Course Objectives: To understand the concepts of industrial electronics, to enable selection an design of industrial electronic appliances

Introduction: Review of solid state devices, Switch characteristics and their comparison, Semi?conductor materials.

Industrial Electronic converters: Phase controllers, Dual converters, Choppers, Cyclo?converters, Inverters, Power Supplies, Multivibrators, Switching Transistors and Timers.

Design of Industrial Electronic Devices: Design and analysis of electromagnetic control of electric drives, Their characteristics, Operating modes, Motor Control, Heating and Welding Control, Opto-electronics and Optical Fibres, Servomotors and their applications.

Industrial application of Industrial Electronic Devices: Control of electric drives used in manufacturing and process industries, Protection of electric drives using solid state devices and controllers, Analysis of drive systems.

Testing for drive controllers: Design and testing of microprocessor based drive controllers, Analysis of solid state control of industrial drives, Design and testing of thyristor based controllers for electric drives.

A C Power Conditioner: Introduction and applications

Course Outcomes: After the completion of this course the student will be able to:

• acquire knowledge about solid state devices

• understand working and design Industrial Electronic converters and devices

• apply the acquired knowledge of Industrial application of industrial electronic devices and their control

• learn the testing and design for drive controllers,microprocessor based drive controllers and their Analysis

• acquire knowledge of a c power conditioner and applications

Recommended Books

1. Biswanath, P., Industrial Electronics and Control, Prentice Hall of India (2003).

2. Biswas, S.N., Industrial Electronics, DhanpatRai and Co. (P) Ltd. (2004).