Course Content
High Power Electronic Converters: High-Power Semiconductor Devices, Multi- Pulse Converters, Multilevel Cascaded H-Bridge Converters, Multilevel Diode-Clamped Inverter, Modular Multilevel Converter, Other Multilevel Voltage Source Converters, Current Source Inverters, Pulse width modulation techniques (SPWM, hysteresis, SVM), Harmonic Reduction Techniques. Transmission Applications: Reactive Compensation for Power Flow Control, Shunt Compensation, Series Compensation, Phase Angle Regulators, Combined Series/Shunt Compensators, Control and Harmonic Interactions, Enhancing Stability, Large Scale Storage with Power Electronic Interface. Distribution Applications: Power and Voltage Quality, Load Balancing using passive elements, Instantaneous PQ theory, Stationary frame (αβ-frame), and synchronous frame (dq-frame) representations of three-phase VSC systems, Open-loop and Closed-loop control of Power Converters, Distribution Shunt Compensation, Distribution Series Compensation, Unified Power Quality Conditioner, Static Transfer Switches and Solid State Circuit Breakers, Hybrid Circuit Breakers, Fault Current Limiters, Active Filters.
Text / References
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