Back close
Admissions

Course Detail

Course Name Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Technologies
Course Code 18PR601
Program M. Tech. in Power & Energy Engineering(Smart Grids & Electric Vehicles)
Semester One
Year Taught 2018

Syllabus

Course Syllabus

Introduction to converters for renewable energy systems.

DC-DC converters: Buck, boost, buck-boost

Ćuk converters: operation and wave-forms in CCM and DCM. Forward, fly-back and push-pull converter circuits, half bridge, full bridge converters.

Resonant DC-DC converters: operating principle, waveform.

Converter control: PWM, closed loop control, feed forward and current mode control.

Driver circuits: uni-polar, bipolar and isolated drives. Simulation of DC-DC converters with close loop control.

Inverters: Overview, three phase converters, rectifier and inverter modes of operation for RL load.

Inverter Control: PWM inverter modulation strategies, uni-polar and bipolar switching scheme, sine wave PWM, space vector modulation, multi-level inverter – basic topology and waveform, improvement in harmonics. Converters in standalone power systems, Grid connected inverters. Simulation of inverter with different modulation strategies.

Dynamic characteristics of power semiconductor switches: MOSFET, IGBT – switching trajectory and losses.

Snubbers: turn-off and turn-on snubbers.

Magnetic design: inductor and transformer design.

Simulation: Snubber implementation in converter circuits. Laboratory Experiments in above modules

Text Books / References

  • Ned Mohan, Tore M. Undeland and William P. Robbins, “Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design”, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2007
  • L. Umanand, “Power Electronics: Essentials and Applications”, Wiley India, 2009.
  • Erickson, Maksimovic, and Dragan “Fundamentals of Power Electronics”, Kluwer academic publishers, 2001.

Resources

‘Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Technologies’ is a course offered in the M. Tech. in Power & Energy Engineering program at School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus.

DISCLAIMER: The appearance of external links on this web site does not constitute endorsement by the School of Biotechnology/Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham or the information, products or services contained therein. For other than authorized activities, the Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham does not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. These links are provided consistent with the stated purpose of this web site.

Admissions Apply Now