ANNA UNIVERSITY - COIMBATORE 13

CURRICULUM - 2007
POST GRADUATE PROGRAMME
Branch: M.E. (POWER ELECTRONICS AND DRIVES)
SEMESTER I (FULL- TIME)
Subject
Code

Subject Name

Hours/Week
T
P

THEORY
07PE101

Applied Mathematics

100

07PE102

Modeling and Analysis of Electrical Machines

100

07PE103

Advanced Digital System Design

100

07PE104

Advanced Power Semiconductor Devices

100

07PE105

Analysis of Power Converters

100

07PEEXX

Elective I

100

100

18

700

PRACTICALS
07PE106

Modeling & Simulation Laboratory

TOTAL

SEMESTER II (FULL- TIME)

Subject
Code

Subject Name

Hours/Week
T
P

THEORY
07PE201

Digital Signal Processors

100

07PE202

Advanced Solid State Drives

100

07PE203

Simulation of Power Electronic Systems

100

07PE204

Embedded Systems *

100

07PEEXX

Elective II

100

07PEEXX

Elective III

100

100

18

700

PRACTICALS
07PE205

Power Electronics & Drives Laboratory

TOTAL

* Common to Power Electronics and Drives & Applied Electronics

LIST OF ELECTIVES
For SEMESTER I (ELECTIVE I)
Subject
Code

Subject Name

Hours/Week
L

THEORY
07PEE01

High Voltage Direct Current Transmission

100

07PEE02

Non Conventional Energy Systems

100

07PEE03

Special Electrical Machines

100

LIST OF ELECTIVES
For SEMESTER II (ELECTIVE II and ELECTIVE III)
Subject
Code

Subject Name

Hours/Week
T
P

THEORY
07PEE04

Computational Intelligent Techniques

100

07PEE05

Power Quality Engineering

100

07PEE06

Flexible AC Transmission Systems

100

07PEE07

Computer Communication and Networks

100

07PEE08

Project Management

100

07PEE09

Advances in Power Electronics

100

SEMESTER - II
07PE201 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS

UNIT - I

L T
3 1

INTRODUCTION

P
0

M
100
(12)

Need and benefits of Digital Signal Processing Typical signal processing

operations: Convolution, correlation. Filtering, transformation and modulation Algorithms for signal processing Basic architecture of DSPs - Fundamentals of
fixed point DSP architecture Fixed point number representation and computation
Fundamentals of floating point DSP architecture floating point number
representation and computation.
UNIT - II

TEXAS PROCESSORS

(12)

Study of TMS 320 C 5X processor - Architecture Addressing modes Instruction

set Programming.
UNIT - III

PERIPHERALS and INTERFACES OF DSP

(12)

Peripherals interface - Digital and analog Interface Host interface Memory

interface DMA ports Serial ports Applications.
UNIT - IV

COMMERCIAL DSP DEVICES

(12)

TMS C240 processor and ADSP 2181 processor- Architecture Addressing modes
program control Instruction and programming simple programs - Special
features PWM generation.
UNIT - V

MOTOR CONTROL APPLICATIONS

(12)

Controller implementation using TMS 320 F 2407 and TMS 320 F 2812 for AC and
DC motor speed control.
Lecture 45 Tutorial 15

Total 60

Reference Books
1

Sanjit K Mitra, Digital Signals Processing: A Computer based approach, Tata

McGraw Hill, Second edition, 2004.

Avatar Singh and S.Srinivasan, Digital Signal Processing: Implementation using

DSP microprocessors with examples from TMS 320C54XX, Thompson
Brooks/Cole, 2004

K.Padmanabhan et al. A Practical approach to Digital Signal Processing, New

Age Publications, 2001.

B. Venkataramani et al. Digital Signal Processor Architecture, Programming

and Applications , TMH, New Delhi 2002.

TMS320F/C24\x DSP controllers, Reference Guide-Literature No: SPRU160C ,

June 1994

07PE202 ADVANCED SOLID STATE DRIVES

UNIT - I

L T
3 1

MOTORS FUNDAMENTALS AND MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

P
0

M
100
(12)

DC motor - Types, induced emf, speed-torque relations; Speed control Armature

and field control; Ward Leonard control Constant torque and constant horse power
operations. Review of Induction Motor operation Equivalent circuit Performance
of the machine with variable voltage, rotor resistance variation, pole changing and
cascaded induction machines, slip power recovery Static Kramer Drive.
Synchronous, Brushless DC and Switched Reluctance Drives.
UNIT - II

CONVERTER AND CHOPPER CONTROL

(12)

Principle of phase control Series and separately excited DC motor with single
phase and three phase converters waveforms, performance parameters,
performance characteristics - Operation with free wheeling diode schemes; Drive
employing dual converter. Introduction to time ratio control and frequency
modulation; Class A, B, C, D and E chopper controlled DC motor performance
analysis, multi-quadrant control.
UNIT - III

VSI AND CSI FED INDUCTION MOTOR CONTROL

(12)

AC voltage controller fed induction machine operation Energy conservation issues

V/f operation theory requirement for slip and stator voltage compensation. CSI
fed induction machine Operation and characteristics - PWM controls.
UNIT - IV

FIELD ORIENTED CONTROL

(12)

Field oriented control of induction machines Theory DC drive analogy Direct or

Feed back vector control - Indirect or Feed forward vector control Flux vector
estimation - Space Vector Modulation control.
UNIT - V

DIRECT TORQUE CONTROL

(12)

Direct torque control of Induction Machines Torque expression with stator and rotor
fluxes, DTC control strategy optimum switching vector selection reduction of
torque ripple methods.
Lecture 45 Tutorial 15

Total 60

Reference Books
1

Gopal K Dubey, Power Semiconductor controlled Drives, Prentice Hall Inc.,

New Yersy, 1989.

Vedam Subramanyam, Electric Drives Concepts and Applications, Tata

McGraw Hill, 200.

Bimal K Bose, Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives , Pearson Education

Asia 2002.

R.Krishnan, Electric Motor Drives Modeling, Analysis and Control, PrenticeHall of India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2003.

Austin Hughes, Electric Motors and Drives Fundamentals, Types and

Applications, Elsevier a division of Reed Elsevier India private Limited,
NewDelhi, 2006.

10

07PE203

UNIT - I

SIMULATION OF POWER ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS

L T
3 0

INTRODUCTION

P
0

M
100
(9)

Need for Simulation - Challenges in simulation - Classification of simulation

programs - Overview of PSPICE, MATLAB and SIMULINK.
Mathematical Modeling of Power Electronic Systems: Static and dynamic models of
power electronic switches - Static and dynamic equations and state-space
representation of power electronic systems.
UNIT - II

PSPICE

(9)

File formats - Description of circuit elements - Circuit description Output variables Dot commands - SPICE models of Diode, Thyristor, Triac, BJT, Power MOSFET,
IGBT and MCT.
UNIT - III

MATLAB and SIMULINK

(9)

Toolboxes of MATLAB - Programming and file processing in MATLAB - Model

definition and model analysis using SIMULINK - S-Functions - Converting SFunctions to blocks.
UNIT - IV

SIMULATION USING PSPICE, MATLAB and SIMULINK

(9)

Diode rectifiers -Controlled rectifiers - AC voltage controllers - DC choppers - PWM

inverters Voltage source and current source inverters - Resonant pulse inverters Zero current switching and zero voltage switching inverters.
UNIT - V

SIMULATION OF DRIVES

(9)

Simulation of speed control schemes for DC motors Rectifier fed DC motors

Chopper fed DC motors VSI and CSI fed AC motors PWM Inverter DC link
inverter.
Reference Books

Total 45

Ramshaw. E., Schuuram D. C., PSpice Simulation of Power Electronics Circuits

An Introductory Guide, Springer, New York, 1996.

Chee-Mun Ong, "Dynamic Simulation of Electric Machinery : Using MATLAB/

Simulink", Prentice Hall PTR, New Jersey, 1998.

Ned Mohan, "Power Electronics: Computer Simulation Analysis and Education

using PSPICE", Minnesota Power Electronics Research and Education, USA,
1992.

Bimal K Bose, "Power Electronics and Variable Frequency Drives", IEEE Press,
New Jersey, 1996.

"The PSpice User's Guide", Microsim Corporation, California, 1996.

11

07PE204

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

(Common to Applied Electronics and Power Electronics & Drives)

UNIT - I

PIC MICROCONTROLLER 16F87X

L T
3 0

P
0

M
100
(9)

Architecture - Features Resets Memory Organisations : Program Memory, Data

Memory Instruction Set simple programs. Interrupts I/O Ports Timers- CCP
Modules- Master Synchronous serial Port(MSSP)- USART ADC- I2C
UNIT - II

EMBEDDED PROCESSORS

(9)

ARM processor- processor and memory organization, Data operations, Flow of

Control, CPU Bus configuration, ARM Bus, Memory devices, Input/output devices,
Component interfacing, designing with microprocessor development and debugging,
Design Example : Alarm Clock.
UNIT - III

EMBEDDED PROGRAMMING

(9)

Programming in Assembly Language(ALP) Vs High level language C program

elements, Macros and Functions Use of pointers NULL pointers use of function
calls multiple function calls in a cyclic order in the main function pointers Function
queues and interrupt service Routines queues pointers Concepts of Embedded
programming in C++ - Object oriented programming Embedded programming in
C++, C program compilers Cross compiler optimization of memory codes.
UNIT - IV

EMBEDDED SYSTEM CO-DESIGN

(9)

Embedded System project management Embedded system design and Co-Design

Issues in System Development process Design cycle in the development phase for
an embedded system Uses of Target system or its emulator and In-Circuit
Emulator Use of software Tools for Development of an embedded system Use of
scopes and logic analyzers for system hardware tests Issues in Embedded System
Design
UNIT - V

REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS

(9)

Operating system services I/O subsystems Network operating systems Interrupt

Routines in RTOS Environment RTOS Task scheduling models, Interrupt
Performance Metric in Scheduling Models IEEE standard POSIX functions for
standardization of RTOS and inter-task communication functions List of Basic
functions in a Preemptive scheduler Fifteen point strategy for synchronization
between processors, ISRs, OS Functions and Tasks OS security issues- Mobile
OS
Reference Books
1
2
3
4
5

Total 45

Raj Kamal , Embedded Systems Architecture, Programming and Design, Tata

McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 2003
Wayne Wolf, Computers as Components: Principles of Embedded Computing
System Design, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2001.
Frank Vahid and Tony Givargi Embedded System Design: A Unified
Hardware/Software Introduction, s, John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
John B Peatman, Design with PIC Microcontrollers, Prentice Hall of India, 2007
Ajay V Deshmukh, Microcontroller Theory and Applications, Tata McGraw
Hill,2007
12

PRACTICALS
07PE205 POWER ELECTRONICS AND DRIVES LABORATORY
L
0

(Any 10 Experiments)

T
0

P
3

M
100

LIST OF EXPERIMENTS
1

Analysis of Dual Converter Fed DC Motor Drive

Chopper Fed DC Drive

DSP controlled AC drive

Performance study of Stator Voltage Controlled Induction Motor Drive

Analysis of Vector Controlled Induction Motor Drive

Harmonic Analysis of Converter Fed Drive

IGBT Based Three Phase PWM Inverter

IGBT Based Three Phase SVPWM Inverter

Simulation of Power Electronic Systems using PSpice

10 Modeling and Simulation of Electric Drives using MATLAB

Total

13

45

LIST OF ELECTIVES
For SEMESTER I (ELECTIVE I) (07PEE01 -07PEE03)
07PEE01 HIGH VOLTAGE DIRECT CURRENT TRANSMISSION

LT P M
3 0 0 100

(Common to Power Electronics & Drives and Power System Engineering)

UNIT - I

GENERAL ASPECTS

(9)

Historical development of HVAC and DC links kinds of DC links-HVDC projects in

India and abroad advantages and disadvantages of HVDC transmission Applications of DC transmission economic factors development of power devices
for HVDC transmission thyristors light activated thyristors MOS controlled
thyristors (MCTs) Switching and steady state characteristicsCooling of Thyristors
Problem.
UNIT - II

THYRISTOR CONVERTERS

(9)

Three phase fully controlled thyristor bridge converters operation as rectifiers and
line commutated inverters converter equivalent circuits parameters and
characteristics of rectifiers and inverters series and parallel arrangement of
thyristors multibridge converters.
UNIT - III

CONTROL OF CONVERTERS AND REACTIVE POWER CONTROL

(9)

Gate control basic means of control and modes of operation power reversal
desired features of control control characteristics constant current control
constant extinction angle control stability of control tap changer control power
control and current limits. Reactive Power Requirements Reactive Power Control
during Steady State and Transients
UNIT - IV

PROTECTION OF HVDC SYSTEMS, HARMONICS, FILTERS

AND GROUND RETURN

(9)

Basics of protection of HVDC systems DC reactors voltage and current

oscillations DC line oscillations clearing line faults and re-energizing the line
circuit breakers over voltage protection -Characteristics and uncharacteristic
harmonics troubles caused by harmonics means of reducing harmonics
harmonic filters Corona and Radio interference- ground return and ground
Electrodes
UNIT - V

SIMULATION OF HVDC SYSTEMS

(9)

Introduction System Simulation: Philosophy and Tools HVDC System Simulation

Modeling of HVDC Systems for Digital Dynamic Simulation Digital Dynamic
Simulation of Converters and DC Systems
Reference Books
Total 45
1
2
3
4

Kimbark E.X., Direct Current Transmission, Vol. I, Wiley Interscience, New

York 1971
Allan Greenwood, Electrical Transients in Power Systems, John Wiley and
Sons New York, 1992
Kory(ed) B. J., High Voltage Direct Current Converters and Systems.
Macdonald & Co, London 1995
Adamson and Hingorani N.G., High Voltage Direct Current Power
Transmission, Garraway ltd., England, 1960.
14

07PEE02 NON CONVENTIONAL ENERGY SOURCES

LT P M
3 0 0 100

(Common to Power Electronics & Drives and Power System Engineering)

UNIT - I

SOLAR ENERGY

(9)

Introduction to solar energy: solar radiation, availability, measurement and estimation

Solar thermal conversion devices and storage solar cells and photovoltaic
conversion PV systems MPPT. Applications of PV Systems solar energy
collectors ands storages.
UNIT - II

WIND ENERGY

(9)

Introduction Basic principles of wind energy conversion wind data and energy
estimation site selection consideration basic components of wind energy
conversion system Types of wind machines basic components of wind electric
conversion systems. Schemes for electric generations generator control, load
control, energy storage applications of wind energy Inter connected systems.
UNIT - III

CHEMICAL ENERGY SOURCES

(9)

Introduction fuel cells design and principles of operation of a fuel cell

classification of fuel cells. Types of fuel cells conversion efficiency of fuel cells.
Types of electrodes, work output and emf of fuel cell, Applications of fuel cells.
Hydrogen energy: Introduction hydrogen production electrolysis, thermochemical methods, Westing House Electro-chemical thermal sulphur cycle. Fossil
fuel methods. Hydrogen storage, Utilization of hydrogen gas.
UNIT - IV

ENERGY FROM OCEANS

(9)

Introduction, ocean thermal electric conversion (OTEC), methods of ocean thermal

electric power generation, open cycle OTEC system, closed OTEC cycle.
Energy from tides: Basic principles of tidal power, component of tidal power plants,
operation methods of utilization of tidal energy, site requirements, storage,
advantages and limitations of tidal power generation. Ocean waves, energy and
power from the waves, wave energy conversion devices.
UNIT - V

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

(9)

Introduction, estimation of geothermal power, nature of geothermal fields,

geothermal sources, inter connection of geothermal fossil systems, prime movers for
geo thermal energy conversion. Application of geothermal energy.
Energy from biomass: Introduction, Biomass conversion technologies,
photosynthesis, classification of biogas plants. Biomass Energy conversion, Energy
from waste.
Reference Books
1
2
3
4
5
6

Total

SP Sukatme, Solar Energy Principles of thermal collection and storage,

second edition, Tata McGraw Hill, 1991.
GD Rai, Non Conventional Energy Sources.
J.A. Duffie and W.A. Beckman, Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes,
Second Edition, John Wiley, New York, 1991.
D.Y. Goswami, F. Kreith and J.F. Kreider, Principles of Solar Engineering,
Taylor and Francis, Philadelphia, 2000.
D.D. Hall and R.P. Grover, Bio-Mass Regenerable Energy, John Wiley,
Newyork, 1987.
J. Twidell and T. Weir, Renewable Energy Resources, E&FN Spon Ltd.,
London, 1986.
15

45

07PEE03 SPECIAL ELECTRICAL MACHINES

LT P M
3 0 0 100

(Common to Power Electronics & Drives and Power System Engineering)

UNIT - I

STEPPING MOTOR

(9)

Constructional features - Principle of operation-Modes of excitation-Torque

production in Variable Reluctance (VR) stepping motor Dynamic characteristicsDrive systems and circuit for open loop control - Closed loop control of stepping
motor Application.
UNIT - II

SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR AND LINEAR INDUCTION

MOTOR

(9)

Constructional features Principle of operation Torque equation Power

controllers Characteristics and control Magnetic Levitation - Linear Induction
Motor-Applications.
UNIT - III

PERMANENT MAGNET DC MOTOR

(9)

Principles of PMDC motor Fundamentals of permanent magnets Kinds of

permanent magnets Structure of field system Armature structure Brushes and
commutator - Moving coil motors: classification Types Characteristics Disc
motors.
UNIT - IV

PERMANENT MAGNET BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR

(9)

Commutation in DC motors Difference between mechanical and electronic

commutators - Hall sensors Optical sensors Multiphase brushless motor
Square wave permanent magnet brushless motor drives Torque and EMF equation
Torque-Speed characteristics Controllers.
UNIT - V

PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR

(9)

Principle of operation EMF, power input and torque expressions Phasor diagram
Vector control Control strategies Flux weakening operation Speed controller
design - Sensorless control.
Total

45

Reference Books
1

Miller, T.J.E. Brushless Permanent Magnet and Reluctance Motor Drives,

Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989.

Kenjo.T and Naganori S. Permanent Magnet and Brushless DC Motors,

Clarendon Press, Oxford 1989.

Kenjo.T, Stepping Motors and their Microprocessor Control , Clarendon Press,

Oxford 1989.

Krishnan. R, Electric Motor Drives Pearson Prentice Hall, India, 2007.

Laithwaite, Induction Machines for special purposes

16

LIST OF ELECTIVES
For SEMESTER I (ELECTIVE II and ELECTIVE - III) (07PEE04 -07PEE09)
07PEE04

UNIT - I

COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENT TECHNIQUES

FUZZY LOGIC

L T
3 0

P
0

M
100
(10)

Introduction to Neuro Fuzzy and soft Computing Fuzzy Sets Basic Definition
and Terminology Set-theoretic operations Member Function Formulation and
parameterization Fuzzy Rules and Fuzzy Reasoning - Extension principle and
Fuzzy Relations Fuzzy If-Then Rules Fuzzy Reasoning Fuzzy Inference
Systems Mamdani Fuzzy Models-Sugeno Fuzzy Models Tsukamoto Fuzzy
Models Input Space Partitioning and Fuzzy Modeling.
UNIT - II

GENETIC ALGORITHM

(8)

Derivative-based Optimization Descent Methods The Method of steepest

Descent Classical Newtons Method Step Size Determination Derivative-free
Optimization Genetic Algorithms Simulated Annealing Random Search
Downhill Simplex Search.
UNIT - III

NEURAL NETWORKS

(10)

Introduction -Supervised Learning Neural Networks Perceptrons - Adaline Back

propagation Multilayer perceptrons Radial Basis Function Networks
Unsupervised Learning and Other Neural Networks Competitive Learning
Networks Kohonen Self Organizing Networks Learning Vector Quantization
Hebbian Learning.
UNIT - IV

NEURO FUZZY MODELING

(9)

Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems Architecture Hybrid Learning Algorithm

learning Methods that Cross-fertilize ANFIS and RBFN Coactive Neuro-Fuzzy
Modeling Framework Neuron Functions for Adaptive Networks Neuro Fuzzy
Spectrum.
UNIT - V

APPLICATIONS

(8)

Printed Character Recognition Inverse Kinematics Problems Automobile Fuel

Efficiency prediction Soft Computing for Color Recipe Prediction Introduction to
power system and electronics applications (Qualitative treatment only)
Reference Books

Total 45

J.S.R.Jang, C.T.Sun and E.Mizutani, Neuro-Fuzzy and Soft Computing, PHI,

Pearson Education 2004.

Davis E.Goldberg,Genetic Algorithms : Search, Optimization and Machine

Learning Addison Wesley, N.Y.,1989.

S.Rajasekaran and G.A.V.Pai,Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic

Algorithms,PHI, 2003.

R.Eberhart, P.simpson and R.Dobbins, Computational Intelligence PC Tools,

AP Professional, Boston 1996.
17

07PEE05
UNIT - I

POWER QUALITY ENGINEERING

L T
3 0

INTRODUCTION

P
0

M
100
(6)

Definitions Power quality, Voltage quality Power quality issues : Short duration voltage
variations, Long duration voltage variations, Transients, Waveform distortion, Voltage
imbalance, Voltage fluctuation, Power frequency variations, low power factor Sources and
Effects of power quality problems Power quality terms Power quality and Electro
Magnetic Compatibility (EMC) Standards.

UNIT - II

SHORT INTERRUPTIONS & LONG INTERRUPTIONS

(10)

Introduction Origin of short interruptions : Voltage magnitude events due to re-closing,

Voltage during the interruption Monitoring of short interruptions Influence on induction
motors, Synchronous motors, Adjustable speed drives, Electronic equipments Single
phase tripping : Voltage during fault and post fault period, Current during fault period
Prediction of short Interruptions.
Definition Failure, Outage, Interruption Origin of interruptions Causes of long
interruptions Principles of regulating the voltage Voltage regulating devices, Applications
: Utility side, End-User side Reliability evaluation Cost of interruptions.

UNIT - III

VOLTAGE SAG & TRANSIENTS

(10)

Introduction Definition Magnitude, Duration Causes of Voltage Sag Three Phase

Unbalance Phase angle jumps Load influence on voltage sags on Adjustable speed
drives, Power electronics loads, Sensitive loads - Stochastic assessment of voltage sags Overview of mitigation methods. Definition Power system transient model Principles of
over voltage protection - Types and causes of transients Devices for over voltage
protection - Capacitor switching transients Lightning transients Transients from load
switching.

UNIT - IV

WAVEFORM DISTORTION, WIRING AND GROUNDING

(10)

Introduction Definition and terms Harmonics, Harmonics indices, Inter harmonics,

Notching Voltage Vs Current distortion Harmonics Vs Transients Sources and effects
of harmonic distortion System response characteristics Principles of controlling
harmonics Standards and limitation - Definitions and terms Reasons for grounding
National Electrical Code (NEC) grounding requirements Utility Power system grounding
End-User power system grounding Wiring and grounding problems.

UNIT - V

POWER QUALITY SOLUTIONS

(9)

Introduction Power quality monitoring : Need for power quality monitoring, Evolution of
power quality monitoring, Deregulation effect on power quality monitoring Power factor
improvement Brief introduction to power quality measurement equipments and power
conditioning equipments Planning, Conducting and Analyzing power quality survey
Mitigation and control techniques - Active Filters for Harmonic Reduction

Reference Books
1
2
3
4
5
6

Total 45

Roger C. Dugan, Mark F. McGranaghan and H.Wayne Beaty, "Electrical Power

Systems Quality", McGraw-Hill, New York, 2nd Edition, 2002.
Barry W.Kennedy, Power Quality Primer, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000.
Sankaran.C, "Power Quality", CRC Press, Washington, D.C., 2002
Math H.J.Bollen, "Understanding Power Quality Problems: Voltage Sags and
Interruptions", IEEE Press, New York, 2000.
Arrillaga.J, Watson.N.R and Chen.S, "Power System Quality Assessment", John Wiley
& Sons Ltd., England, 2000
Short.T.A., Distribution Reliability and Power Quality, CRC Press Taylor and Francis
Group, 2006.

18

07PEE06

UNIT - I

FLEXIBLE AC TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS

INTRODUCTION

L T
3 0

P
0

M
100
(9)

FACTS-a toolkit, Principles of Reactive Power Control in load and transmission line
Compensation Series and Shunt compensation Concepts of FACTS - Basic
concepts of Static VAR compensator, Resonance damper, Thyristor controlled series
capacitor, Static condenser, Phase angle regulator, and other controllers.
UNIT - II

SERIES COMPENSATION SCHEMES

(9)

Sub-Synchronous resonance, Torsional interaction, torsional torque, Compensation

of conventional, ASC, NGH damping schemes, Modeling and control of thyristor
controlled series compensators.
UNIT - III

STATIC VAR COMPENSATION

(9)

Basic concepts, Thyristor Controlled Reactor (TCR), Thyristor Switched Reactor

(TSR), Thyristor Switched Capacitor (TSC), Saturated Reactor (SR), Fixed Capacitor
(FC).
UNIT - IV

UNIFIED POWER FLOW CONTROL

(9)

Introduction, Implementation of power flow control using conventional thyristors,

Unified power flow concept, Implementation of unified power flow controller
UNIT - V

DESIGN OF FACTS CONTROLLERS

(9)

Approximate multi-model decomposition, Variable structure FACTS controllers for

Power system transient stability, Non-linear variable-structure control, variable
structure series capacitor control, and variable structure resistor control Simulation
and study of FACTS under dynamic conditions.
Reference Books
1
2
3
4

6
7
8

Total 45

Narin G.Hingorani, Flexible AC Transmission , IEEE Spectrum, April 1993, pp

40- 45.
Narin G. Hingorani, High Power Electronics and Flexible AC Transmission
Systems IEEE High Power Engineering Review, 1998.
Narin G.Hingorani, Power Electronics in Electric Utilities : Role of Power
Electronics in future power systems , Proc. Of IEEE, Vol.76, no.4, April 1988.
Mohan Mathur.P., Rajiv K. Varma, Thyristor based FACTS controllers for
Electrical Transmission Systems, John Wiley and Sons Inc., IEEE Press, USA,
2002.
Einar V.Larsen, Juan J. Sanchez-Gasca, Joe H.Chow, Concepts for design of
FACTS Controllers to damp power swings , IEEE Trans On Power Systems,
Vol.10, No.2, May 1995.
Gyugyi L., Unified power flow control concept for flexible AC transmission ,
IEEE Proc-C Vol.139, No.4, July 1992.
K.R. Padiyar, FACTS Controllers for Power Transmission and Distribution New
Age International Publishers, 2007.
Narain G.Hingorani, Laszio Gyugyi, Understanding FACTS concept and
Technology, Standard Publisher, Delhi, 2001.

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07PEE07

UNIT - I

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION AND NETWORKS

L T
3 0

COMPUTER NETWORKS

P
0

M
100
(9)

Evolution of data networks, Network architecture, ISO Reference model examples of

networks, Application of networks, Physical layer, and communication medium
characteristics.
UNIT - II

MEDIUM ACCESS SUB LAYER AND DATA LINK LAYER

(9)

Local area networks, conventional channel allocation methods, pure-ALOHA, SALOHA, Finite population ALOHA, Controlled ALOHA, Reservation ALOHA, Design
issues for packet radio networks IEEE Standard for LAN-Ethernet: CSMA/CD LAN,
Token passing ring. Data link layer design issues Service primitives Stop and
wait Sliding window protocols Comparison of stop and wait and sliding window
protocols.
UNIT - III

NETWORK AND TRANSPORT LAYERS

(9)

Network layer design issues Routing algorithm - Congestion control algorithms

internetworking. Transport layer design issues Connection management A
simple transport protocol on top of X.25.
UNIT - IV

QUEUING THEORY AND CAPACITY ASSIGNMENT

(9)

M/M/I Queues/G/I Queues, priority queuing capacity assignment for terminal

networks and distributed networks, concentration and buffering for finite and infinite
buffers ad block storage.
UNIT - V

PRESENTATION LAYER AND APPLICATION LAYER

(9)

Design issues Abstract syntax notation Data compression techniques

Cryptography Remote procedure call - Design Issues File transfer access and
management, Electronic mail Virtual terminals Other applications.
Reference Books

Total 45

Andrew S.Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall of

India,2003.

D.Bertsekas and R.Gallager, Data networks, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall of India,
2003.

Godbole and Kahate, Computer Communication Networks (Ascent Series),

McGraw Hill, 2003.

M.Schwartz, Computer Communications, Tata McGraw Hill, 2002.

Achyut S Godbole, Data Communications and Networking, Tata McGraw Hill,

2002.

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07PEE08
UNIT - I

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

L T
3 0

P
0

PROJECT MANAGEMENT & SYSTEMS AND PROCEDURES

M
100
(9)

Need Goals- Evolution-different forms-project management in manufacturing,

service and government sectors; Systems development cycle project life cycle
conception phase: proposal , contracting definition phase execution phase:
production / build, implementation operation phase- case study.Tools for project
planning work break down structure, responsibility matrix, events and mile stones,
Gantt charts.
UNIT - II

NETWORK SCHEDULING & PERT NETWORK

(9)

Network Diagram critical path late times nslack float calender

scheduling.Time estimates probability of finishing by target completion date
meeting the target simulating PERT network - - criticisms of PERT ; CPM Time
cost relationship reducing project duration shortest duration total project cost
scheduling with resource constraints resource loading and leveling constrained
resources: Introduction to GERT network, class studies in PERT/CPM.
UNIT - III

PROJECT COST ESTIMATION

(9)

Process classification-expert opinion, analogy, parametric estimate, cost

engineering- example: Contingency amount ; Elements of budgets and Estimates
direct labour, direct non-labour, overhead, general and administrative expenses,
profit and total billing; Project cost accounting and management information system
cost summaries, cost schedules and forecasts case study.
UNIT - IV

PROJECT CONTROL

(9)

Cost accounting systems- project control process; Project control emphasis scope
change control, quality control, schedule control, time buffers; Performance Analysis
cost, schedule, work package analysis, performance indices, updating time
estimates, technical performance measurement; Performance Index monitoring
variance limits, controlling changes, contract administration, control problems, case
study.
UNIT - V

PROJECT MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (PMIS)&

PROJECT EVALUATION:

(9)

Functions Computer based PMI Systems Web-Based project management.

Review meetings, reporting, terminating, termination responsibilities, closing the
contract, project extensions, project summary evaluation.
Reference Books
1
2
3
4
5
6
7

Total 45

John M Nicholas, Project Management for Business and Technology, Prentice Hall
India Pvt Ltd., New Delhi, 2002.
Anastasia Pagnoni, Project Engineering Computer Oriented Planning and
Operational Decision Making
Springer Verlag, 1990
Parameshwar P Iyer, Engineering Project Mangement with case Studies, Wheeler
Publishing, 1996
Dennis Lock, The Essentials of Project Management, Gower Punlishing Ltd., 1996
Vasant Desai, Project Management, Himalaya Publishing House, 2001
Joseph Phillips, IT Project Management On Track from Start to Finsh, TMH, 2002

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UNIT - I

ADVANCES IN POWER ELECTRONICS

RESONANT CONVERTERS

L T
0

P
0

M
100
(10)

Zero voltage and Zero current switching Classification of resonant converters Basic resonant circuit concepts - Load resonant converters - Resonant switch
converters - Zero voltage switching, clamped voltage topologies -Resonant DC link
Inverters and Zero voltage switching - High frequency link integral half cycle
converters - Applications in SMPS and lighting.
UNIT - II

IMPROVED UTILITY INTERFACE

(10)

Generation of current harmonics Current harmonics and power factor - Harmonic

standards and recommended practices - Need for improved utility interface Improved single phase utility interface - Improved three phase utility interface Electromagnetic interference
UNIT - III

FACTS

(9)

Introduction - Principles of reactive power control in load and transmission line

compensation - Series and shunt reactive power compensation - Concepts of
Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) - Static var compensators (SVC) Thyristor controlled reactor - Thyristor switched capacitor - Solid state power control
- Static condensers - Controllable series compensation - Thyristor controlled phaseangle regulator and unified power flow control.
UNIT - IV

MODELING AND ANALYSIS

(8)

Modeling and methods of analysis of SVC and FACTS controllers - System control
and protection - Harmonics and filters Simulation and study of SVC and FACTS
under dynamic conditions.
UNIT - V

EMERGING DEVICES AND CIRCUITS

(8)

Power Junction Field Effect Transistors - Field Controlled Thyristors - JFET based
devices Vs other power devices - MOS controlled thyristors - Power integrated
circuits - New semiconductor materials for power devices.
Reference Books
1

3
4

5
6

Total 45

Ned Mohan., Undeland and Robbins, " Power Electronics: Converters,

Applications and Design ", John Wiley and Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, Singapore,
2003.
Rashid, M.H., Power Electronics Circuits, Devices and Applications, Pearson
Education (Singapore) Pte. Ltd, New Delhi, 2004./ Prentice Hall of India, New
Delhi.
Joseph Vithayathil., Power Electronics, Mc-Graw Hill series in Electrical and
Computer Engineering, USA, 1995.
Mohan Mathur P, Rajiv K Varma, Thyristor Based Facts Controllers for
Electrical Transmission Systems, John Wiley and Sons Inc., IEEE Press,USA,
2002.
Roger C Dugan, Maric F Mcgranaghan, Electrical Power System Quality,
Mc-Graw Hill Inc, New York, 1996.
Bimal K Bose, Modern Power Electronics Evolution, Technology and
application, Jaico Publishing House, Mumbai, 2006.

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