72651 - Power Converters for Renewable Energy Systems (2nd cycle)

Academic Year 2021/2022

Learning outcomes

The student will receive operating principles and design cues for power converters, aimed at optimal efficiency. This knowledge can be used for analysis, design and control of power stage in wind farms and photovoltaics.

Course contents

Power Electronics

  • Review of most common power electronic devices for static energy conversion: Diodes, MOSFET, IGBT.
  • Basic Configurations of AC/DC, DC/DC, DC/AC converters
  • Grid connection

AC/DC converters

  • Non controlled diode rectifiers
  • Controlled rectifiers

DC/DC converters

  • Buck
  • Boost
  • Buck-boost
  • Flyback

Inverter

  • Modulation techniques
  • Single-phase architectures
  • Three-phase architectures

Lab

Test of a DC/DC power converter.

Readings/Bibliography

Andrzej M. Trzynadlowski, "Introduction to Modern Power Electronics", Wiley

Mohan Ned, Undeland Tore, Robbins William, "Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design", John Wiley & Sons Inc; 4 edizione

Robert W. Erickson, Dragan Maksimovic, "Fundamentals of Power Electronics", Kluwer Academic Pub

Muhammad Rashid, "Power Electronics Handbook", Butterworth-Heinemann; 4 edizione, 2017.

Remus Teodorescu, Marco Liserre, Pedro Rodríguez, "Grid Converters for Photovoltaic and Wind Power Systems", John Wiley & Sons Inc Print on

S. Chkraborty, M.G. Simoes, W.E. Kramer, "Power Electronics for Renewable and Distributed Energy Systems. A sourcebook of topologies, control and integration", Springer, 2013

Teaching methods

Lectures with Power Point slides.

Numerical simulation with MATLAB.

Lab test with DC/DC converters.

Assessment methods

Locally developed pre- and post- tests will be used to assess skills in power converters analysis and design.

Teamwork projects will be used to assess the capability of solving real problems, e.g. basic power stages for wind and photovoltaic converters.

All students will show substantial improvement in stated learning outcomes, as indicated by pre- and post- evaluation of real problems.

The final test will be a oral examination. Pre- and post-evaluation are mandatory conditions for the final test.

Teaching tools

Lectures with Power Point.

Teamwork and numerical simulation of basic power converter topologies.

Design kit of DC/DC power converters.

Office hours

See the website of Alberto Bellini

See the website of Andrea Natale Tallarico

SDGs

Affordable and clean energy Climate Action

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.