation and waveforms
5. Buck converter - component selection
6. Primary configurations
7. Boost converter
8. Simulating the primary converters

WEEK8: DC-DC FORWARD AND FLYBACK

1. Forward Converter

1. Core reset in forward converter
2. Simulating with lossy core reset
3. Simulating with lossless core reset
4. Flyback Converter
5. Simulating the flyback converter

WEEK9: Inductor and Transformer Magnetic design

1. Magnetics design intro
2. Magnetics Review
3. Permeance
4. Inductor value and energy storage
5. Inductor area product
6. Inductor design 
7. Inductor example
8. Transformer Design

WEEK10: Pushpull, Halfbridge and Fullbridge

1. Push-pull Converter
2. Flux walking in Push-pull
3. PWM Generation
4. Simulation of Pushpull Converter
5. Half-bridge Converter
6. Simulation of Halfbridge Converter
7. Full Bridge Converter
8. Simulation of a full-bridge converter
9. Area products and mfiles

WEEK11: BJT and MOSFET Drive Circuits

1. Intro for drive circuits
2. BJT base drive
3. BJT base drive example
4. Multi-stage base drive
5. Base drive with speed-up circuit
6. Base drive with isolation
7. MOSFET gate drive
8. MOSFET drive with isolation
9. Over-current protection
10. Snubber circuits

WEEK12: Close loop control

1. Intro for closed-loop control
2. Close looping dc-dc converters
3. Simulation of close loop control
4. Current control for battery charger application
5. Instability in current control and slope compensation
6. Slope compensated current control
7. Simulation of current control
8. Single-phase inverter with sinusoidal PWM

Study Materials:

• How to read power MOSFET datasheet in detail 

• Automotive Power Supply Design consideration 

• Fundamentals of MOSFETs 

• How will a buck-boost converter work with a brief explanation?

• How to select Inductor, Capacitors, Diodes, MOSFET ? 

• UVLO, Enable, Soft Start, Power Good in Buck Converter

• Gallium Nitride Transistors