Industrial Electronics
Course Code BEC405B
CIE Marks 50
Teaching Hours/Week (L: T:P: S) 3:0:0
SEE Marks 50
Total Hours of Pedagogy 40 hours
Total Marks 100
Credits 03
Exam Hours 03
Examination type (SEE) Theory
Module-1
Industrial Power Devices: General purpose power diodes, fast recovery power diodes, schottky power
diodes, silicon carbide power diodes (Text book 1: 2.5, 2.6), Power MOSFETs, Steady state characteristics,
switching characteristics, silicon carbide MOSFETs, COOLMOS, Junction field effect transistors, operation
and characteristics of JFETs, Silicon Carbide JFET structures, Bipolar Junction Transistors, Steady state
characteristics, switching characteristics, silicon carbide BJTs, IGBT, silicon carbide IGBTs (Text book 1:
4.3, 4.4, 4.6, 4.7
Module-2
Power Electronics Circuits: ), Thyristor, Thyristor characteristics, two transistor model (Text book 1:
9.2, 9.3, 9.4).Controlled Rectifiers – Single phase full converter with R and RL load, Single phase dual
converters, and Three phase full converter with RL load (Text book 1: 10.2, 10.3, 10.4).
Switching mode regulators – Buck Regulator, Boost regulator, Buck – Boost regulator, comparison of
regulators (Text book 1: 5.9.1, 5.9.2, 5.9.3, 5.10)
Module-3
Inverters – Principle of operation, Single phase bridge inverter, Three phase inverter with 180 and 120
degree conduction, Current source inverter (Text book 1: 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.9).
AC voltage controllers – Single phase full wave controller with resistive load, single phase full wave
controller with inductive load (Text book 1: 11.3, 11.4).
Module-4
MEMS Devices: Sensing and Measuring Principles, Capacitive Sensing, Resistive Sensing, Piezoelectric
Sensing, Thermal Transducers, Optical Sensors, Magnetic Sensors, MEMS Actuation Principles, Electrostatic
Actuation, Thermal Actuation, Piezoelectric Actuation, Magnetic Actuation, MEMS Devices Inertial Sensors,
Pressure Sensors, Radio Frequency MEMS: Capacitive Switches and Phase Shifters, Microfluidic Components,
Optical Devices. (Text book 2: 13.1, 13.3, 13.4)
MEMS Applications: Introduction, Industrial, Automotive, Biomedical (Text book 2:15.1, 15.2,
15.3, 15.4)
Module-5
Protections of Devices and Circuits: Cooling and Heat sinks, Thermal Modeling of Power Switching Devices,
Electrical Equivalent Thermal model, Mathematical Thermal Equivalent Circuit, Coupling of Electrical and
Thermal Components, Snubber circuits, Voltage protection by Selenium Diodes and Metaloxide Varistors,
Current protection, Fusing, Fault current with AC source, Fault current with DC source, Electromagnetic
Interference, sources of EMI, Minimizing EMI Generation, EMI shielding, EMI standards (Text book 1: 17.2,
17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 17.7, 17.8, 17.9).
Suggested Learning Resources:
Text Books
1. Power Electronics: Devices, Circuits, and Applications, Muhammad H. Rashid, Pearson, 4th International
edition.
2. Fundamentals of Industrial Electronics , Bogdan M. Wilamowski, J. David Irwin, CRC Press, 2011,
Reference Books
1. Thomas E. Kissell, Industrial Electronics: Applications for Programmable Controllers, Instrumentation
and Process Control, and Electrical Machines and Motor Controls, 3rd edition, 2003, Prentice Hall.
2. Ned Mohan, T.M. Undeland and W.P. Robbins, “Power Electronics: Converters, Applications and Design”,
Wiley India Ltd, 2008.
Web links and Video Lectures (e-Resources):
https://archive.nptel.ac.in/courses/108/102/108102145/
https://nptel.ac.in/courses/117105082
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKg8GNii0Q-ieXE56AXosGg/featured
https://www.ieee-ies.org/
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