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ADVANCED POWER ELECTRONICS
EMÜ-523
6
3 hours/week
Professor Sedat SÜNTER
Spring
Elective
Power electronics, Advanced Mathematics I and II.
Semiconductor power devices; Diode, SCR, BJT, Power MOSFET, IGBT,
GTO, MCT, SIT, IGCT. Bidirectional Switches, Four-quadrant rectifiers,
High power factor rectifier circuits: Single phase boost rectifier, PWM
rectifier, Resonant converters: Zero voltage switching (ZVS), Zero current
switching (ZCS), Slip energy recovery drives, Cycloconverters, Matrix
Converters, Electromagnetic interference (EMI) and noise reduction.
The aim of this module is to equip graduate students with advanced power
electronics subjects.
One written midterm exam (50%) and one written final exam (50%)
Turkish/English
POWER ELECTRONICS: Converters, Applications and Design (2ed) by
Mohan, Undeland and Robbins, Wiley publishing. Power Electronic Control
of AC Motors, J.M.D. Murphy, F.G. Turnbull, Pergamon Press, 1989.
DC CHOPPERS
EMÜ-525
6
3 hours/week
Professor Sedat SÜNTER
Spring
Elective
None / Power Electronics
Introduction to Switch mode power converters; Buck converter: Analysis
and design; Boost converter: Analysis and design; Buck-boost converter:
Analysis and design; Isolated version of switch mode power converters;
Feedback and control; Thyristor DC choppers; PWM DC choppers; Onequadrant, Two-quadrant and Four-quadrant DC choppers; Applications of
DC motor drives.
The aim of this module is to provide knowledge to graduate students about
DC choppers in detail.
One midterm written exam (50%) and one written final exam (50%).
Turkish/English
POWER ELECTRONICS: Converters, Applications and Design (2ed) by
Mohan, Undeland and Robbins, Wiley publishing. The power thyristor and its
applications by David Finney, McGRAW-HILL publishing, 1980.
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INVERTERS
EMÜ-526
6
3 hours/week
Professor Sedat SÜNTER
Fall
Elective
None / Power Electronics
Principle of Inverters, Single-phase bridge voltage-source inverters: Basic
circuit operation principle and analysis, Unipolar and Bipolar single phase
inverters, Voltage and frequency control techniques, Pulse Width
Modulation Technique (PWM): Sinusoidal PWM, Square-wave PWM,
Space vector PWM, Modulation index, harmonic analysis, DC side and AC
side harmonics, Harmonic spectrum; Three-phase bridge Six-step inverters:
Analysis, harmonics, voltage and frequency controls; Thyristor inverters: Mc
Murray Bedford Inverter, Mc Murray Inverter, Modified Mc Murray
Inverter; Current-controlled PWM Inverters; Voltage utilization in PWM
inverters, Minimum Dwell time; Current-Source Inverters.
The aim of this module is to provide knowledge to graduate students about
Inverters in detail.
One midterm written exam (50%) and one written final exam (50%).
Turkish/English
POWER ELECTRONICS: Converters, Applications and Design (2ed) by
Mohan, Undeland and Robbins, Wiley publishing. Power Electronic Control
of AC Motors, J.M.D. Murphy, F.G. Turnbull, Pergamon Press, 1989.
VECTOR CONTROL OF AC DRIVES
EMÜ-526
6
3 hours/week
Professor Sedat SÜNTER
Fall
Elective
None / Power Electronics, Electrical Machines II
Introduction and basic definitions; AC machine models for drive
applications; Dynamic equations for induction motors; Steady-state
operation as special case of dynamic equations; Synchronous-frame concept,
Motor equations in synchronous frame; Dynamic equations for vector
control; d-q model of induction motor,; Derivation of Vector control
equations; Implementation of vector control; Vector control strategies:
Direct vector control, Indirect vector control; Control loop bandwidths;
Comparison of vector control strategies.
The aim of this module is to furnish students with modern control techniques
for ac motors.
One midterm written exam (50%) and one written final exam (50%).
Turkish/English
Control of Electrical Drives, W. Leonhard, Springer-Verlag, 1990. Vector
control and dynamic of ac drives, D.W Novotny, T.A. Lipo, Oxford Science
Publications, 2000.