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ELEC5207: Advanced Power Conversion Technologies

The unit aims to cover advanced topics in power electronics and it applications. In particular, the power electronics interface design and implementation for microgrid, smart grids and modern power systems which have received tremendous attention in recent years. Many countries including Australia are developing different power electronics technologies such as integrating renewable energy sources into the grid, managing charging and discharging of high power energy storage system, controlling the reactive power of power electronics interfaces for grid stability, and adding communication capability to power electronics interfaces for smart meter implementation. The unit assumes prior fundamental knowledge of power electronics systems and applications, including the ability to analyse basic power converters for all four conversions (ac-ac, ac-dc, dc-ac, and ac-dc), and design and implement various applications, such as motor drive and battery charger, with the consideration of electrical characteristics of semiconductors and passive elements. This unit will cover advanced technologies on power electronics interfaces for smart grids and microgrid implementation, which include dynamic voltage restorer, active power filter, reactive power compensation, energy storage management, hybrid energy sources optimisation, multilevel inverter and control, D-STATCOM, etc. To analyse these advanced power conversion systems, some analytical techniques will be introduced. This includes resonant converters, soft-switching technique, ac equivalent circuit modeling, converter control and input/output filter design.

Code ELEC5207
Academic unit Electrical and Information Engineering
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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ELEC3204

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. Do dynamic modeling and control of power converters
  • LO2. Design power factor correction
  • LO3. Design soft swtiching in power electronics
  • LO4. Analyze and design bidirectional power conversion
  • LO5. Design power electronics and control engineering for solar PV power generation
  • LO6. Develop advanced simulation skill to prove concept of power conversion and control
  • LO7. Develop a deeper understanding of practical control engineering for power electronics