Power Converters

Course title: Power Converters

Code: 3ФЕИТ02З012

Number of credits (ECTS): 6

Weekly number of classes: 3+1+1+0

Prerequisite for enrollment of the subject: Taken course: Fundamentals of Electric circuits

Course Goals (acquired competencies): The objective of this course is to give to students fundamental knowledge about power converters, and how they work. Students will be also introduced with their application and techniques of computer modelling in order to study their performance and characteristics. With this course students will be competent to determine the characteristics of power converters and and perform full analysis of them, as well as be able to model and simulate their performance.

Total available number of classes: 180

Course Syllabus: Introduction and classification of power converters. Characteristics of semiconductor devices applied in power converters. Single phase uncontrolled rectifiers. Single phase full-controlled rectifiers. Three phase uncontrolled rectifiers. Three phase full-controlled rectifiers. Complex topologies of rectifiers. Current commutation in rectifiers. Power factor and efficiency in rectifiers. Inverters. Reversible power converters. Frequency converters. AC voltage converters. DC converters (choppers).

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