Power Systems and Power Electronics

The course content for ANU’s ENGN4625/6625 can be found here. The power electronics sections are based on the lecture notes by Bruce Erickson, and the power systems ones are based on the lecture notes by James Kirtley.

For more information it is recommended that the students check out the following text books:

• Erickson, Robert W., and Dragan Maksimovic. Fundamentals of power electronics. Springer Science & Business Media, 2007.

• Kirtley, James L. Electric power principles: sources, conversion, distribution and use. John Wiley & Sons, 2020.

One way to describe this course is to call it an introduction to Power Processing in the same way that we might have heard the word signal processing. It is about understanding, analysing, and designing systems that make it possible to transfer power from a source to users. We rely on our understanding of electric circuit theory to make sense of this process.

Steady State Analysis of Converters

• Principles of Steady-State Converter Analysis
• Equivalent Circuit Model of Steady-State Converter
• Realising Switches Using Semi-conductor Devices
• Converter Circuit Manipulation

Power Systems Principles

• AC Voltage, Current, and Power
• Polyphase Systems
• Transformers
• Polyphase Lines and Single-phase Equivalents

Appendix

• An RLC low pass filter
• Discontinuous Conduction Mode (DCM)