Power Electronics 1

Lecturer:

Jiří Pavelka

Tutor:

Jan Bauer, Jiří Pavelka

Supervisor:

Department of Electric Drives and Traction

Synopsis:

Power semiconductor devices, their serial and parallel connection, voltage and current dimensioning, point-to-point and bridge rectifiers, reversible rectifiers, control pulse generators, AC/AC and DC/DC converters, voltage source inverters, current source inverters, resonance inverters, frequency converters, matrix converters, principles of electromagnetic compatibility, cooperation of power semiconductor converters with DC and AC motors, survey of power semiconductor converters application in engineering practice

Requirements:

Credit conditions: attendance by the study laws, activity in course of the exercise solution, passing of the control test, proper worked and evaluated records of the measurement

Syllabus of lectures:

1. History, basic power electronics conceptions and definitions, power semiconductor devices characteristics

2. One-pulse rectifier, time waveforms, control and load characteristics, commutation

3. Point-to-point rectifiers, time waveforms, control and load characteristics

4. Bridge rectifiers, time waveforms, control and load characteristics

5. Block diagram of control pulse generators, reversible rectifiers and their control

6. Serial and parallel connection of power semiconductor devices, voltage and current dimensioning

7. Principles of electromagnetic compatibility

8. AC/AC converters, working principle, properties

9. DC/DC converters, working principle, properties

10. Voltage source inverters, current source inverters, resonance inverters, control methods

11. Indirect and direct frequency converters, matrix converters

12. Cooperation of power semiconductor converters with DC motors, operating modes, control methods

13. Cooperation of power semiconductor converters with AC motors, operating modes, control methods

14. Survey of power semiconductor converters application in engineering practice

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Instructions to the labs, security directions, laboratory rules, laboratory identification, work with oscilloscope

2. Denomination of power semiconductor devices, work with catalogues

3. One-pulse rectifier, various types of the load

4. Controlled point-to-point rectifier

5. Controlled one-phase bridge rectifier

6. Controlled three-phase bridge rectifier

7. Controlled reversible rectifier

8. Serial and parallel connection of the power semiconductor devices

9. Control test, examples

10. Backward influence of the controlled rectifier on the feeding network

11. One-phase AC/AC converter

12. DC/DC converter

13. One-phase voltage source inverter

14. Credit

Study Objective:

Study materials:

1. Ned Mohan, William P. Robbins, Tore M. Undeland:

WIE Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design, Media Enhanced , 3rd Edition,

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, March 2003

2. Bimal K. Bose:

Power Electronics and Variable Frequency Drives : Technology and Applications

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. -IEEE Press, New York, September 1996

3. Andrzej M. Trzynadlowski:

Introduction to Modern Power Electronics

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, May 1998

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri	roomT2:E1-105 Pavelka J. 10:00–10:45 ODD WEEK (lecture parallel1) Dejvice haly Laborator
Thu
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Elektrotechnika, energetika a management - Aplikovaná elektrotechnika_162957 (compulsory course in the program)
• Elektrotechnika, energetika a management - Elektrotechnika a management_163134 (compulsory course in the program)
• Elektrotechnika, energetika a management, před rozřazením do oborů (compulsory course in the program)