Engineering - Course - Power Electronic Circuits I

Introduction to power switches: diode, thyristor, triac, diac, GTO, BJT, MOSFET, IGBT, characteristics, modes of operation, selection of switches, firing circuit design and application, analysis and design of suitable circuits and subsystems for practical applications such as dimmer circuit and dc motor control circuit, calculation of switching losses, evaluation of THD and associated power losses. Rectifying circuits: single-phase and three-phase, uncontrolled, half-controlled and fully-controlled rectifiers for different types of passive loads, evaluation and demonstration of steady state voltages and currents, calculation of efficiency, PF and THD of such converters. Circuit analysis software such as PSIM, PROTEUS or MATLAB. Pre-req.: COME 221.