SRI CHANDRASEKHARENDRA SARASWATHI

VISWA MAHAVIDYALAYA UNIVERSITY

(University Established under section 3 of UGC Act 1956)
Enathur, Kanchipuram - 631561

CURRICULUM FOR
CO-DIPLOMA IN POWER ELECTRONICS
Going with III Year, B.E (Electronics & Communication Engineering)
(For the III year students & Effective for batch 2009 onwards)

DEPARTMENT OF
ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
 CREDIT SYSTEM FOR
CO-DIPLOMA IN POWER ELECTRONICS

The Co-Diploma programme in "Power Electronics" provides specialization that will be

a value addition to the B.E. programmes and is aimed at spreading employment
opportunities.
The course is of one year (two semester) duration and runs concurrently with the third
year. The course will run 2 days in a week in the evenings (6 PM to 8 PM) alongside the
part time classes.

Duration of the programme:

A student is normally expected to complete CO-DIPLOMA in a year but in any case not
more than two years from the time of admission.

Assessment:

The break-up of assessment and examination marks for theory subjects is as per the
regular main B.E. III year course. Currently, it is:-

INTERNAL ASSESSMENT (60 marks)

First Assessment (Test) : 20 Marks
Second Assessment (Test) : 20 Marks
Assignments & Seminar : 20 Marks

EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT (40 marks)

End semester Examination : 40 Marks

The break-up of the assessment and examination marks for practical is as follows,

INTERNAL ASSESSMENT (60 marks)

Continuous Assessment (Test) : 30 Marks
Mini project/ Design (Test) : 15 Marks
Maintenance of record book : 15 Marks

EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT (40 marks)

End semester Examination : 40 Marks
Attendance requirements:
To be eligible to appear for the examination in a particular course, a student must put in
a minimum of 80% of attendance in the course. However, if the attendance is 70% or
above but less than 80% in any course, the authorities can permit the student to appear
for the examination in the course on payment of the prescribed condonation fee.
A student who withdraws from or does not meet the minimum attendance requirement
in course must re-register for and repeat the course.

Passing and declaration of examination results

All assessments of all the courses on the absolute mark basis will be considered and
pass by the results passing board in accordance with the rules of the university.
Thereafter, the controller of examinations shall convert the marks for each course to the
corresponding letter grade as follows.
 90 to 100 marks - Grade ‘S’
 80 to 89 marks - Grade ‘A’
 70 to 79 marks - Grade ‘B’
 60 to 69 marks - Grade ‘C’
 55 to 59 marks - Grade ‘D’
 50 to 54 marks - Grade ‘E’
 less than 50 marks - Grade ‘F’
 Insufficient attendance - Grade ‘I’
 Withdrawn from the course - Grade ‘W’
A student who obtains less than 50 marks out of 100 in the subject or is absent for the
examination will be awarded Grade ‘F’.
A student who earns a grade of S, A, B, C, D or E for a course is declared to have
successfully completed that course and earned the credits for that course. Such a course
cannot be repeated by the student.
A student who obtains letter grade F in a course has to reappear for the examination in
that course.
A student who obtains letter grade I or W in a course has to re-register for and repeat
the course.
The following grade points are associated with each letter grade for calculating the
grade point average,
S – 10; A-9; B-8; C-7; D-6; E-5; F-0
Course with grades I and W are not considered for calculation of grade point average or
cumulative grade point average. F Grade will be considered for computing GPA and
CGPA.
A student can apply for re-totaling of one or more of his examination answer papers
within a week from the date of issue of grade sheet to the student on payment of the
prescribed fee per paper. The application must be made to the controller of
examinations with the recommendation of the head of the department.
After results are declared, grade cards will be issued to the students. The grade card
will contain the list of courses registered during the year/semester, the grades scored
and the grade point average (GPA) for the year/semester.
GPA is sum of the products of the number of credits of a course with the grade point
scored in that course, taken over all the courses for the Year/Semester, divided by the
sum of the number of credits for all courses taken in that year/semester. CGPA is
similarly calculated considering all the courses taken from the time of admission.
After successful completion of the programme, the co-diploma will be awarded with
the following classification based on CGPA,
 For First Class with Distinction the student must, pass all the courses in the first
attempt and obtain a CGPA of 8.25 or above.
 For First Class the student must obtain a CGPA of 6.5 or above.
 For Second Class the student must clear all the subjects with in one and half
years from the date of admission.
 COURSE CONTENT AND SCHEME OF EXAMINATION
CO-DIPLOMA IN POWER ELECTRONICS
(For the III year students and Effective for batch 2009 onwards)
Going with III year B.E.(ECE)

List of COURSES

SEMESTER – I
S.NO SUB. CODE L T P C IA E TM DE
SUBJECT

POWER ELECTRONICS DEVICES AND BASIC 2 1 - 3 60 40 100

1. EDPE1BT111 3Hrs
CIRCUITS
CONVERTERS AND INVERTERS CIRCUIT
EDPE1BT112 2 1 - 3 60 40 100 3Hrs
2. DESIGN

POWER ELECTRONICS CIRCUITS &

EDPE1BP111 - - 2 2 60 40 100 3Hrs
3. SIMULATION LABORATORY

TOTAL CREDITS: 08

SEMESTER – II

S.NO SUB. CODE L T P C IA E TM DE

SUBJECT

2 1 - 3 60 40 100
1. EDPE2BT111 INDUSTRIAL DRIVES AND CONTROL 3Hrs
APPLICATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC AND
EDPE2BT112 2 1 - 3 60 40 100 3Hrs
2. OTHER ADVANCED INSTRUMENTS

POWER ELECTRONICS AND DRIVES

EDPE2BP111 - - 2 2 60 40 100 3Hrs
3. LABORATORY

TOTAL CREDITS: 08

TOTAL CREDITS (Semesters I & II) = 16 UNITS

L – LECTURE IA – INTERNAL ASSESSMENT

T – TUTORIAL E -- EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT

P – PRACTICAL TM – TOTAL MARKS

C – CREDITS DE–DURATION OF EXAMINATION

 Department of Electronics and Communication
Course: CO-DIPLOMA IN POWER ELECTRONICS Branch: ECE
Semester: I Sub. Code: EDPE1BT111 Credit: 3
(For the III year students and Effective for batch 2009 onwards) Going with III year B.E.(ECE)

Subject: POWER ELECTRONICS DEVICES AND BASIC CIRCUITS

Aim: Application of Electronics knowledge in industry for rectification of polyphase
supply voltage and voltage regulation, for control of motor speed and for thermal
heating.

Objectives:
 To study about power electronic circuits for voltage and current control and protection.
 To learn the switching characteristics of transistors, SCRs. And IGBTs- Series and
parallel operation of SCRs, Programmable triggering methods for SCR &IGBT.
 To learn regarding controlled rectification of AC supplies.

POWER ELECTRONICS DEVICES AND TRIGGERING TECHNIQUES

Characteristics of power devices – Review of SCR, DIAC, TRIAC: Power MOSFETs and
IGBTs – Principle of voltage controlled devices, construction, types, static and switching
characteristics – Steady state and dynamic models of MOSFET and IGBTs; Basics of
GTO, MCT, FCT. Turn on circuits for SCR – triggering with single pulse and train of
pulses – synchronizing with supply – triggering with microprocessor – forced
commutation – different techniques – series and parallel operation of SCRs.

CONTROLLED RECTIFIERS
Continuous and discontinuous modes of single phase half wave and full wave rectifiers
– half controlled configurations – RL circuit with electromotive force for continuous and
discontinuous operation. Effect of transformer leakage reactance – operating domains of
three phase full converters and semi converters.

TEXT BOOKS :
1. Muhamed H.Rashid : Power Electronics Circuits, Devices and Applications, 3 rd Edn.
2004 PHI.
2. Singh and Kanchandani : Power Electronics, TMH, 1998.

REFERENCES :
1. Sen : Power Electronics, TMH, 1987.
2. Dubey : Thyristorised power controllers, Wiley Eastern 1986.
3. Vithayathil : Power Electronics – Principles and applications McGraw-Hill, 1995.
4. A.C.BOSE : Power Electronics& AC drives, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1994.
 Department of Electronics and Communication
Course: CO-DIPLOMA IN POWER ELECTRONICS Branch: ECE
Semester: I Sub. Code: EDPE1BT112 Credit: 3
(For the III year students and Effective for batch 2009 onwards) Going with III year B.E. (ECE)

Subject: CONVERTERS AND INVERTERS CIRCUIT DESIGN

Objectives: The study of converters and inverters.

DC-DC SWITCH MODE CONVERTERS

DC-DC converter systems – control of DC-DC converters, Buck converters –Continuous
and discontinuous modes – Boost converters – continuous and discontinuous modes –
Buck boost converters – continuous and discontinuous and discontinuous modes. Cuck
converters – continuous and discontinuous models – DC-DC converter comparison;
ZVS and ZCS resonant converters.

INVERTERS
Characteristics – output voltage and waveform control – bridge inverters – single phase
and three phase versions – MOSFET, IGBT inverters analysis and design; Current
source inverters – Concepts of multilevel inverters.

REGULATED POWER SUPPLIES

Feedback regulator-load and line regulation-foldback current limiting-constant current
supplies-voltage doublers and quadruplers-regulated high voltage supplies.

TEXT BOOKS :
3. Muhamed H.Rashid : Power Electronics Circuits, Devices and Applications, 3 rd Edn.
2004 PHI.
4. Singh and Kanchandani : Power Electronics, TMH, 1998.

REFERENCES :
5. Sen : Power Electronics, TMH, 1987.
6. Dubey : Thyristorised power controllers, Wiley Eastern 1986.
7. Vithayathil : Power Electronics – Principles and applications McGraw-Hill, 1995.
8. A.C.BOSE : Power Electronics& AC drives, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1994.
 Department of Electronics and Communication
Course: CO-DIPLOMA IN POWER ELECTRONICS Branch: ECE
Semester: I Sub. Code: EDPE1BP111 Credit: 2
(For the III year students and Effective for batch 2009 onwards) Going with III year B.E. (ECE)

Subject: POWER ELECTRONICS CIRCUITS & SIMULATION

LABORATORY
LIST OF EXPERIMENTS:

A. Circuit Testing

1. PWM based DC power control using MOSFET.

2. PWM based Voltage regulator.

3. SCR firing angle control.

B.Simulation

4. Modeling of simple PN Junction diode.

5. Modeling of Silicon Controlled Rectifier.

6. Modeling of MOSFET / IGBT / BJT

4. Simulation of Single phase Semi converter

a) R Load. b) RL load. c) RLE (Motor) Load

5. Simulation of Single phase fully controlled converter.

a) R Load. b) RL load. c) RLE (Motor) Load

6. Simulation of Single phase Dual converter.

7. Simulation of Three phase fully controlled converter.

8. Simulation of Single phase full bridge Inverter

9. Simulation of Three phase full bridge inverter.

a) 180 degree mode operation b) 120 degree mode operation

10. Simulation of PWM inverters

a) Sinusoidal PWM b) Square PWM

 Department of Electronics and Communication
Course: CO-DIPLOMA IN POWER ELECTRONICS Branch: ECE
Semester: II Sub. Code: EDPE2BT111 Credit: 3
(For the III year students and Effective for batch 2009 onwards) Going with III year B.E. (ECE)

Subject: INDUSTRIAL DRIVES AND CONTROL

AC VOLTAGE CONTROLLERS
Principle of On -Off and phase control – Single phase Bi directional controllers with
resistive load, Inductive load – Three phase half wave, full wave controllers- Cyclo-
converters – Single phase and three phase. AC voltage controller with PWM control.

INDUSTRIAL HEATING AND DC MOTOR DRIVES

Principles of feedback control. PI and PID control. Soft starters for motors. DC motor
drives- Basic characteristics of DC motor – Operating modes – Single phase and three
phase drives – Closed loop control of DC drives.

AC MOTOR DRIVES
Induction and synchronous motor drives – switched reluctance and brushless motor
drives – Battery charger – SMPS – UPS – induction and dielectric heating.

REFERENCES:

1. B.W. Williams, “Power Electronics – Devices, Drivers, Applications and passive

components”, Macmillan, (2/e), 1992.
2. Rashid M.H., “Power Electronics circuits, Devices and Applications”, Prentice Hall
India, Third Edition, Newdelhi, 2004.
3. M.D. Singh and K.B.Khanchandani, “Power Electronics”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.
4. Mohan, Undeland and Robins, “Power Electronics – Concepts, applications and
design”, John Wiley and sons, Singapore, 2000.
5. Dubey : Thyristorised power controllers, Wiley Eastern 1986.
6. Bimal K. Bose, “Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives”, Pearson
 Department of Electronics and Communication
Course: CO-DIPLOMA IN POWER ELECTRONICS Branch: ECE
Semester: II Sub. Code: EDPE2BT112 Credit: 3
(For the III year students and Effective for batch 2009 onwards) Going with III year B.E. (ECE)

Subject: APPLICATIONS IN SCIENTIFIC AND OTHER ADVANCED

INSTRUMENTS

APPLICATION IN SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

The X-Ray generator. Three stage power supply circuits for firing LASERS. Electron
guns and ion acceleration circuits. Electron bombardment furnace.

HVDC SYSTEMS AND FACTS

Application of converters in HVDC systems - Static VAR control - Sources of reactive
power - Harmonics and filters - Concept of flexible AC Transmission system – Static
VAR compensators - Thyristor controlled reactor - Thyristor switched capacitor – Static
condenser – Controllable series compensation – UPFC – Static Voltage and Phase angle
Regulators – Transient Stability Analysis.

REFERENCES:

1. B.W. Williams, “Power Electronics – Devices, Drivers, Applications and passive

components”, Macmillan, (2/e), 1992.
2. Rashid M.H., “Power Electronics circuits, Devices and Applications”, Prentice Hall
India, Third Edition, Newdelhi, 2004.
3. M.D. Singh and K.B.Khanchandani, “Power Electronics”, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.
4. Mohan, Undeland and Robins, “Power Electronics – Concepts, applications and
design”, John Wiley and sons, Singapore, 2000.
5. Dubey : Thyristorised power controllers, Wiley Eastern 1986.
6. Bimal K. Bose, “Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives”, Pearson
 Department of Electronics and Communication
Course: CO-DIPLOMA IN POWER ELECTRONICS Branch: ECE
Semester: II Sub. Code: EDPE2BP111 Credit: 2
(For the III year students and Effective for batch 2009 onwards) Going with III year B.E. (ECE)

Subject: POWER ELECTRONICS AND DRIVES LABORATORY

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS :

1. Analysis of Dual Converter Fed DC Motor Drive

2. Chopper Fed DC Drive

3. DSP controlled AC drive

4. Regulated DC power supply

5. Proportional controller based temperature controller.

6. IGBT Based Three Phase PWM Inverter