1. Introduction to Power Electronics.
1.1. Fundamentals of Power Electronics.
1.2. Typical applications of Power Electronics.
2. Electric Concepts
2.1. Average Value (avg) and Root Mean Square Value (rms) of a sinusoidal signal.
2.2. Average Value (avg) and Root Mean Square Value (rms) of a non-sinusoidal signal
2.3. Fourier Series of periodic waveforms.
2.4. Instant power, active power, reactive power and aparent power.
2.5. Quality factors of the electric energy conversion: Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), Ripple Factor, Power Factor.
3. Electric components and power electronic devices.
3.1. Passive components: resistor, inductor, capacitor and transformer.
3.2. Power Semiconductors: Diode, MOSFET, IGBT. Static characteristics and conduction power losses models.
4. DC-DC Converters.
4.1 Introduction to power supplies.
4.2 Basic DC-Dc converters without galvanic Isolation.
4.2.1 Buck converter.
4.2.2 Boost converter.
4.2.3 Buck-Boost converter.
4.3 DC-DC converters with galvanic Isolation.
4.3.1 Flyback converter.
4.3.2 Full-Bridge converter.
4.3.3 Dual-Active-Bridge converter
5. DC-AC Inverters.
5.1 Introduction to DC-AC inverters.
5.2 Topologies
5.2.1 Half-Bridge.
5.2.2 Full-Bridge.
5.2.3 Three-phase Bridge.
5.3 Sinusoidal PWM Modulation.
5.3.1 Basic concepts of modulation
5.3.1 Single phase bipolar PWM modulation
5.3.2 Single phase unipolar PWM modulation
5.3.3 Three-phase bipolar PWM modulation
5.4 Load types
5.4.1 L filter and resistive load
5.4.2 LC filter and resistive load
5.4.3 Grid-tied inverter with L filter.
6. CA-CC Rectifiers and PFC
6.1 Introduction to rectifiers. Current harmonics.
6.2 Line commutated rectifiers: C and LC filters.
6.3 Single-phase Boost PFC with Boundary Conduction Mode (BCM) operation.
6.4 Three-phase Boost PFC.
7. Thermal Management of power converters
7.1 Power losses and efficiency calculations.
7.2 Heat-sink design.