VTU Power Electronics Notes

I want to get the notes/syllabus for the VTU Power Electronics subject as the exams are near and I have to prepare well for the same so can you please help me

[Kiran Chandar]

Hey below I have given you the syllabus for the VTU Power Electronics subject you can have a look

10EC73 POWER ELECTRONICS VTU Syllabus POWER ELECTRONICS


Subject Code : 10EC73 IA Marks : 25

No. of Lecture Hrs/Week : 04 Exam Hours : 03

Total no. of Lecture Hrs. : 52 Exam 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 BJT’s, Switching characteristics, Switching limits, Base derive control, Power MOSFET’s, Switching characteristics, Gate drive, IGBT’s, 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, 1φ fully controlled converters, Duel converters, 1 φ 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, 1φ bridge inverter, voltage control of 1φ 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.