EE603
Spring Term 2006
Course Title Power Electronics
Time Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9:00 - 9:50
Room 253 F. Paul Anderson Tower
Instructor Arthur V Radun
Office Anderson Hall 689
Phone 257-4289
Email radun@engr.uky.edu
Office hours Mon. 10:00 - 11:00, Weds. 3:00 - 4:00, Thurs. 11:00 - 12:00. You may stop by my office anytime (there is no guarantee I will be there) or make an appointment.
Text Required – Power Electronics Converters, Applications, and Design, Mohan, Underland, and Robbins, John Wiley & Sons Inc., second edition, 1995
Not required / additional reading – Power Electronics Circuits, Devices, and Applications, Rashid, Prentic-Hall Inc., second edition, 1993
Spice: There will be Spice problems on most homework assignments. Solutions will use B2 Spice, which is on the Civil engineering computer lab computers and some W. T. Young Library computers. A student version of B2 Spice 2.1 can be purchased from Beige Bag Software, Inc., 279 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2120, Phone: (734) 332-0487, Fax: (734) 332-0392, Info@beigebag.com, http://www.beigebag.com/pricing_other.htm for $55.00. You can get B2 Spice A/D v4 Lite for free. It should be adequate for most homework problems. The purchase of B2 Spice is not required. To use the UK computers you will need an account. It is best to get your account as soon as possible and verify that you can get B2 Spice to run before you need it.
GOALS: To provide students with the working knowledge required to analyze and design power electronic circuits. Power electronic circuits are power circuits that employ semiconductors for power control. Circuits that will be studied include step down DC/DC converters, step up DC/DC converters, rectifiers, H-switch inverters and their application to four quadrant DC motor control, and inverters. The students will learn to calculate circuit losses, semiconductor stresses, and semiconductor transients. Modeling of power electronic circuits for their control will also be studied.
Exams Two exams and a final. Exams will be during scheduled class time in 253 F. Paul Anderson Tower. Final will be during finals week in 253 F. Paul Anderson Tower.
Exam 1 Fri. Feb. 3
Material covered in class to 01-30-06
Exam 2 Fri. Mar. 3
Material covered in class to 02-27-06
Final Wed. May 3, 2006 at 8:00 AM
All of the material covered during the semester
Homework There will be weekly homework. Weekly homework will typically consist of two parts, hand calculations and Spice problems. The two parts of the homework will be graded separately and receive a separate grade. Homework assignments can be found at http://www.engr.uky.edu/~radun/EE603. Late homework will not be accepted. Weekly homework will be checked to see if it is complete. Random problems will be graded in detail. Hand in what you have completed. Do your own homework. You may ask your fellow students and myself questions to clarify how to do the homework, but do it yourself. This is the only way to develop problem-solving skills. Homework solutions will be available on the Web where the assignments are located.
Design Problem The design problem will be handed out about April. 7, 2006 and will be graded in detail. Its weight value for your grade is the same as an exam. You may ask your fellow students and myself questions to clarify how to do the design problem, but your solution must be your own.
Grading Homework, hand calculations 5%, Spice problems 5%, two exams 20% each, Design problem 20%, Final 30%.
Your grade will be determined by your relative standing in the class. For each component of your grade, homework, exam 1, exam 2, etc. a class standing grade will be generated by adding (89.9 – the class average) to your actual grade for that component to generate a class average grade. Thus if your actual grade for that component is equal to the class average you will have a class standing grade of 89.9 for that component. A total class standing grade will be generated using the weighting above. A total class standing grade of 90 and above is an A, 80-89.9 is a B, 70-79.9 is a C, 60-69.9 is a D, and below a 60 is an E. The scores of any students more than two standard deviations below the class average will not be included in the computation of the class average. Some deviation from the above procedure may occur under unusual circumstances.
Requests to have an exam grading error changed must be made in writing within 14 calendar days of the exam being returned to the class.
OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of this course students should demonstrate the ability to:
1. Do a basic steady state analysis of a DC/DC converter and DC motor drive.
2. Size capacitors, inductors, and semiconductors to meet circuit requirements.
3. Draw the circuit schematic of the common converters and inverters.
4. Be able to calculate the DC, rms, and ac parts of a waveform and know their significance.
5. Calculate the losses in a power electronic circuit and compute the resulting temperature rises.
6. Be able to use average model techniques to develop control models of power electronic circuits. Be able to complete control transient analysis of power electronic circuits.
7. Linearize non-linear power electronic control models and make small signal models.
8. Be able to break complex power electronic circuits into their component parts.
9. Know the basic power quality issues.
10. Use commercial simulation tools (such as SPICE and Simulink) to simulate power electronic circuits.