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Home Page of EE 463 Power Electronics I
Fall Semester 2009
Section 01/02

Instructor: Ahmet M. Hava

Contact Info: see my webpage

Course Teaching Assistants: N. Onur Çetin

Lecture:

Section 01: Mon: 8:40-9:30 (DZ17), Wed: 8:40-10:30 (DZ13)

Section 02: Mon: 15:40-17:30 (DZ17), Wed: 12:40-13:30 (DZ13)

Labs: TBA!

Office Hours: TBA

IMPORTANT NOTICES/ANNOUNCMENTS

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WARNING!!!!!

Course prerequisite: EE361 AND EE212 are prerequisites for EE463. This means if you have not taken and passed EE361, you will not be able to take EE463. The student affairs system had a bug involving this prerequisite so some students who did not qualify for 463 could be registered. However this bug has been recently detected and now students are required to make the necessary correction (if you have not passed 361, please drop 463 IMMEDIATELY!).

If you took 463 last year and attended the labs (all of them) you need not attend the lab again. Your lab grade will be the same of last years. If you missed some experiments, you must do those and get graded for them. Otherwise, all students must do all the labs in order to qualify for a passing grade.

Download Ansoft-Simplorer SV7 from the following site: www.ansoft.com

Simplorer is the official PE programming software for this course. Get some experience with it before the tutorial (to be conducted immediately after the holiday).

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Course Description:

First of, a few things about Power Electronics(PE)... Follow the link to read a summary involving PE: THE FIELD OF POWER ELECTRONICS

Now, course description and some keywords: Multidiciplinary nature of power electronics. Power switches (diodes, thyristors, transistors, GTO,SCR,IGBT,IGCT,HVIGBT,MOSFET, MCT, ZTO, etc.) and their characteristics. Basics of power electronic conversion, power converter definitions. Diode rectifiers, single phase, half and full bridge rectifiers, multiphase rectifiers. Thyristor rectifiers. Commutation and overlap. Power factor, harmonics. Phase multiplying rectifiers and multiwinding transformers. Operation under line voltage unbalance. Protection. Fully controlled PWM rectifiers, PFC rectifiers. Design and application of rectifiers.

Prerequisite

Prerequisite: EE 212, EE361-2 or consent of the department
Knowledge of Basic Semiconductor Physics, Basic Electronics, and Basic Electromechanical Energy Conversion is assumed.
Knowledge of Simplorer, Matlab-Simulink, MathCad, or other numerical computing and computer simulation programs is a plus.

Syllabus

Outline

        Week 1: Introduction To Power Electronics (Chapter 1 Mohan)
        Week 2: General Principles (Chapter 1 and chapter 3 Mohan)
        Week 3: Semiconductors, Power Diodes (Chapter 2, 19,20 Mohan)
        Week 4: Semiconductors, Thyristors (Chapter 2, 19,23 Mohan)
        Week 5: Introduction to Rectifiers (Chapter 5,6 Mohan, 2,3 Lander)
        Week 6: Rectifiers (Chapter 5,6 of Mohan, Chapter 2,3 of Lander), Computer Simulations (Simplorer CD,Mohan Ch.4)
        Week 7: Rectifiers (Chapter 5,6 of the main text also chapter 2,3 of Lander)
        Week 8: Rectifiers (Chapter 5,6 of the main text also chapter 2,3 of Lander)
        Week 9: Rectifiers (Chapter 5,6 of the main text also chapter 2,3 of Lander)
Week 10: Rectifiers (Chapter 5,6 of the main text also chapter 2,3 of Lander)
        Week 11: Input/Output Harmonics and filtering (Chapter 7 of Lander and 5,6,16,17,18 of Mohan ) (handouts)
        Week 12: Precharge Circuits, Inrush Currents, Thermal Management and Design (Mohan Chapter 29)
        Week 13: Protection, gate driving, and other issues of rectifiers
        Week 14: Control of Power Electronics systems involving Rectifiers (HVDC, DC Motor Drives, etc.)

Grading

Tentatively scheduled:
        Midterm 1: 15%
        Midterm 2: 20%
        Final : 35%
        Labs: 20%
        Homeworks: 10%

        To Get A Passing Grade You Absolutely Must:
        Attend all labs and submit all lab reports
        Have at least 70% attendance
        Submit all the required homeworks

If you can not submit a specific homework assignment, or fulfill 70% attendance requirement, you have to come and talk to me.
You must have a very valid reason to be excused!

Textbooks

Power Electronics is a) a rapidly developing, b) multi-dimensional field of engineering.
As a result, there is no "one single book" that meets our course requirements. Therefore, we will need a mixture.
We will be following the two textbooks below very closely. Plus, I will be giving you handouts as much as possible.
Textbook 1 will do for EE463 and you will like it as it has many examples. Textbook 2 will teach you more practical engineering
details regarding the content of EE463.
This year textbook 2 will be the main textbook in EE464.

Basic Textbooks:

1) Cyril W. Lander, Power Electronics, McGraw-Hill, 1993, Third Edition.
2) N. Mohan, T. M. Undeland, W.P. Robbins, Power Electronics, John Wiley Publishing Co., 2003. (Media Enhanced Third Edition) Wiley International Edition

Additional books which may be of some help:

Basic Books:

P. T. Krein, Elements of Power Electronics, Oxford University Press, 1998.
J.G. Kassakian, M.F. Schlecht, G.C. Verghese, Principles of Power Electronics. addison Wesley, 1992.
R.W. Erickson and D. Maksimovic, Fundamentals of Power Electronics, Kluwer, 2001.

Book Specializing on Power Semiconductor Devices:

B. J. Baliga, Power Semiconductor Devices, PWM Publishing Co., 1996.

Longer list of supplementary power electronics books will be posted later.

Homeworks

There will be plenty of homework assignments and projects, some of which involve Computer Simulation of some Power Electronic Converters. This course will be highly interactive and will place emphasis on practical engineering aspects of power electronics. The implication is that you will work a lot on problems and designs involving real life power electronic systems. And this translates to a lot of effort to be spent from your side and my side.

Homework Style and Ethics:

You are encouraged to discuss the homeworks with your classmates or anybody else.

You are also encouraged to come and discuss it with me during the course office hours.
However, must not copy the solutions from somebody else!
At the stage that you prepare the solution paper for the assignment, you should write the solution as it is in your mind!

On assignments involving computer programming (simulation, analysis via matlab etc.), you are encouraged to discuss and write programs together, but you should not copy what you dont know or you are not able to do on your own! After learning to do the necessary computer work, write the code in your own way, obtain the results in your own way, and comment on them with your own mind.

Basically write what you know and demonstrate what you can do!
Naturally, the differences between you and co-workers will reflect on the paper and you will get credit for your achievement.
Otherwise, the assignment grade will not reflect your ability.
Furthermore, remember that it is absolutely unethical and absolutely not acceptable to copy from somebody's work!
There will be severe punishment for copying somebody's work!
Totally identical solutions by various students will result in team punishment!
Not only the person who copies from the other, but the person who allows the other person to copy will also be punished at the same degree of severity!

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