Guest Lecture on ' Recent Trends in Power Electronics' conducted online mode on 14.10.2023 at Thanam Hall, by the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering This guest lecture is for third-year EEE students for the course U21EE502- Power Electronics and Drives. They will help students to know the concepts of power electronics and recent trends in power electronics circuits and their applications. The following topics were covered during the webinar
Power Semiconductor Devices (SiC and GaN)
Gate driver circuit design
IGCT and GTO features
Power converter and matrix converter
Microgrid
Low voltage power electronic devices and real-time applications.
Implementation of microgrids in villages
Power quality and their issues such as harmonics, sag, swell and transients, flicker
Passive and active filters
CDAC projects and R.& D sections involved in the projects on non-linear loads, unbalanced supply, and neutral current compensations
Active filters and their functions
Real-time implementation of CDAC projects in nearby villages in Kerela
Power electronic converter, inverter, chopper, and resonant converter applications
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