58156 - Industrial Electronics L-A

Academic Year 2008/2009

  • Docente: Fabio Filicori
  • Credits: 6
  • SSD: ING-INF/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Electronic Engineering (cod. 0048)

Learning outcomes

This course is aimed at providing the basic knowledge needed for the study of electronic circuits used in industrial automation, with special emphasis on  application issues of power electronics

Course contents

Introduction to the industrial applications of power electronics. Power efficiency and distortion in power amplifiers and electronic converters. Mono-phase and three-phase rectifier circuits. Voltage stabilizers. Filters for distortion redution. Power amplifiers: study of the different classes of operation. Analysis of driving problems of electrical motors and of the corresponding requirements on power amplifiers. Switch-mode electronic power converters: DC/DC an DC/AC schemes. Implementation of switching networks using power diodes, BJTs, MOSFETs and IGBTs. Pulse-Width-Modulation (PWM) control, over two and four quadrants, of switch-mode power converters. Basic concepts on heat dissipation and thermal limits in power electron devices.

Readings/Bibliography

-F.Filicori, G. Vannini, Elettronica Industriale, Ed. Progetto Leonardo -N. Mohan, T.M. Undeland, W.P. Robbins, Elettronica di Potenza, Ed. Hoepli

Teaching methods

During the course, the structure and the operating principles of different power electronic circuits for industrial applications will be studied by complementing the theoretical lessons with numerical design examples.

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Teaching tools

Copies of transparencies used during the lessons. Notes from the course.

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Filicori