Assignment 6: Due Date: January 4, 2017

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Assignment 6

ECE 6331 Power Electronic Circuits


Due Date: January 4, 2017
Problem 1:
Draw detailed diagram of a closed-loop buck converter used as a voltage regulator to produce 5V
from 12V battery. Isolation is not required. Use voltage mode control with PWM to regulate the
output voltage to the desired value.
What is meant by current mode control?
Modify the above diagram to incorporate current mode control.

Problem 2:
The waveform shown on the right is
typical line current in a three-phase I0=10A
diode rectifier bridge. -p p
-p/3 +p/3 2p

a) Determine the RMS value of the current


b) Determine the THD of this waveform.
c) Determine the average input power if the input phase voltage is 100 cos(wt) (in phase with
the current).
d) Determine the rectifier input power factor.

Problem 3:
Problem 4:
It is desired to provide 12Vdc power to a 480W load from an input of 300Vdc.

1. Draw exact and detailed circuit for an isolated forward converter that will do the job.
Component values are not required, however transformer turns ratios must be provided.
What is the maximum voltage seen by the transistor?
2. Describe how the flux in the transformer core changes during switching?
3. Now repeat the solution using an isolated flyback converter topology. Component values
are not required, however transformer turns ratios must be provided. What is the
maximum voltage seen by the transistor?

Problem 5:
The boost converter shown in attached figure has input ranging from 15 to 40V and powers a
fixed load of 1kW at 100Vdc. While operating in CCM, the inductor current ripple is to be kept
below ±25% under all input voltage conditions.

a) Determine the min switching frequency for the component values shown.
b) Also determine the output voltage ripple while operating at 50kHz frequency.
c) If the switching frequency is fixed at 30kHz, determine the min inductance value that will
keep the converter in CCM with the same load and input voltage conditions.

Problem 6:
You are to design a single-phase full-wave PWM rectifier circuit with a dc output voltage of
24V±1%. The input is 50Hz, 12Vrms AC from a transformer. The load is equivalent of a 12
resistor. The PWM rectifier will consist of a diode bridge followed by a boost converter.
1. Draw the schematic of the PWM rectifier.
2. Determine the dc output filter capacitance value required to keep the ripple within
specified range.
3. Plot the inductor and switch current for fsw = 10kHz.
Problem 7:

In the following boost converter, assume all components to be ideal and let the switching
frequency be 100 kHz. Assume the following parameters;

Vd = 12 V
L = 330 µH
R=5Ω
Vo = 25 V

a. Determine if the converter is in CCM or DCM.


b. Plot the waveform for iL, iT, iD and iC under the given operating conditions.
c. What is the maximum voltage seen by the transistor T.
d. What is the maximum current seen by the capacitor C.
e. Power delivered by the input 12V source.
f. Compute the capacitor value C to ensure peak-peak output voltage ripple to be less than
1% of the dc output voltage.
g. Calculate the minimum load power in watts that will keep the converter in continuous
conduction mode (CCM).
h. Determine the value of L, for above circuit conditions, for which the converter operates at
the boundary of CCM.

Problem 8:

Consider a single phase bridge rectifier with input voltage and a 100µF
capacitor connected in parallel
with resistive load R = 50Ω.
a) Compute the average value
D1 D3
of the output voltage.
b) Find the peak-to-peak + 50ohm
ripple in the output voltage. vs(t)
100uF
Load
-
c) Draw approximate
waveforms to show the line D2 D4
voltage, input line current
and the dc output voltage
showing ripple.
Problem 9:
For a three-phase full-bridge rectifier using six thyristors, the input voltages are specified as
  
va = 100cost  , vb = 100cos t + 120 and va = 100cos t  120 

100 mH
+

T5
T3
T1
Va

2 ohm
Vb Vo
Vc

T4

T6
T2
_

a. Determine the firing sequence of the thyristors.


b. For a firing delay angle α=30o, plot gate pulses for thyristor T1.
c. Plot the current through T4.
d. Plot the voltage across T4.
e. Plot the output voltage.
f. Plot the voltage across 100mH load inductor.
g. Determine the peak and average current in T4.
h. Determine the rms value of line current.
i. Determine the real input power (Watts).
j. Determine the apparent input power (VA).
k. Determine the power factor.

Problem 10:
The input to the bridge rectifier 50μH
shown is a balanced 3-phase 50 Hz,
50kV l-l rms voltage. The goal is to
Va(t)
store energy in the 100uF capacitor Vb(t) 100μF
connected at the output. Vc(t)
Determine:

a. Maximum energy that can be stored in the capacitor.


b. Time needed for the capacitors to charge to full energy level with 1A charging current
c. Firing delay angle ‘’ of the thyristors, as a function of time, which will charge the
capacitor at a fixed current of 1A. (the output voltage will be a ramp in time, i.e. will
rise with a constant rate as computed in part b )
d. The power drawn from the 3-phase source during charging.
e. Average current in any of the thyristors.
Problem 11:
The input to the single-phase bridge
rectifier shown in the attached figure is T1 T3

100cos(314t) corresponding to 50Hz . vi(t) = +


Io
The output is terminated on a fixed DC 100cos(314t) vo
-
current source Io.
T2 T4

a. Derive equation for the average output voltage Vo = ‹vo(t)› as a function of the firing delay
angle ‘α’ of the thyristors.
b. Plot the firing pulses for T1, T2 and T3 with respect to the input sinusoidal voltage.
c. Plot the output voltage vo(t) for a firing delay angle of α= 45o.
d. Plot the voltage across thyristor T1 for the conditions in ‘c’ above.
e. What is the maximum voltage seen by any of the thyristors?
f. Plot the current through thyristor T1 for the conditions in ‘c’ above.
g. Determine the average current in thyristor T1.
h. What is the maximum current experienced by any of the thyristors?
i. Determine the power drawn from the AC source if Io = 10A.
j. Determine the input power factor for the conditions in ‘c’ above.

Problem 12:

Consider a full-bridge inverter, powered from 100V dc, used to generate 100 kHz AC. The load
is pure 100μH inductor. The transistors are operated with 50% duty cycle producing a square-
wave output.
a) Determine and plot the current in the
load assuming 2.5A initial value in the S1 S3

arrow direction and S2-S3 pair turns on 100V 1000


100μH
first followed by S1-S4. μF
S2 S4
b) How much power is being delivered to
the load
c) Compute average transistor current
d) Compute average diode current
e) Plot the voltage across and current in S1 and therefore compute the switching loss if turn-
on time is 25ns and turn-off time is 50ns. Assume the current falls and rises at a constant
rate during switching operation.
Problem 13:
A PWM inverter is used to provide sinusoidal voltage in a UPS. An LC low-pass filter is used at
the output to filter out unwanted harmonics and hence produce a clean 50Hz voltage. If the
switching frequency is 20kHz,
a) Plot the harmonic spectrum of the inverter output voltage
b) Compute L and C to provide the required filtering.
c) The inverter, in one case, is to be used to power a 1A load and, in another case, a 10A
load. Comment on the choice of the inductor value suitable for each case.

Problem 14:
A single-phase, voltage sourced, full-bridge PWM inverter shown in the figure is used to
produce sinusoidal voltage in a UPS. An L-C low-pass filter is used at the output to filter out
unwanted harmonics and hence produce a clean 50Hz voltage. The switching frequency is 20
kHz.

a. Plot the approximate harmonic S1 S3


spectrum of the inverter output voltage C

b. Given L = 1mH choose ‘C’ to reduce 300V 220


1mH
µF
the switching harmonics in the output S2 S4
vo
voltage by at least 60dB.
c. Give one advantage and one
disadvantage of PWM method compared with fundamental frequency switching VSI.

Problem 15:

a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

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