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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Control Electronics of Power Converters

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 430-4102/04
Abbreviation ŘEVM
Course title Control Electronics of Power Converters
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Applied Electronics
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Petr Chlebiš, CSc.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
General demands on power converter control units function.
Power converter control unit in term of EMC.
Driver units for tyristors and GTOs.
Driver units for bipolar transistors.
Driver units for unipolar transistors and IGBTs.

Control units for line commutated converters (rectifiers).
Control units for pulse converter.
Control units for voltage type inverters, analogue and digital control methods.
Control units for current type inverters, analogue and digital control methods.
Control units for load commutated inverters.
Indirect frequency converter controlling.
Direct frequency converter controlling.
Microprocessor control methods for power converters.


Exercises:
Basic analogue control circuit calculating.
Design of digital control circuits.
Draught of rectifier control unit part.
TEST no. 1 - Drivers and rectifier control units.
Design of pulse converter control units.
Design of inverter control unit.
TEST no. 2 - Pulse converter control units and inverter control units.


Laboratories:

Lab. task no. 1 - Drivers for bipolar and unipolar transistors.
Lab. task no. 2 - Analogue control units.
Lab. task no. 3 - Digital control methods.
Lab. task no. 4 - Microprocessor control units with using Freescale microprocessor.
Lab. task no. 5 - PWM of transistor inverter.


Projects:
Elaborating of results gained in laboratory exercises: Laboratory task no. 1 - 5.

Computer labs:
Design of chosen power converters control circuits.

Draught of chosen power converters control algorithms.
Software available in English version.

Literature

Heumann, K.: Basic Principles of Power Electronics. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York, 1986, ISBN 3-540-16138-4.
Rashid, M. H.: Power Electronics. Prentice-Hall International, Inc., 1993, ISBN 0-13-334483-5.
Horowitz, P., Hill, W.: The Art of Electronics. Cambridge University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-521-37095-7.
Kale, C.O.: Introduction to Passive, Linear, and Digital Electronics. Reston Publishing Company, 1985, ISBN 0-8359-3263-X.
Whitaker, J.C.: The Electronics Handbook. CRC Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8493-8345-5.
Webb, J.: Industrial Control Electronics. Merrill, Columbus, 1990, ISBN 0-675-20897-1.

Advised literature