Automotive Power Electronics detailed syllabus for Automobile Engineering (AUTO) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the AUTO students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Automobile Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit AUTO 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Mandatory Course-I scheme and its subjects refer to AUTO Mandatory Course-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of automotive power electronics is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
AUTOMOTIVE POWERSEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES 9 Power Electronic Circuits – Types, design of equipments, RMS waveforms, peripheral effects. Power Transistors- types, operation. Diodes- types, operation and characteristics. BJT and MOSFETs- Steady state, switching characteristics. Power MOSFETs and IGBTs-importance, operations. SPICEMODELS-Diode, BJT and MOSFETs Simulation concepts.
Unit II
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Unit III
RECTIFIERS AND INVERTERS 9 Diode Rectifiers- Single-phase, Three-phase, Poly-phase Diode Rectifiers- Rectifier circuit design. Voltage Source Inverters- Single-phase, Three-phase Voltage Source Inverters. Current Source Inverters-Inverter circuit design. SPICE MODEL- Rectifiers and Invertors simulation concepts.
Unit IV
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Unit V
RECENT TRENDS AND CASE STUDIES IN POWER ELECTRONICS 9 Wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors-Silicon power Transistors-design overview-Gallium Nitride Transistors-SiC Vs GaN in powerswitching applications-HEV/EVOn board chargers-Wiboticautonomous wireless charging systems-Boeing 787 Electrical Power System-Case studies. Simulation Packages overview- SPICE, EMTP and PSIM.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Rashid M.H., “Power Electronics Circuits- Devices and Applications”, Pearson Education, Fourth Edition,2014.
- Haitham Abu-Rub, Mariusz Malinowski and Kamal Al-Haddad Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems, Transportation and Industrial Applications, John Wiley and sons,2014.
- Bhimbhra P.S., “Power Electronics”, Khanna Publishers, 2002.
Reference Books:
- Ali Emadi, “Handbook of automotive power electronics and motor drives “, CRC Press, 2005.
- Rashid M.H., ” SPICE for Power Electronics and Electric Power”, CRC Press, Third Edition, New Delhi, 2012.
- ” New Power Electronics and Variable Frequency Drives”- IEEE Press, 1997
- Gallium Nitride (GaN) Power ICs: Turning Academic Dreams into an Industry Reality- white paper.
- Driving the future of HEV/EV with high-voltage solutions- white paper, Texas instruments.
- Saving Energy Through Innovation and Technology- white paper, Infineon.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Automobile Engineering 5th Sem, visit AUTO 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Automobile Engineering results, visit Anna University AUTO all semester results direct link.