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Power Electronics - ELEC4614
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Electrical Eng and Telecommunications
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prereq: ELEC2133
 
 
Equivalent: ELEC4240
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 2 (more info)
 
 
Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Power semiconductor switching devices and their limitations; Switching characteristics, protection and limitations of various types of power semiconductor switches; Elementary concepts in power electronics; Application of power electronic converters in energy conversion, utility applications and power supplies and utilizations; Diode rectifier circuits, multi-pulse rectifiers, input and output waveform characterization, filter design. Non isolated DC-DC converters, circuits topologies, characteristics with continuous and discontinuous conduction, circuit design and control considerations, Quadrant operation; Isolated DC-DC converters, transformer design issues, core resetting; Single-phase and three-phase DC-AC inverters, modulation strategies, output waveform analysis and filter design; Utility interfaces; High power applications; Converter system implementation

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