EEE 483

Power Electronics

Dr. Muhammad Quamruzzaman

Professor
Dept. of EEE
CUET
 Syllabus
EEE 483 Power Electronics Credit: 3.0

Introduction to power electronics: Definition, Types of power electronics circuits.

Power semiconductor devices: SCR, Triac, Diac, GTO, MCT and IGBT.

Controlled Rectifiers: Principle, Classifications, Single and three phase semiconverter, full
converter, dual converter.

DC Choppers: Definition, Classifications, Step-down, Step-up chopper, Buck, Boost and

Buck-Boost regulators.

AC voltage controllers: Principle, Single phase controller with resistive and inductive
loads, three phase half wave and full wave controllers, Cycloconverters: single phase and
three phase.

DC/AC Inverters: Principle, single phase and three phase inverters with resistive and
inductive load, voltage control of single and three phase inverters.

Power supplies, Motor control and adjustable speed drives, Electronic timer, dielectric and
induction heating, resistance welding.
AC Voltage Controllers
EEE 483 Power Electronics
Dr. Muhammad Quamruzzaman
Introduction
An ac voltage controller is a converter that
controls the voltage, current, and average power
delivered to an ac load from an ac source.

Some applications:
Light dimmer circuits
Speed control of induction motors
Industrial heating
Electric welding
On load tap changing of transformer
 AC Voltage Controllers

AC Variable (RMS)
AC
AC
Input Voltage Vo fs Output
Voltage Vs fs Controller Voltage

 Employed to vary the RMS value of the alternating voltage applied to a

load circuit by introducing Thyristors between the load and a constant
voltage ac source.

 RMS value of the alternating voltage is controlled by integral cycle control

or controlling the triggering angle of the Thyristors
 AC Voltage Controllers

AC Variable (RMS)
AC
AC
Input Voltage Vo fs Output
Voltage Vs fs Controller Voltage

There are two control methods:

 Integral-cycle or on-off control
 Phase control
 Classification

AC voltage
controllers

On-Off or Phase
ICC control

Single phase Three phase

controllers controllers

Unidirectional Bidirectional Unidirectional Bidirectional

or or or or
Half wave control Full wave control Half wave control Full wave control
 Integral-Cycle or ON-OFF control

Switches are SCRs

Current can be either direction

Triac can be used.

Other controlled switches can

be used instead of SCR
ON-OFF control circuit
(Single phase full wave AC
voltage controller circuit)
 Integral-Cycle or ON-OFF control

SCRs cannot conduct

simultaneously

Vo = Vs when SCR is on

VT = 0 when SCR is on
VT = Vs when SCR is off.

IS(AVG)  Io(AVG)
ON-OFF control circuit
IT(AVG)  0 (Single phase full wave AC
voltage controller circuit)
Integral-Cycle or ON-OFF control

Thyristors turned ON for ‘n’

number of input cycles
during the time interval tON
.

Thyristors turned OFF for

‘m’ number of input cycles
during the time interval
tOFF

Here, n = 2
m=1
 Integral-Cycle or ON-OFF control
For a sine wave input supply voltage,
v s  V m sin ωt  2V s sin ωt
Where, Vs = RMS value of input ac supply
Vm

2
If the input ac supply is connected to load for ‘n’ number
of input cycles and disconnected for ‘m’ number of input
cycles, then
t ON  n  T, t OFF  m  T

where,
T =1/f = input cycle time period
f = input supply frequency.
tON = controller on time = n×T
tOFF = controller off time = m×T
TO = Output time period = (tON + tOFF)
= (nT + mT)
 Performance Parameters of AC Voltage
Controllers

• RMS Output (Load) Voltage

Vm n
VO ( RMS )   Vi ( RMS ) k  VS k
2 ( m  n)

• Duty Cycle

tON tON nT n
k   
TO tON  tOFF nT  mT (n  m)
 Performance Parameters of AC Voltage
Controllers
;
• RMS Load Current
V O RM S  V O R M S 
I O R M S   
Z RL

• Output AC (Load) Power

PO  IO2 RMS  RL

• Power Factor

n
PF  k 
mn
Performance Parameters of AC Voltage
Controllers

PF versus K Curve
 Performance Parameters of AC Voltage
Controllers
• The Average Current of Thyristor, IT(avg)

Waveform of Thyristor Current

k Im iT
I T ( Avg )  n
m

Im

0  2 3 t

,
• The RMS Current of Thyristor, IT(RMS)

Im
I T  RMS   k
2