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Lecture 1
Tel: 704-687-0939
Email: Tiefu.Zhao@uncc.edu
EPIC Building, Room 1160
Office hours: 2:00 pm 3:30 pm, TR
Introduction
Education and Experience
Assistant Professor at UNC Charlotte
6 years industry R&D experience at Eaton
Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University
B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Research Areas
Grid edge power electronics
Solid state circuit protection
Renewable energy integration and smart grid
Wide bandgap device based power converters
Real time co-simulation for power electronic system
Introduction: You
Your name
Course Descriptions:
The course will focus on the advanced topics in three phase power electronics. The
topics include AC/DC rectifiers, DC/AC inverters, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)
modulation techniques, closed-loop controller design, advanced concepts in magnetic
and thermal design, and three phase high power applications including grid-tie inverters,
UPS, motor drive.
The students will learn the theories, operation principles, design and industry applications
of three phase power converters. Real industry examples will be used for course
materials and discussed in the class. The course will be research oriented. The students
will be learning the steps to conduct research in these topics, search and read papers,
critique them, and present their own ideas.
Syllabus
Prerequisites
Requires knowledge in: (a) Power Electronic I or equivalent power electronics and power system
fundamentals (b) Control theory fundamentals (c) Matlab/Simulink
Textbook
Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design, Third Edition, by Ned Mohan, ISBN: 978-
0471226932
Reference
The following textbooks may be useful, although not required for the course:
Erickson and Maksimovic, Fundamentals of Power Electronics, 2nd edition, Springer ISBN 0792372700
J. Baliga, Fundamentals of Power Semiconductor Devices, Springer, ISBN 9780387 473147, 2008
Topics
Introduction
Power semiconductor switches
Single phase and three phase uncontrolled rectifiers
Single phase and three phase controlled rectifiers
DC/DC converters review
Mid-term exam #1
Single phase DC/AC inverters, PWM modulation,
Three phase DC/AC inverters
Mid-term exam #2
Resonant converters
Controller design
Applications: switching power supply, UPS, solar, motor drive
Industry guest lectures TBD
Final exam
Project report and presentation
Grading
Your grade will be based on your performance on homework assignments, one
midterm exam, one final exam, one research project and presentation.
Presentation and research topics must be approved by the instructor. Students will
be evaluated on the following:
Homework assignments =25%, Mid-term exams =25%, Final exam = 25%,
Course project = 25%
(Presentations and projects will be done in groups of two students. Although
presentations and research projects will be done in groups of two students, each
student will have an independent component in it. This has to be made clear by
each group while planning the presentation or research project.)
Power Electronics
Power electronics is the technology for conversion and processing of electric power
and its applications. It provides the basis for a variety of new electrical circuit
architectures that allow substantial improvements in performance and flexibility.
AC/DC
The objective of a converter is to match
DC/DC the voltage and current requirements of
Converters the load to the source. They convert one
DC/AC type or level of a voltage or current
waveform to another.
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DC/DC Converters
Converts unregulated DC to regulated DC and
widely used in DC motor drives.
Low Efficiency
Series transistor as an adjustable Heavy and bulky
resistor
DC/DC Converters
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Transistor as a switch
High Efficiency
High-Frequency Transformer
Basic Principle of Switch-Mode Synthesis
Constant switching
frequency
Pulse width controls the
average
L-C filters the ripple
DC/AC Inverters
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Application in Adjustable Speed Drives
Advanced Thermal
Modularity Management for Power
Electronics