34574 - Static Electric Energy Conversion (Graduate Course)

Academic Year 2012/2013

  • Docente: Angelo Tani
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-IND/32
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electrical Energy Engineering (cod. 8611)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Electrical Energy Engineering (cod. 8611)

Learning outcomes

The course aims to provide skills for the analysis and the design of power electronic converters. Main topics are the topologies of DC/DC, DC/AC and AC/AC converters, the criteria for sizing, and the control strategies. Specific industrial applications of these converters, such as UPS, motor control, and active filters, will be analyzed.

Course contents

DC/DC converters

Two quadrant choppers. Pulse Width Modulation, hysteresis current regulators, PI based current regulators.

DC/AC converters

Introduction to current source inverters.

Single-phase voltage source inverters. Basic structure, square wave modulation, Pulse Width Modulation, output current ripple analysis, input current analysis.

Three-phase voltage source inverters. Basic structure, square wave modulation, Space Vector Modulation and generalized Pulse Width Modulation, output current ripple analysis, input current analysis, hysteresis current regulators, PI based current regulators in a stationary reference frame, PI based current regulators in a synchronous reference frame.

Multilevel inverters. Diode-clamped inverters, flying-capacitors inverters, cascaded inverters, square wave modulation, Pulse Width Modulation.

AC/AC converters

Back-to-back converter. Structure and modulation strategy. Introduction to matrix converters. Grid interface of variable speed generators.

Space vectors and zero sequence components

Direct and inverse transformations, properties.

Power conditioning systems

Active Filters. Structures and control strategies.

Grid interface of energy storage devices

Superconductive Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES), supercapacitors, batteries, flywheels.

Readings/Bibliography

The slides utilized during the lessons are available in paper format and the pdf files can be downloaded from Internet.

Title: Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design, 3rd Edition
Authors: Mohan Ned, Undeland Tore M., Robbins William P
Editor Wiley&sons
Published: 2003
ISBN: 978-0-471-22693-2
482 pages

Teaching methods

The lessons are supported by exercises with PC.

Assessment methods

Report onthe simulation of some power electronic converters.
Oral examination.

Teaching tools

Lessons are carried out with the help of a PC and a computer projector (Power Point). Some PCs are available for simulation of power electronic converters.

Office hours

See the website of Angelo Tani