Industrial Electronics

Outline Syllabus:

• Definition and history of industrial electronics
• Electrostatic transducers of electrical energy
• Applications of industrial electronics in industry
• Structure of thyristors and their operation and characteristic curves
• Control circuits for thyristors and their protection
• Structure and operation of diacs and triacs
• Power transistors and their characteristics in on and off applications
• Darlington circuits in power engineering
• Current converters
• Half wave single phase converters
• Converters as rectifiers with ohmic loads
• Inductive loads and general loads
• Shapes of the load current and voltage
• Determination of extinguishing angle
• Converters as inverter
• Half wave multiphase converters

Credits: 3

Pre-requisites:

• Electronics II

Co-requisites:

• None