Interactive Power Electronics Seminar (iPES)

Interactive Power Electronics Seminar (iPES) - www.ipes.ethz.ch

The following Java applets are part of the Introductory Course on Power Electronics taught by Prof. Kolar at the ETH Zurich. The interactive and animated applets are used as aid for teaching in the classroom and are displayed using a laptop and a beamer. Furthermore, the applets do provide an opportunity for the students to experiment and learn at home more efficiently.

Idea, content and programming:
German translation Johann W. Kolar and Uwe Drofenik
Power Electronic Systems Laboratory (PES)
ETH Zurich

Japanenese translation:

Yasuyuki Nishida
Nihon University (Japan)

Korean translation:

Jaeho Choi
Chungbuk National University (South Korea)

Chinese translation:

Dehong Xu
Zhejiang University (China)

Spanish translation:

Cristina Fernandez, Pablo Zumel
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

iPES-Circuits (Basic Circuits in Power Electronics)
This is an educational module dedicated to basic power electronic circuits. The module includes DC/DC converters, basic diode and thyristor converter systems, AC/DC inverter, space vector modulation and basic signal theory. In the future there will be minor changes (mainly additions and corrections). The material currently is available in German, English, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Spanish.

iPES-Circuits+ (Advanced Power Electronic Systems)
This is a collection of applets for power electronic systems of higher complexity employed in industry today. The applets are designed for giving an engineer a quick introduction into the system characteristics and features in order to reduce the development time. Besides the applets other resources like links to relevant papers and brief technical summaries are provided. This project will be extended in future on a continuous basis.The material currently is available only in English, translations might be added in the future.

iPES-Thermal (Thermal Problems in Power Electronics)
In this educational module thermal effects being important for the dimensioning and operation of power electronic converters In connection with the increasing requirements on the power density and reliability of power electronic a basic understanding of thermal problems will become more and more important for the engineer. Besides basics we also provide applets visualizing effects like thermal runaway and paralleling of power semiconductor devices. Further applets will be added, and translations into other languages than English will be provided in the future.

iPES-EMFields (Theory of Electric and Magnetic Fields)
This module is about basics of magnetic components in power electronics. The applets do visualize electrostatic fields, magnetic fields, the effect of magnetic permeability, rotating magnetic fields, and the systematic design of inductors. The applets in this module are partly based on finite element calculations which might result in performance problems on low clock frequency computers ( < 500MHz). The applets will be further improved and many more applets will be added in the future in order to cover the basics of passive power components in more detail. Currently the module is available only in English, translations will be added in the future.

Comments are welcome.

Last Change: December 20, 2002