NPTEL : NOC:Fundamental of Power Electronics (Electrical Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Vivek Agarwal


Lecture 1 - Familiarization with Power Electronic Systems

Lecture 2 - Overview of Basic Power Electronic Circuits from Laymans Point of View

Lecture 3 - Applications, Definitions, and Nature of Power Electronic Circuits

Lecture 4 - Components of a Power Electronic System

Lecture 5 - Analysis of Switched Networks

Lecture 6 - Review of engineering maths for power electronic circuit analysis

Lecture 7 - Review of semiconductor physics

Lecture 8 - P-N Junction

Lecture 9 - Power Diodes

Lecture 10 - Thyristors

Lecture 11 - Motivation for rectifier capacitor filter

Lecture 12 - Circuit Operation

Lecture 13 - Designing the circuit

Lecture 14 - Simulation setup for NgSpice and gEDA schematic capture

Lecture 15 - Simulating the circuit

Lecture 16 - Practicals

Lecture 17 - Inrush current limiting - Intro

Lecture 18 - Inrush current limiting - Resistor solution

Lecture 19 - Inrush current limiting - Thermistor solution

Lecture 20 - Inrush current limiting - Transformer solution

Lecture 21 - Inrush current limiting - MOSFET solution

Lecture 22 - Inrush current limiting - Relay, contactor

Lecture 23 - Three phase rectifier capacitor filter

Lecture 24 - Simulation - 3 phase rectifier capacitor filter

Lecture 25 - Power factor - Motivation

Lecture 26 - Power factor - Discussion

Lecture 27 - Power factor - Sinusoidal

Lecture 28 - Power factor for rectifier cap filter

Lecture 29 - Passive power improvement circuit

Lecture 30 - Simulation - power factor improvement

Lecture 31 - Linear regulators - Intro

Lecture 32 - Shunt regulator

Lecture 33 - Example on shunt regulator

Lecture 34 - Non-ideality and solution

Lecture 35 - Applications of shunt regulator

Lecture 36 - Series regulator

Lecture 37 - Efficiency of series

Lecture 38 - Negative and dual voltage regulators

Lecture 39 - Over current limiting circuits

Lecture 40 - Improvements to series regulator

Lecture 41 - Regulator performance parameters

Lecture 42 - Datasheet of few IC regulators

Lecture 43 - Common IC regulator circuits

Lecture 44 - Practicals 1

Lecture 45 - Switched mode DC-DC converter intro

Lecture 46 - Volt-sec and Amp-sec balance

Lecture 47 - Input-output relationship

Lecture 48 - Buck converter - operation and waveforms

Lecture 49 - Buck converter - component selection

Lecture 50 - Primary configurations

Lecture 51 - Boost converter

Lecture 52 - Buck-Boost converter

Lecture 53 - Simulating the primary converters

Lecture 54 - Forward converter

Lecture 55 - Core reset in forward converter

Lecture 56 - Simulating with lossy core reset

Lecture 57 - Simulating with lossless core reset

Lecture 58 - Flyback converter

Lecture 59 - Simulating the flyback converter

Lecture 60 - Octave mfile for design

Lecture 61 - Magnetics design intro

Lecture 62 - Magnetics review

Lecture 63 - Permeance

Lecture 64 - Inductor value and energy storage

Lecture 65 - Inductor area product

Lecture 66 - Inductor design

Lecture 67 - Inductor example

Lecture 68 - Transformer design

Lecture 69 - Transformer example

Lecture 70 - Forward converter design mfile

Lecture 71 - Pushpull converter

Lecture 72 - Flux walking in pushpull

Lecture 73 - PWM generation

Lecture 74 - Simulation of pushpull converter

Lecture 75 - Half bridge converter

Lecture 76 - Simulation of halfbridge converter

Lecture 77 - Full bridge converter

Lecture 78 - Simulation of fullbridge converter

Lecture 79 - Area products and mfiles

Lecture 80 - Intro for drive circuits

Lecture 81 - BJT base drive

Lecture 82 - BJT base drive example

Lecture 83 - Multi-stage base drive

Lecture 84 - Base drive with speed-up circuit

Lecture 85 - Base drive with isolation

Lecture 86 - MOSFET gate drive

Lecture 87 - MOSFET drive with isolation

Lecture 88 - Over-current protection

Lecture 89 - Snubber circuits

Lecture 90 - Intro for close loop control

Lecture 91 - Close looping dc-dc converters

Lecture 92 - Simulation of close loop control

Lecture 93 - Current control for battery charger application

Lecture 94 - Instability in current control and slope compensation

Lecture 95 - Slope compensated current control

Lecture 96 - Simulation of current control

Lecture 97 - Single phase inverter with sinusoidal pwm

Lecture 98 - Simulation of sinusoidal PWM