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The power electronics applets finally will be organized in three courses based on educational modules as listed in the following. All three courses are taught at the ETH Zurich.

Introductory Interactive Power Electronics Seminar

  1. Basic structures of power electronic systems
  2. DC/DC converters without output voltage isolation (continuous and discontinuous operation)
  3. DC/DC converters with output voltage isolation, transformer
  4. Control oriented basics of DC/DC converters modeling
  5. Design of power electronics converters (types of power semiconductor devices, thermal design, magnetic components, mechanical design, EMI)
  6. Single-phase diode bridge with output capacitor, effects on the mains, power factor correction (PFC)
  7. Self-commutated single- and three-phase inverter bridge with constant output voltage, pulse width modulation, space vector calculus
  8. Line-commutated three-phase half-bridge converter, rectifier and inverter operation
  9. Series connection of line-commutated half-bridge converters, full-bridge converter
  10. Parallel-connection of line commutated -converters, inter-phase transformer
  11. Anti-parallel connection of line-commutated converters, four-quadrant DC machine drive
  12. Resonance converters, u-Zi-diagram

Advanced Interactive Power Electronics Seminar - Part I

  1. DC/DC converter - control schemes (current mode control, instability, ...)
  2. DC/DC converter - controller design
  3. Single-phase AC/DC converter - controller design
  4. DC drive - converter topologies and control schemes
  5. Permanent synchronous machine (PSM) - rotational field / field orientated control
  6. Permanent synchronous machine (PSM) - control schemes with phase quantities and rotating coordinates
  7. Modulation of three-phase DC voltage link converters - space vector calculus / degrees of freedom
  8. Modulation of three-phase DC current link converters - space vector calculus / degrees of freedom
  9. Synthesis of converter systems / topological restrictions, interleaved operation
  10. Multi-cell converters
  11. Detailled function of modern power semiconductor devices / non-idealities / future developments
  12. Construction of power electronic systems 1 - DC/DC converter
  13. Construction of power electronic systems 2 - three-phase PSM machine

Advanced Interactive Power Electronics Seminar - Part II

  1. Induction machine drives / basic function
  2. Induction machine drives / field-orientated control
  3. Induction machine drives with limited speed control range, synchronous machine drives
  4. Cycloconverters - line-commutated / matrix-converters - self-commutated
  5. Line-commutated converter systems with higher pulse-number / transformer connections
  6. Three-phase AC chopper
  7. DC/DC converter - phase shift full bridge (current doubler, integrated magnetics)
  8. DC/DC converter - soft switching / resonance
  9. Construction of power electronic systems 3 - three-phase PWM rectifier
  10. Construction of power electronic systems 4 - single-phase DC/AC converter
  11. Construction of power electronic systems 5 - standards and regulations / EMC
  12. Topological relations of converter circuits
  13. Chaotic behavior of power electronic systems