Power Electronics

General

• Course Code: 1702
• Semester: 7th
• Course Type: Scientific Area (SA)
• Course Category: Compulsory (CO)
• Scientific Field: Electronics (EL)
• Lectures: 4 hours/week
• ECTS units: 6
• Teching and exams language: Greek
• Recommended prerequisite courses: (1202) Measurements and Alternating Current Circuits
• Coordinator: Kioskeridis Iordanis
• Instructors: Kioskeridis Iordanis

Educational goals

The purpose of the course is the student to understand the particularities of electronic power circuits, the functional behavior of ideal and real semiconductor switches, and the principle of operation of power circuits with alternating current input. The specific objectives of the course are that the student can:

• Remember, reproduce, analyze, and apply knowledge from DC circuits and AC circuits lessons.
• Recognize and demonstrate the particularities of power converters.
• Evaluate, compare and select the most suitable power switch for each application.
• Recognize, describe, and interpret the operation of power converters.
• Evaluate and select the most appropriate power circuit, depending on the application.

General Skills

• Search, analyze and synthesize data and information, using the necessary technologies.
• Decision making.
• Independent work.
• Teamwork.
• Exercising criticism and self-criticism.
• Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking.

Course Contents

• Principle of operation of power circuits.
• Ideal power switches.
• Semiconductor power switches.
• Single – phase rectifiers.
• Multi – phase rectifiers.
• Applications of rectifiers with diodes and SCRs.
• Single – phase cycloconverters.
• Single and multi phase ac voltage regulators.

Teaching Methods - Evaluation

Teaching Method

• Face to face teaching.

Use of ICT means

• Using Power Point Presentations software.
• Using the online learning platform (moodle).
• Contact students via email.

Teaching Organization

Students evaluation

Written final examination, which is in the form of problem solving with distinct difficulty and the free use of any help.

The grade on the written final examination must be at least five (5.0).

The evaluation criteria are notified to the students through the course web page and also during the lectures.

Recommended Bibliography

Complementary greek bibliography

1. (Ελληνικά) Μάριος Χατζηπροκοπίου, “Ηλεκτρονικά Ισχύος και Βιομηχανικά Ηλεκτρονικά”, Εκδότης Μασκλαβάνος Θεόδωρος, 2η έκδοση 2009, ISBN: 978-960-90343-3-3
2. Mohan Ned, Undeland Tore A., Robbins William P., “Εισαγωγή στα Ηλεκτρονικά Ισχύος”, ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ Α. ΤΖΙΟΛΑ & ΥΙΟΙ Α.Ε., 3η έκδοση 2010, ISBN: 978-960-418-250-3

Complementary international bibliography

1. B. K. Bose, “Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives”, Prentice-Hall, 2001, ISBN: 978-0130167439.
2. C. W. Lander, “Power Electronics”, McGraw-Hill, 3rd edition 1994, ISBN: 9780077077143.
3. J. M. D. Murphy, “Power Electronic Control of Alternating Current Motors”, Pergamon, 1990, ISBN: 978-0080405018.
4. G. K. Dubey, “Power Semiconductor Controlled Drives”, Prentice-Hall, 1989, ISBN: 978-0136868903.

Scientific journals

1. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics.
2. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications.
3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.