BITS PILANI- K.K.

BIRLA GOA CAMPUS

SEMESTER – II, 2023-2024
Course Handout
Date: 17.01.2024

In addition to part-I (General Handout for all courses appended to the time table) this portion
gives further specific details regarding the course.

Course No. : EEE F342/INSTR F342

Course Title : Power Electronics
Instructor-in-Charge : Sudarshan Swain
Instructor (Lecture) : Ramesh Vasan
Instructors for (Lab) : Narayan Suresh Manjarekar; R. Gopika; Anagha Rajendran K P;
Rishikesh Girish Datar; Suraj S; Neeraj Kumar Bhaskar
Lab Staff : Prakash Lamani, Ramesh Bhattu

1. Course Description: The course covers the following topics:

Introduction to power electronics & identifying their applications; Introduction to switching
circuits; Switch realization using semiconductor devices; Study of DC to DC converters,
uncontrolled & phase-controlled rectifiers, square wave and PWM controlled inverters,
phase-controlled AC to AC converters & cyclo-converters and resonant converters; and
Ancillary issues such as gate drive circuits and protection circuits.

2. Scope, objective and outcome of the course:

The scope of the course covers the study of the aspects mentioned above. Its objectives are as
follows:
• To explain to students how different electronic devices act as switches and how their
working is influenced by passive elements such as resistor, inductor and capacitor.
• To present them the analysis & design of different types of power converters operating in
steady state.
• To enable them to design a few gate driver & protection circuits
• To provide students an opportunity to gain hands-on/simulation experience on the
following through lab experiments – a. Performing steady state analysis of a few of the
converters, b. Generating control signals for these converters and c. Performing
measurements in isolated high voltage (HV) setups.
The outcomes of this course are that, after undertaking it, the students will be able to explain
how different power electronic switches work in the presence of various passive elements,
perform the steady state analysis of a few power converters, devise circuits for control signal
generation as well as for gate drive & protection and also perform measurements in HV
setups.

3. Prerequisites: To get a good understanding of this course, the students should know the
basics of Electrical Sciences, Signals & Systems and Electrical Machines.

4. Text Book: N. Mohan, T. M. Undeland, and W. P. Robbins, Power Electronics: Converters,

Applications and Design, John Wiley & Sons Inc. 2012, third edition.
5. Reference Books:
1. Muhammad H. Rashid, Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices, and Applications, Pearson,
Third Edition, 2004.
2. L.Umanand, Power Electronics: Essentials & Applications, Wiley India, 2009, First edition.
3. Robert.W. Erickson and Dragan Maksimovic, Fundamentals of Power Electronics, Springer,
2001, Second Edition.

6. Course Plan
Lecture Topic Coverage Covered from
Introduction, non-sinusoidal waveforms
in steady state, Fourier analysis, line
Power electronic T: 1.1 – 1.7, 3.1 -
01 - 04 current distortion, power and power
systems 3.2.5.1, 5.5
factor, three phase systems, inductor and
capacitor response.
Overview, Power Diodes, Bipolar Junction
Transistor, Power MOSFETs, Thyristors
Power and Gate Turn-Off Thyristors & Insulated T: 2.1 - 2.12
05 - 06 semiconductor Gate Bipolar Transistors; Desired
switches characteristics in controllable switches.
Realization of switches using
R3 : 4.1 - 4.4
semiconductor devices
Uncontrolled rectifier configurations:
T: 5.1 – 5.3.2, 5.6
07 - 10 single phase and 3 phase rectifiers,
commutation overlaps. - 5.6.2
AC to DC converters Phase controlled rectifier configurations:
(Rectifiers) single phase and 3 phase rectifiers,
T: 6.1 – 6.4.4,
11 - 15 commutation overlaps, inversion in phase
R1: 5.3, 5.8
controlled converters; Single phase and
three phase semi converters
Steady state analysis and design of Buck,
T: 7.1 – 7.6,
16 - 20 Boost, Buck-Boost converters, Cuk
DC to DC converters R1: 9.7.1 - 9.7.4
converter
21 Isolated converter: Forward converter T: 10.4
Single-phase and three-phase inverters, T: 8.1 - 8.5,
voltage control of inverters, blanking R1:10.1 - 10.7,
DC to AC converters
22 - 29 time and its effects, current source 10.11, 11.2.3 -
(Inverters)
inverters, series loaded and parallel 11.2.4,
loaded series resonant inverters R2: 6.6 -6.7
ON-OFF control, phase control, single
R1: 6.1 to 6.7,
30 - 34 AC to AC converters phase & three phase ac to ac controllers,
6.10
cyclo-converters
Introduction to Basic resonant topologies, ZCS and ZVS T: 9.1 - 9.3, 9.5,
35 - 37 R1: 11.6, 11.7
resonant converters resonant converters
38 Snubber circuits for different devices. T: 27.1 to 27.8
Driving circuits & Base drivers for Power BJTs; gating
39 - 40 protection circuits circuits for thyristors; driving circuits for T: 28.1 – 28.6
insulated gate devices.
7. Laboratory Components
i) Introduction to isolated and high voltage measurement: Uncontrolled bridge rectifier
and controlled half-wave rectifier.
ii) Study of single-phase semi-controlled and fully controlled rectifier.
iii) Study of single-phase AC/AC converters.
iv) Study of step-down converter.
v) Study of boost converter.
vi) Study of forward converter.

8. Evaluation Scheme:
Weightage Evaluation
Evaluation Component Duration Date and Time
(%) type
Midsemester
90 min 25 16/03/24, (Saturday 4:00 CB
Examination
PM - 5:30 PM)
Theory Quizzes (1 Best To be
out of 2 Quizzes) 12 Will be announced later OB
announced

Assignment To be 08
Will be announced later OB
announced
Comprehensive
180 min 30 13/05/24 (FN) CB
Examination
Laboratory Reports - 12 - OB
To be OB
Laboratory Quiz 05 Will be announced later
announced
Laboratory
To be
Comprehensive 08 Will be announced later CB
announced
Examination

CB: Closed Book

OB: Open Text Book and/or handwritten class notes (in hard-copy format) only.

9. Make up policy:
• Make up will be granted only on genuine grounds, subject to the discretion of IC.
• For Theory quizzes one best of two quizzes will be considered.
• No MAKE-UP will be granted for Theory Quizzes. No MAKE-UP will be granted for the
assignment.

10. Chamber Consultation Hour: Will be announced in the lecture hour.

11. Notices: Notices regarding this course will be displayed on Moodle course webpage.
https://quantaaws.bits-goa.ac.in/course/view.php?id=2086