Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems (BEE515B)

Power Electronics for Renewable Energy Systems

Course Code BEE515B 
CIE Marks 50
Teaching Hours/Week (L:T:P: S) 3:0:0:0 
SEE Marks 50
Total Hours of Pedagogy 40 
Total Marks 100
Credits 03 
Exam Hours 03
Examination type (SEE) Theory

Module-1

Review of Power semiconductor devices: Thyristors, GTOs, POWER MOSFETS, IGBTs,

MCTs.

Classification of Energy Sources – Importance of Non-conventional energy sources,

Advantages and disadvantages of conventional energy sources, Impacts of renewable

energy generation on the environment.

Module-2

Solar PV Systems: Solar PV characteristics, Grid requirement for PV, Power electronic

converters used for solar PV, Control techniques, 12-pulse rectifier circuits - high voltage

12-pulse rectifier, and high current 12- pulse rectifier, MPPT, Grid connected and Islanding

mode, Grid synchronization, PLLs, battery charging in PV systems.

Module-3

Wind Energy Conversion: Wind Turbine characteristics, Grid requirement for Wind, PMSM

and DFIG for wind generators, Power electronic converters for PMSM and DFIG rotor side

and stator side converters, Control techniques, MPPT, Grid connected and Islanding mode

of operation.

Module-4

Qualitative study of other renewable energy resources: Ocean energy, Biomass energy,

Hydrogen energy, Fuel cells: Operating principles and characteristics

Module-5

Power Converters and their control in AC microgrids: Microgrid architecture, AC, Microgrid,

AC/DC microgrid, Schematics of solar PV and WT powered DC and DC/AC microgrids,

Grid-forming, grid-feeding, current source based grid supporting and voltage source based

grid supporting converters. Grid feeding converters- Droop control with dominant inductive

and dominant resistive grids, overview of virtual impedance control, overview of hierarchical

control.

Suggested Learning Resources:

Books

1. Fang Lin Luo, Hong Ye, “Advanced DC/AC Inverters: Applications in Renewable

Energy” CRC Press.

2. Sudipta Chakraborty, Marcelo G. Simões, William E. Kramer, “Power Electronics for

Renewable and Distributed Energy Systems” Springer 2013.

Journal Publications

a. “An Overview of Power Electronics Applications in Fuel Cell Systems: DC and AC

Converters” Hindawi Publishing Corporation, Scientific World Journal, Volume 2014,

Article ID 103709, 9 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/103709

b. J. Rocabert, A. Luna, F. Blaabjerg and P. Rodríguez, "Control of Power Converters in

AC Microgrids," in IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 27, no. 11, pp. 4734-

4749, Nov. 2012, doi: 10.1109/TPEL.2012.21993

c. S. P. Bihari et al., "A Comprehensive Review of Microgrid Control Mechanism and

Impact Assessment for Hybrid Renewable Energy Integration," in IEEE Access, vol. 9,

pp. 88942-88958, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3090266.