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Book: Power Electronics and Motor Control.

Authors: W. Shepherd et al

Edition: IInd

Ed.

Suggested sections for ELEC 482

Chapter 1: Power Switching Theory.

1.1 Power flow control by switches.

1.2 Attributes of an ideal switch.

1.3 Sources of incidental dissipation in imperfect switches.1.4 Estimation of switching dissipation.

1.5 Modifications of switching dissipation-switching aids. (Only the introduction. Read sections 1.5.1

and 1.5.2 if only interested).

1.7 Transfer of incidental dissipation to ambient-thermal considerations. Only up to and includingequation 1.46.

Example 1.1.

Chapter 2: Switching devices and control electrode requirements.

2.1 Rating, safe operating area and power handling capability of devices. Only subsections 2.1.1 (PHC)

and 2.1.3 (SOA).

2.2 Semiconductor switching devices. 2.2.1.1: only first paragraph. 2.2.1.4 (C). 2.2.2.2.3 Compound devices. 2.3.1.1. 2.3.1.2. 2.3.2 (read equations 2.11- 2.17 only if required to enhance

understanding of the regenerative turn-on process, and read 2.3.2.1(D) if only interested). 2.4.

Chapter 3: System Realisation.

Examples 3.1 and 3.2.

Chapter 4: Adjustable speed drives.

4.1 Basic elements of a drive.4.2 Load torque-speed characteristics.

4.3 Stability of drive operations.

Chapter 5: D.C. motor control using a d.c. chopper.

5.1 Basic equations for motor operation.5.2 DC chopper drives.

5.3 Worked Examples.

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Chapter 6: Controlled bridge rectifiers with d.c. motor load.

6.1 The principles of rectification.6.2 Separately excited d.c. motor with rectified single-phase supply (up to and including equation 6.9

only).

Example 6.1.6.3 Separately excited d.c. motor with rectified three-phase supply (up to and including equation 6.46

only in 6.3.2.1 and exclude 6.3.2.2 and 6.3.2.3).

Examples 6.4, 6.5 and 6.8.

Chapter 7: Three-phase naturally commutated bridge circuit as a rectifier or inverter.

7.1 Three-phase controlled bridge rectifier with passive load impedance (only up to and includingequation 7.12 in sub-section 7.1.1, and only up to and including equation (7.54) in sub-section 7.1.2 ).

7.2 Three-phase controlled bridge rectifier-converter.

Examples 7.8, 7.9 and 7.10.

Chapter 9: Three-phase induction motor with constant frequency supply.

9.1 Three-phase induction motor with sinusoidal three phase voltages.

9.3 Three-phase induction motor voltage control by electronic switching (up to and including the

description of Fig. 9.14).

Chapter 10: Induction motor slip-energy recovery.

10.1 Three-phase induction motor with injected secondary voltage.10.2 Induction motor slip-energy recovery (SER) system (Only the introduction section).

Chapter 11: Induction motor speed control by the use of adjustable voltage, adjustable frequency

step-wave inverters.

11.1 Three-phase induction motor with controlled sinusoidal supply voltages of adjustable frequency.

Worked examples 11.1 and 11.2.11.2 Three-phase, step-wave voltage source inverters with passive load impedance (exclude sub-section

11.2.5.2). Worked example 11.3.

11.3 Three-phase, step-wave voltage source inverters with induction motor load. Worked examples 11.6and 11.7.

Chapter 12: Induction motor speed control by the use of adjustable voltage, adjustable frequency

step-wave inverters.

Introduction.12.1.3 Sinusoidal modulation.

12.1.4 Optimal pulse-width modulation (harmonic elimination).

12.2 Three-phase induction motor controlled by PWM voltage source inverter (VSI). Example 12.5.