- Docente: Alessandro Chini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-INF/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Advanced Automotive Electronic Engineering (cod. 9238)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to provide principles of operation, analysis techniques and basic design criteria of power electronics converters and systems.
Course contents
Operating principles of switching converters.
Buck, Boost, and SEPIC converter operation in CCM and DCM.
Time invariant model of switching converters.
Role of conduction losses on the efficiency and conversion ratio.
Diodes and FETs switching characteristics.
Switching losses and gate drive circuits.
Silicon and WBG semiconductor power devices.
Power factor definition and PFC topologies.
Isolated and resonant converters operating principles.
Switching topologies for battery-charger circuits.
Readings/Bibliography
Lesson notes
N. Mohan, T.M. Undeland, W.P. Robbins, Power electronics: converters, applications, and design, 2nd edition, J. Wiley & Sons Inc., 1995.
R. W. Erickson, D. Maksimovic, "Fundamentals of Power Electronics 2nd edition", KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW, 2004.
Teaching methods
Classroom teaching by means of slides and blackboard.
Assessment methods
Final exam will include a one and a half hour written test including the solution of one numerical exercise and the answer to two questions regarding the course topics. A short oral discussion (max. 30 minutes) will follow.
Teaching tools
Lessons and exercises in room.
Some SPICE simulations will also be carried out during lesson for supporting the understanding of converters operation.
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Chini