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THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY FOR APPLIED EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Course Outline
College: Technological Studies
Department: Electrical Engineering Technology
Program: Electrical Machines Technology

Course Title: Power Electronics Course No.: 52-260


Units: 3 units
Lecture Hours: 2 hours/week
Lab. Hours: 2 hours/week
Workshop Hours: 0

Pre-requisite: 70-110
Co-requisite: None
Language: English

Course Description:
This course describes the principle of power electronics, its switching nature, the
characteristics of different switching devices such as power diode, bipolar junction
transistor, and thyristor. It also contains the basic types of converter topologies such as ac-
dc rectifiers, dc-dc choppers, dc-ac inverters, and ac-ac voltage controllers. The study of
these converters includes; circuit topology, circuit waveforms, principle of operation,
performance parameters, methods of control, and applications.

Course Goals:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1- Identify the different types of power semiconductor switching devices.
2- Deal with different types of power electronics converters’ topologies.
3- Experience the characteristics, performance parameters, and applications of
different types of power electronics converters’ topologies.

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Course Contents:
Week
No.
TOPIC

1 Introduction to power electronics – Introduction of semiconductors – The PN


junction.
2 The power diode, Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT), Thyristors (SCR): Types and
characteristics – The ideal characteristics.
3-4 Uncontrolled Rectifier (AC-DC Converter) with resistive load; single/three phase
half/full-wave uncontrolled rectifier; circuit topology, operation, waveforms,
performance parameters, and applications.
5-6 Controlled Rectifier (AC-DC Converter) with resistive load; single/three phase
half/full-wave controlled rectifier; circuit topology, operation, waveforms,
performance parameters, and applications.
7 DC-DC Converters (Choppers) with resistive load; types, principle of operation,
waveforms, and methods of control.
8 Step-down (Buck) converter; operation, waveforms, performance parameters, and
applications.
9 Step-up (Boost) converter; operation, waveforms, performance parameters, and
applications.
10-11 AC-AC voltage controller; types, operation, waveforms, and applications.
12 DC-AC Converters (Inverters) with resistive load; principle of operation, types,
methods of control, and applications.
13-14 Single-phase half/full bridge square-wave inverter; circuit topology, operation,
waveforms, and performance parameters.
15 PWM inverter; waveforms, performance parameters, and applications.

Experiments:
Week Exp.
No. No.
TOPIC

1 1 The characteristics of power diode.


2 2 The characteristics of Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT).
3 3 The characteristics of Thyristor (SCR).
4 4 Single-phase half/full-wave uncontrolled rectifier.
5 5 Three-phase half/full-wave uncontrolled rectifier.
6 6 Single-phase half-wave controlled rectifier.
7 7 Single-phase full-wave controlled rectifier.
8 8 Three-phase half-wave controlled rectifier.
9 9 DC-DC step-down (Buck) converter.

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Week Exp.
No. No.
TOPIC

10 10 DC-DC step-up (Boost) converter.


11 11 Single-phase AC-AC voltage controller.
12 12 Single-phase half/full-bridge square-wave inverter.
13 13 Single-phase PWM inverter.
14 14 Revision of experiments.
15 15 Final laboratory test.

Instructor Guidelines:

Resources:
- Textbook: M. H. Rashid, “Power electronics: circuits, devices, and applications,”
Prentice- Hall International, Inc., 2nd edition, NJ, 1993.
- Laboratory Manuals: …
- Equipments: …

References:
- N. Mohan, T. Undeland and W. Robbins, “Power Electronics: Converters,
Applications and Design,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2nd edition 1995.
- Jai P. Agrawal, ”Power Electronic Systems: Theory and Design,” Prentice Hall,
2000. ISBN: 0-13-442880-3

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