Content :
- Power semiconductor devices
1. Power Diode2. V-I characteristic of power diode3. Significant of drift region
- SCR ( silicon controlled rectifier )
- Forward blocking mode
- Forward conducting mode
- Significance of gate
- Reverse blocking mode
- Significance of latching current
- Significance of holding current
- Definitions of holding current
- Switching characteristic of SCR ( or) Dynamic characteristic
- Triggering method of SCR
a. Forward voltage triggering methodb. Dv/ dt triggeringc. Light triggeringd. Thermal triggeringe. Gate triggering
- Commutation techniques
a. Natural commutationb. Forced commutation
- Classification of commutation techniques
a. Class A Commutation techniqueb. Class B Current commutationc. Class C Complementary commutation / impulsed. Class D Voltage commutation
- Firing circuit
- Gate turn on Voltage
- UJT ( Unijunction transistor )
1. UJT : Working as relaxation oscillator2. Synchronized UJT firing CKT
- Protection of Thyristors
1. Over Current protection 2. Over voltage protection3. Dv/dt protection4. Dia/dt protection5. Thermal protection6. Gate protectionSome special device
- GTO (Gate turn off Thyristor )
- ASCR ( Asymmetrical silicon controlled rectifier )
- RCT ( Reverse conducting Thyristors )
- TRIAC
- TRIAC firing CKT using a DIAC
- Power BJT
- Characteristic of power BJT
- Power MOSFET
- Ø HWR - One Pulse Converter
- RE load ( Charging Battery )
- 1-Ø FWR ( 2- pulse converter )
- 1-ø Half controlled rectifier
- Semi converter
- Harmonic analysis on AC side of converters
- Harmonic analysis on DC side of converters
- Performance of semi conductors
- Draw backs
- Three phase semi conductors
- Representation of converters
- Application
- Dual converters
1. Non-circulating current type2. Circulating current type dual converters
- Effect of source inductance
- Inductance voltage regulation
- INVERTERS
- Classification of inverters
1. Voltage source inverters
- a. Single phase half bridge inverters
- b. Two phase full bridge inverters
- c. Three phase VSI
2. Current source inverters3. Series inverters4. Parallel inverters
- Harmonic analysis
- Draw backs
- Rating of thyristors
- Current source inverters (CSI)
- Harmonic analysis
- Advantage of CSI
- Disadvantage
- Auto sequential commutation inverters (ASCI)
- Series inverters
- Resonant converters
- Voltage control of inverters
- Types
- Advantages
- Disadvantages
- Application
- Types of PWM techniques
- CHOPPERS
- Stepdown choppers
- RLE loads
- Duty cycle
- Step up choppers
- CHOPPERS WITH FILTERS
- Buck regulators
- Critical inductance
- Critical capacitance
- BOOST regulators
- BUCK regulators
- BUCK-BOOST regulators
- Classification
- 1. First quardrant chopper
- 2. Second quardrant choppers
- AC voltage controllers
- Application
- Drawbacks
- Cycloconverters
- AC drives
- Slip power recovery method
- Scherbius drive
- Application
- Features
- HVDC
- Types of HVDC
- SMPS