ECE 464 - Power Electronics

Summer 2009 | Fall 2009 | Spring 2010 | Summer 2010
Section Type Times Days Location Instructor
B DIS 0900 - 0950 M W F   165 Everitt Lab  Philip Krein

Web Page http://courses.ece.uiuc.edu/ece464/
Official Description Switching functions and methods of control such as pulse-width modulation, phase control, and phase modulation; dc-dc, ac-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac power converters; power components, including magnetic components and power semiconductor switching devices. Prerequisite: ECE 442.
Hours 3 hours.
Subject Area Power and Energy Systems
Course Prerequisites Credit in ECE 442
Course Directors Philip T Krein
Description Fundamentals of circuits for electrical energy processing. Discusses power electronics as a vital enabler for future energy. Switching converter principles, harmonics, pulse-width modulation, phase control, and phase modulation, dc-dc, ac-dc, and dc-ac, power converters. Alternative and renewable energy applications. High-performance power supply circuits. Power components, including capacitors, magnetic components and power semiconductor switching devices. Considerations in solar, wind, and fuel cell power.
Credit 3 hours
Goals To develop all major power electronics concepts, from both systems and components perspectives. To present major design considerations for switching power conversion, including operation and control choices, harmonics and filtering, circuit models of real sources and devices, magnetics design, and passive and active component behavior.
Topics
  • Background: electricity conversion needs, history, the switch matrix
  • Switch matrix operation and representation: circuit laws as constraints, switch types and examples, control alternatives
  • dc-dc converters and applications. High-performance power supplies.
  • ac-dc/dc-ac converters and alternative energy applications. Introduction to hybrid cars, solar energy, wind systems, and fuel cells.
  • Models for real sources and loads, power filters for source interfaces
  • Real capacitors and their applications in converters
  • Magnetics for power electronics applications
  • Power electronic switching devices: sources of loss and basic thermal calculations, typical power switch types and models
Computer Usage A variety of analytical and simulation examples.
Lab Projects See ECE 469.
Course Prerequisites ECE 442
Topical Prerequisities
  • Introductory linear systems
  • Electronic circuits and devices
Texts P. T. Krein, Elements of Power Electronics, Oxford Univ. Press.
ABET Category Engineering Science: 2 credits
Engineering Design: 1 credit