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Grid-Connected Power Converters - Operating Principles
Prof. V Seshadri Sravan Kumar · IIT Hyderabad
About
Power electronic converters play a crucial role in integrating renewable energy systems into the power grid. This course focuses on the basic operating principles of grid-connected converters. It begins with an introduction to the switching pole, the fundamental building block of a grid-connected converter, and analyzes its operation under square-wave and sinusoidal pulse-width modulation. The commonly used single-phase and three-phase converter topologies are then introduced and analyzed using the switching pole as the unifying framework. The space vector modulation technique for three-phase converters is also covered. Together, these concepts lay the essential foundation for understanding the modeling and control of grid-connected converters, which are addressed in the follow-up course.
Intended audience: Third and Final Year UG students in Electrical/Electrical and Electronics Engineering, PG and PhD Students who (wish to) specialize in Power Electronics and Power Systems
Prerequisites: Anyone who has done some UG level courses related to circuit analysis, basic control systems and introductory power electronics can opt for this course.
Lectures
Week 1
- From Renewable Source to Grid – A System Overview
- Introduction to the Switching Pole
- Square Wave Mode of Operation of a Switching Pole
- Introduction to Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation
- Tutorial: Flexibility in the Square Wave Mode of Operation
Week 2
- SPWM: Modulation Index & Carrier Implementation
- Carrier Implementation of Center-Aligned Symmetric SPWM
- Harmonic Spectrum of Pole Voltage under SPWM
- Double Fourier Series of Switching Function
- THD Comparison in SPWM Variants
- Instantaneous Switching Model of Single Phase Converter - Tutorial
Week 3
- Single-Phase H-Bridge Converter: Structure & Bipolar Modulation
- Single-Phase H-Bridge Converter: Unipolar Modulation
- Introduction to Three-Phase Converters
- Three-Phase Converters: Harmonic Sequence & Line Voltage Spectrum
- Tutorial - Instantaneous Switching Model of Single Phase H-Bridge Converter
Week 4
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Hyderabad
- Department
- Electrical Engineering
- Teacher
- Prof. V Seshadri Sravan Kumar
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Engineering
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge. Coordinated by IIT Madras.
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