EE569 SPECIAL TOPICS IN POWER ELECTRONICS
| Course Code: | 5670569 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Electrical and Electronics Engineering |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. AHMET MASUM HAVA |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Understanding of advanced power electronics issues on switches, topologies, switching patterns, control methods, and converter design.
Power semiconductor switches, their types, structures, ratings, important parameters, static and dynamic characteristics will be comprehended.
Power converter topologies and switching methods for high performance power conversion systems are learned. Their control structures and implementations are investigated.
Course Content
Modern power semiconductors characteristics, trends. Power integrated circuits. AC-to DC converters; unity power factor converters. DC- to DC converters; switch mode power converters, resonant converters, DC-to AC converters; configurations, soft switching, resonant types, pulse width modulation techniques. A review of selected applications.
Course Learning Outcomes
Student, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
- Evaluate the performance of power semiconductors, select their ratings and driving methods.
- Analyze the behavior of and investigate the performance of any power converter topology by means of analysis, simulations, modelling etc.