University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

EE 452 Power Electronics

Fall 2016

Instructor Syed Abdul Rahman Kashif, PhD

Room No. Power Systems Lab, EED, UET Lahore
Office Hours Monday, Tuesday 12:00 to 1:00 PM (tentative)
Email abdulrahman@uet.edu.pk, twaseen786@gmail.com
Telephone 042-99029229 042-99029423 0345-4092528
TA Not Available
TA Office Hours Not Applicable
Course URL (if any) http://twaseen.com/PEL2013Session.html

Lab Instructor Ali Shafique

Room No. Room # 207 First Floor, EED, UET Lahore
Office Hours Wednesday 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Email alishafique@uet.edu.pk, alishafique3@gmail.com
Telephone +92-332-3300236
Course URL (if any) http://alishafique.com/ee100fall16.html

Course Basics
Credit Hours 4 (3+1)
Lecture(s) Number of Lectures(s) per Week 2 Duration 150 minutes (total)
Recitation (per week) Number of Lectures(s) Per Week 0 Duration N/A
Lab (per week) Number of Lectures(s) Per Week 1 Duration 3 hours

Course Distribution
Core N
Elective Y
th
Open for Student Category Electrical Engineering 7 Semester
Close for Student Category Students upto third year

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will cover the design and analysis of power electronic converters such as uncontrolled rectifiers, semi-controlled
rectifiers, fully controlled rectifiers, inverters, buck regulator, boost regulator, buck boost regulator, Cuk regulator (switch mode
power supplies), AC to AC controllers, cyclo-converters and PWM rectifiers. Characteristics of power switches such as thyristor,
power BJTs and MOSFETs will be discussed in detail.

COURSE PREREQUISITE(S)
• EE • Analog Electronics
• EE • Semiconductor devices

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Department of Electrical Engineering,
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. Study the basic principles of power electronics converters, power switches, and control of power electronics converters
Understanding the basic design principles of uncontrolled, semi-controlled and fully controlled rectifiers and their analysis under
2.
different loading conditions.
Understanding the working principles and design of DC-DC Converter/Switch Mode Power Supplies (Buck, Boost, Buck-Boost,
3.
Cuk and other derivatives)
4. Understanding the working principles and design of isolated DC-DC Converter (Flyback, forward, resonant and other derivatives)
5. Understanding the DC to AC conversion (single phase and three phase) and different PWM techniques for operation control
6. Understanding the operation of Cyclo-converter, gate driver circuits, thermal design and simulation tools for power electronics
7. Design of practical converters/circuits based on specific needs
8. Lab project for hand on experience of converters

LEARNING OUTCOME
1 Understanding the need, use, analysis, design and limitations of Power Electronics converters.
Appreciate the linkage of Power Electronics with electromagnetics, circuits, devices, electronics, feedback, control, power
2
systems, machines and emerging application areas like renewables, smart grids and high frequency applications

Course Learning Outcomes

The students should be able to:
Understand basic principles of power electronics converters, power switches, and control of power electronics
CLO1:
converters
Understand the basic design principles of uncontrolled, semi-controlled and fully controlled rectifiers and their analysis
CLO2:
under different loading conditions.
Understanding the working principles and design of DC-DC Converter/Switch Mode Power Supplies (Buck, Boost, Buck-
CLO3:
Boost, Cuk and other derivatives)
Understanding the working principles and design of isolated DC-DC Converter (Flyback, forward, resonant and other
CLO4:
derivatives)
CLO5: Understand the DC to AC conversion (single phase and three phase) and different PWM techniques for operation control
CLO6: Understand the operation of Cyclo-converter, gate driver circuits, thermal design, static switches
CLO7: Use a simulation tool for power electronic converters
CLO8: Apply knowledge to develop a lab project
CLO9: Perform experiments for hand on experience of converter circuits
Relation to EE Program Outcomes
EE-452 CLOs Related PLOs Levels of Learning Teaching Methods CLO Attainment checked in
CLO1 PLO1 High Instruction, Quiz, Assignments Midterm, Final
CLO2 PLO2 High Instruction, Quiz, Assignments Midterm, Final
CLO3 PLO2 Medium Instruction, Quiz, Assignments Midterm, Final
CLO4 PLO3 High Instruction, Quiz, Assignments Midterm, Final
CLO5 PLO2 Low Instruction, Quiz, Assignments Midterm, Final
CLO6 PLO1 Medium Instruction, Quiz, Assignments Midterm, Final
CLO7 PLO5 Medium Instructions, Labs Assignment
CLO8 PLO11 High Instructions, Labs Lab Evaluation
CLO9 PLO4 High Instructions, Labs Lab Evaluation

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Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
UET, Lahore
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Grading Breakup and Policy

Assignment(s): 5%
Home Work: 5%
Quiz(s): 20%
Class Participation: N/A
Attendance: At least 75% to appear in exam.
Midterm Examination: 01 30%
Final Examination: Comprehensive 40%
Labs: 40% of Lab
Labs Design Assignments: 20% of Lab
Project: 40% of Lab

Examination Detail
Yes/No: Yes
Combine/Separate: Combined
Midterm
Duration: 1 hrs 30 min
Exam
Preferred Date: During Mid-week
Exam Specifications: Closed book, closed notes, calculators
Yes/No: Yes
Combine/Separate: Combined
Final Exam Duration: 02 hrs
Preferred Date: During Final-week
Exam Specifications: Closed book, closed notes, calculators

COURSE OVERVIEW
Related CLOs &
Week Topics Recommended Readings
Additional Remarks
Introduction to Power Electronics
Ericson: Chapter 1
1 Characteristics of different power electronics switches. Basics of controlled CLO1
Rashid: Chapter 1
switches and gate control circuits.
Diode Rectifier
Power diode, Single phase and three phase rectifiers with inductive loads
2 Rashid: Chapter 3 CLO2
and freewheeling diode. Performance analysis, filter design and effect of
inductance on rectifier operation.
Thyristor
3 Basics of thyristor, working principle, gate characteristics, firing circuits, Varmah: Chapter 3 CLO2
snubber circuits, TRIAC, DIAC and GTOs, thyristor as a switch
Controlled Rectifiers
Single phase and three phase controlled rectifiers with inductive loads, dual
4&5 Rashid: Chapter 10 CLO2
converters, and power factor improvement using PWM, series and parallel
connections, twelve pulse converters.
Linear Regulator
Bogart: Chapter 13.1 to
Series and shunt regulator, design of regulator using 7805, 7812 and LM317
6 13.3 CLO6
Power Switches
Rashid: Chapter 7
MOSFET, IGBT
DC to DC converter (Non isolated)
Rashid: Chapter 5
7&8 Introduction, Principle, Generation of duty cycle, Design, simulation and CLO1, CLO3
Ericson: Chapter 2,3,5
performance analysis of buck, boost, buck boost and Cuk converters
DC to DC converter (Isolated)
9 & 10 Ericson: Chapter 6 CLO1, CLO4
Push-pull converter topology, fly back topologies, forward converters, half

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UET, Lahore
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bridge and full bridge converters, resonant converter. Design of a switch
mode power supply, inductor and transformer
Single phase Inverters
Introduction, principle of operation, performance parameters, and single Varmah: Chapter 9
11 & 12 phase bridge Inverters, quasi square wave inverter, sinusoidal PWM inverter Rashid: Chapter 6 CLO1, CLO5
and Fourier analysis, Cascaded Inverters, output filter design, gate driver Notes
circuit for high voltage operation
Three phase Inverters
Three phase inverters with 180 and 120 degree conduction, sinusoidal PWM Varmah: Chapter 9
13 & 14 inverter, regular sampling, single PWM, multiple PWM, modified sinusoidal Rashid: Chapter 6 CLO1, CLO5
PWM, symmetric and asymmetric modulation, simulation and design of Notes
PWM based inverters, Introduction to space vectors PWM.
AC Voltage controllers
Principle of ON-OFF control, principle of phase control, single phase bi-
15 Varmah: Chapter 7 CLO6
directional controller with resistive and inductive load, basic concept of
cyclo converters.
Thermal Design Considerations Rashid: Chapter 18
16 CLO6
Heat dissipation, calculation of thermal resistance, design of heat sink Bogart: 16.3

Textbook(s)/Supplementary Readings
Textbook:
• Power Electronics Circuits, Devices, and Applications by Muhammad H. Rashid, 4rth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2015
• Power Electronics by K.R. Varmah and Chikku Abraham, Elsevier, 2014
• Fundamental of Power Electronics by Robert W. Ericson, Second Edition, 2005
Supplementary Reading:
• Electronics Devices and Circuits by Theodore F. Bogart, Sixth Edition, 2013

LAB OVERVIEW
Related CLOs &
Week Experiments Recommended Readings
Additional Remarks
1 Single Phase Uncontrolled Rectifier Rashid: Chapter 3 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
2 Half Wave Rectifier using R and R-C Triggering Rashid: Chapter 7,10 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
3 Full Wave Rectifier Using R-Triggering and R-C Triggering Rashid: Chapter 7,10 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
4 R-C Triggering TRIAC Circuit Rashid: Chapter 7 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
5 A Variable Voltage Regulator Using Op-Amp CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
6 Pulse Width Modulation using TL494 TL494 Datasheet CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
7 Buck Converter Rashid: Chapter 5 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
8 Boost Converter Rashid: Chapter 5 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
9 Buck-Boost Converter Rashid: Chapter 5 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
10 Optically isolated Gate driver for N-Channel MOSFET CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
11 Low Voltage Half Bridge Inverter using MOSFETs Rashid: Chapter 6 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
Single Phase Full Bridge Inverter with Fixed and Variable Pulse Width
12 Rashid: Chapter 6 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
Modulation Square Wave
13 Single Phase Full Bridge Inverter with Sine Pulse Width Modulation Rashid: Chapter 6 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
14 Three Phase Inverter with 180 Degree Conduction Rashid: Chapter 6 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
15 Three Phase Inverter with 120 Degree Conduction Rashid: Chapter 6 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9
16 Three Phase Inverter with Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation Rashid: Chapter 6 CLO7, CLO8, CLO9

© Syed Abdul Rahman Kashif, PhD

Assistant Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
UET, Lahore