INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE

NAME OF DEPTT. /CENTRE:

Department of Electrical Engineering

1. Subject Code: EE-540

Course Title: Advanced Power Electronics

2. Contact Hours:

L: 3

T: 0

3. Examination Duration (Hrs.):

4. Relative Weight:
5. Credits: 4

CWS: 15

Theory: 3
PRS: 25

MTE: 20

6. Semester: Autumn

P: 2
Practical: 0
ETE: 40

PRE: 0

7. Subject Area: PCC

8. Pre-requisite: Digital Logic Circuits.

9. Objective:
The objective of the course is to impart knowledge of three phase converters, power factor
improvement techniques used in converters, harmonic reduction techniques used in inverters,
Buck and Boost dc to dc converters, three phase ac regulator, Cyclo-converters and Multilevel inverters and their applications.
10. Details of Course:
S.No.
Contents
1.
Review of single- phase converters, effect of load and source
Impedances; input and output performance parameters.

Contact Hours
5

2.

Three- phase converters, effect of load and source impedances;

dual converter, twelve- step converter, multi-pulse converters,
transformer utilization; Multi - pulse converters using delta/
zigzag/ Polygon transformers, analysis.

3.

Power factor improvement techniques- Controlled Freewheeling,

sequence control of converters; PWM converter Single pulse
modulation, multiple pulse modulation, Selective harmonic
elimination, sinusoidal pulse width Modulation, commutation
technique.

4.

Voltage and current commutated choppers, design of commutating

elements; DC-DC converters- buck converter, boost converter,
Cuk converter.

5.

Review of Single-phase ac regulator; Three-phase ac regulators,

operation with resistive load.

S.No.
Contents
6.
Single-phase and three-phase Cyclo-converters; Introduction to
Matrix converters.

Contact Hours
5

7.

Review of three-phase voltage source inverters, voltage and

frequency control.

8.

Harmonic reduction techniques, PWM inverters, Space Vector

Modulation.

9.

Multi-level inverters, advantages, configurations: Diode clamped,

flying capacitor and cascade multi-level inverters, applications.

10.

Current source inverters, commutation circuits, transient voltage

suppressing techniques.

Total

42

11. Suggested Books:

S. No.

Name of Authors /Books / Publishers

Year of
Publication/
Reprint
2008

1.

Dubey G. K., Doradla S. R., Joshi A. and Sinha R. M.

K.,Thyristorised Power Controllers, New Age International
Private Limited.

2.

Mohan N., Underland T.M. and Robbins W.P., Power Electronics

Converters, Applications and Design, 3rd Ed., Wiley India.

2008

3.

Bose B. K., "Power Electronics and Variable Frequency Drives",

IEEE Press, Standard Publisher Distributors.

2001

4.

Lander C. W., Power Electronics, 3rd Ed., McGraw-Hill

International Book Company.

2007

5.

Rashid M., Power Electronics- Circuits, Devices and

Applications, 3rd Ed., Pearson Education.

2008