Power Electronics Laboratory

Cycle 2

Cycle 2: List of experiments

5. Study of Single Phase and Three Phase Bridge Uncontrolled Rectifier. 6. Study of Single Phase Semi-controlled and fully Controlled Rectifier. 7. Study of Three Phase Semi-converter. 8. Study of Single Phase half bridge and full bridge inverters using MATLAB simulink.

Scientech 2700 High voltage lab

5(a) Single phase diode rectifiers

Lamp load & Motor load

Motor load

Ref: Ch 5, Nedmohan et al.

Resistive(lamp/heater) load

5(b) 3 phase diode rectifiers

Heater/lamp load Ref: Ch 5, Nedmohan et al.

Structure and symbol of SCR (Thyristors)

PNPN device.

Structure revisited

Ref: Ch 23, Nedmohan et al.

Characteristics of Thyristor

Bidirectional voltage 2 quadrant switch. Turn on can be controlled. Turn OFF is done by the circuit.

Ramp comparator circuit

Ramp firing scheme

Single phase Cosine firing circuit

6(a) Single phase semi-controlled bridge rectifier

Lamp load & motor load Ref: Ch 6, Nedmohan et al.

6(b) Single phase fully controlled bridge rectifier

Lamp load & motor load Ref: Ch 6, Nedmohan et al.

7. Three phase semi-controlled rectifier (Firing scheme)

7. Three phase semi-controlled rectifier (Power circuit)

Lamp load /heater load

Simulation of single-phase inverters in Simulink (Simpower ) environment

8(a). single-phase Half bridge PWM inverter. 8(b). single-phase Full bridge Square wave inverter. 8(c). single-phase Full bridge PWM inverter.

Ref: Ch 8, section 8.1-8.3, Nedmohan et al.

Simulation model

Half bridge PWM inverter

Single phase full bridge Square wave inverter

Single phase full bridge Unipolar PWM inverter

Report submission for Simulation.

Procedure for simulation experiment.

One laptop for 2 people. Simulation is to be demonstrated to the instructor, for the load conditions/parameters specified by the instructor. Be prepared with the principles of operation of each circuit. Printed individual reports, to be submitted in the prescribed format in the subsequent week/turn, for the conditions/parameters specified by instructor.

Waveform

Waveform (colour inverted)

Power GUI

FFT calculation tool

FFT for a waveform

FFT parameters

FFT parameters

FFT list

FFT list