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EX-502 Power Electronics Notes

5 notes for Power Electronics, unit by unit.

Unit 1 · Short notes Advantages and application of power electronic devices; Power diode, power transistor, GTO, Triac, Diac, Power MOSFET, IGBT, LASCR, Fast recovery diode, Schottky diode, MCTs; SCR operation, characteristics and commutation techniques Advantages and applications of power electronic devices · Characteristics, symbols and applications of power diodes · Characteristics, symbols and applications of power transistors · Characteristics, symbols and applications of GTOs · Characteristics, symbols and applications of Triacs · Characteristics, symbols and applications of Diacs
Unit 2 · Short notes Operation and analysis of rectifier circuits Single‑phase half‑wave uncontrolled rectifier with resistive load · Single‑phase full‑wave uncontrolled rectifier with resistive load · Three‑phase uncontrolled rectifier with resistive load · Single‑phase half‑wave controlled rectifier with resistive load · Single‑phase full‑wave controlled rectifier with resistive load · Three‑phase controlled rectifier with resistive load
Unit 3 · Short notes Inverter topologies and control Series and parallel inverter configurations · Voltage‑source and current‑source inverter principles · Single‑phase bridge inverter · Three‑phase bridge inverter · Self‑commutated inverters · McMurray and MC‑Murray‑Beddford inverter topologies
Unit 4 · Short notes Chopper circuits and control strategies Principle of operation of choppers · Various control strategies for choppers · Step‑up (boost) chopper configuration · Step‑down (buck) chopper configuration · Step‑up/step‑down (buck‑boost) chopper configuration · Chopper types A, B, C, D, and E
Unit 5 · Short notes Cycloconverters, AC voltage controllers and SMVRs Single‑phase midpoint and bridge cycloconverter configurations · Three‑phase cycloconverter configuration and operation principles · AC voltage controllers using SCRs and TRIACs for single‑phase full‑wave control with R and RL loads · Estimation of RMS load voltage and RMS load current for AC voltage controllers · Input power factor calculation for AC voltage controllers · Three‑phase AC voltage controller (conceptual analysis)

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