Course detail

Power Supply Systems

FEKT-BNEZAcad. year: 2012/2013

This course is focused on technology of power supplies and their applications. The course is divided into three parts: lectures, computer, and laboratory exercises. Theoretical knowledge, methodology, and design concepts of power supplies are subject of lectures. Practical design of power supplies is solved in computer exercises using circuit simulators and web-based tools (simulation of rectifiers, linear and switched supplies, selection of control circuits and components, and design of protection circuits). Laboratory exercises are focused on power supply measurement (mainly: load characteristic, efficiency, and scope measurements), design and construction of linear stabilizer and DC/DC converter.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Michal Kubíček, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Radio Electronics (UREL)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Students obtain the practical and theoretical knowledge about design of conventional and switching power supplies, the application of modern integrated circuits, and the magnetic circuit calculation.

Prerequisites

The subject knowledge on the elementary electronics is requested.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Student must to pass out all laboratory and computer practices, he must to elaborate and deliver all protocols.

Course curriculum

Autonomous power supplies (properties and principles of operation of accumulators, solar and fuel cells)
Controlled rectifiers, AC switches (controlled by triac and thyristor)
Linear stabilizers of voltage and current (with discrete parts and ICs)
Switched power supplies (bridge converters, push-pull, resonant)
Electronic parts for power supplies (fast switching diodes, FET, IGBT and MCT transistors, integrated circuits, voltage and current references).

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

This course is markedly practical oriented. The aim is to teach students how to design both linear and switched power supplies (using modern parts) according to specifications. Such power supplies are used as sub-blocks of complex systems that are designed by students during their work on bachelor and master thesis and later also in technical praxis.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

NOVOTNÝ, V., VOREL, P., PATOČKA, M. Napájení elektronických zařízení, Skriptum VUT v Brně, Brno, 2004. (CS)

Recommended reading

KREJČIŘÍK, A. Napájecí zdroje I až III. BEN - technická literatura, Praha, 1996 - 2000. (CS)
STABROWSKI, M. Stabilizátory stejnosměrného napětí a proudu. SNTL, Praha, 1975. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme EECC Bc. Bachelor's

    branch B-TLI , 3 year of study, winter semester, elective interdisciplinary
    branch B-EST , 2 year of study, winter semester, elective specialised

  • Programme EEKR-CZV lifelong learning

    branch EE-FLE , 1 year of study, winter semester, elective specialised

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Michal Kubíček, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Diode rectifiers, computation of smoothing inductor and capacitor, characteristics of capacitors.
2. Design of transformers and chokes.
3. Controlled rectifiers, DC/AC converter with thyristor and triac, GTO, IGCT.
4. Linear voltage regulators, current regulators.
5. Voltage and current references.
6. Switching power supplies. Introduction to switching voltage regulators.
7. DC/DC converters, step-down converter, step-up converter, inverting voltage converter and Cuk converters.
8. Switching voltage regulators with transformer, flyback converter, forward converter.
9. Push-pull converter, half-bridge forward converter, full-bridge forward converter.
10. Resonant converter, EMI elimination.
11. Construction of power supplies, protection systems, cooling design.
12. Primary and secondary cells, electro-chemical power supplies.
13. Solar systems, nuclear and fuel cells.

Exercise in computer lab

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Michal Kubíček, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. PSpice - introduction, diode rectifier simulation
2. PSpice - simulation of DC-DC converter
3. Individual project - specification
4. Eagle tutorial - schematic and PCB
5. Eagle tutorial - libraries and data export
6. Individual work on project

Laboratory exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Milan Štohanzl

Syllabus

1. Diode rectifiers, integrated linear regulators
2. Reference voltage and current sources
3. DC-DC converters (with an inductor) and charge pumps
4. DC-DC converter - practical design
5. DC-AC and AC-DC converters