ENEL371-14S2 (C) Semester Two 2014

Power Electronics 1

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2014
End Date: Sunday, 16 November 2014
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2014
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 12 October 2014

Description

Single switch dc/dc converters. PWM, dc to ac converters, ac motor control. Controlled and uncontrolled rectifiers, brushed dc motor control.

This course covers:
• Recovery of trapped energy, choppers, PWM
• Buck (dc to dc) regulators
• Basic Magnetic Design
• Boost (dc to dc) regulators
• Recovery of trapped energy in transformers
• Forward converters
• Sinusoidal PWM
• Dc to ac converters
• Layout, EMC, snubbers
• Motor drives, control
• Brushless DC motors
• Single and three phase rectifiers and converters
• Harmonics

Learning Outcomes

  • At the end of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Deduce conduction patterns, and sketch voltage and current waveforms for a range of power electronic circuit.
  • Calculate relevant performance parameters for DC and AC sourced power electronic circuits
  • Calculate average and rms values, and Fourier series expansions of waveforms with a variety of shapes.
  • Design and build practical magnetic circuit-based components
  • Manage magnetic circuits to avoid saturation
  • Lay out circuits for efficiency and minimum EMC problems
  • Design and implement feedback control
  • Analyse motion control systems

Prerequisites

Restrictions

ENEL335

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Alan Wood

Lecturer

Keliang Zhou

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Final Exam 60%
Labs 15%
Project Inspection 10%
Project Report 15%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Mohan, Ned. , Undeland, Tore M., Robbins, William P; Power electronics : converters, applications, and design ; 3rd ed; John Wiley & Sons, 2003.

Recommended Reading

Hart, Daniel W; Introduction to power electronics ; Prentice Hall, 1997.

Mohan, Ned; Electric drives : an integrative approach ; MNPERE, 2000.

Rashid, M. H; Power electronics : circuits, devices, and applications ; 3rd ed; Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004.

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Course Outline

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $841.00

International fee $4,638.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Electrical and Computer Engineering .

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