Simulating Power Electronic Circuits using Python

Simulating Power Electronic Circuits using Python, available at $64.99, has an average rating of 4.38, with 107 lectures, based on 251 reviews, and has 1878 subscribers.

You will learn about Installing and setting up Python Installing Python Power Electronics – an open source circuit simulator Simulating a basic resistive circuit Basics of magnetic and electric fields from a power engineering perspective How inductors and capacitors form energy storage elements in power electronic circuits The use of diodes in power electronic circuits The working of a diode using simulations The concept of rectification and how a rectifier can be built using diodes Building a rectifier step by step using simulations Writing control functions using Python Simulating a buck converter This course is ideal for individuals who are Students of electrical engineering, practicing engineers and electrical technicians It is particularly useful for Students of electrical engineering, practicing engineers and electrical technicians.

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Summary

Title: Simulating Power Electronic Circuits using Python

Price: $64.99

Average Rating: 4.38

Number of Lectures: 107

Number of Published Lectures: 107

Number of Curriculum Items: 107

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 107

Original Price: CA$24.99

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What You Will Learn

Installing and setting up Python

Installing Python Power Electronics – an open source circuit simulator

Simulating a basic resistive circuit

Basics of magnetic and electric fields from a power engineering perspective

How inductors and capacitors form energy storage elements in power electronic circuits

The use of diodes in power electronic circuits

The working of a diode using simulations

The concept of rectification and how a rectifier can be built using diodes

Building a rectifier step by step using simulations

Writing control functions using Python

Simulating a buck converter

Who Should Attend

Students of electrical engineering, practicing engineers and electrical technicians

Target Audiences

Students of electrical engineering, practicing engineers and electrical technicians

For a student of electrical engineering or for a practicing electrical technician, getting started with simulating electrical circuits can be challenging. Even more so in the case of power electronics where circuits are non-linear. This course introduces the process of simulation and also provides basic theory lectures to help you understand how simulations can be used to learn how power converters work.

This course uses only free and open source software. The course will have lectures to show you how to download and install each software. All software are compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS and you can follow this course whatever operating system you prefer to use. The course also has a basic tutorial on Python programming to help you with writing control code for electrical circuits. The course uses the free and open source circuit simulator Python Power Electronics. You can use other simulators if you are already using them. However, all examples in this course will use Python Power Electronics as I would like all students registered for the course to be able to access a circuit simulator and not all simulators are free to use.

This course is not a comprehensive course on power electronics. I will not be covering a vast number of power converters. Instead, this course focuses on depth. The lectures will have code along sessions where I will be building simulations from scratch and will be switching back and forth between theory presentations and simulation results to understand how circuits work. The course will not be heavily mathematical but on the contrary will use fundamental concepts of Physics to understand how power converter circuits.

In order to successfully complete this course, a student is required to have some basic electrical knowledge. This implies basic network laws – Kirchoff’s Voltage Law, Kirchoff’s Current Law, Ohm’s Law. These would be taught in first year of electrical engineering. Other than that, you do not need to have prior knowledge of power electronics or analog electronics. A student will also be required to have some basic knowledge of programming. This course uses Python. However, if a student has used any other high level language such as C, C++, Java etc, that would do as well. Expert knowledge of programming is not necessary. This course however, should not be a student’s very first time coding.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome

Lecture 1: Welcome

Chapter 2: Introduction

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Concept of simulation

Lecture 3: Open source software in electrical engineering

Lecture 4: Python Power Electronics – an open source circuit simulator

Lecture 5: Target audience of the course

Chapter 3: Installing software

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Introduction to Anaconda Python

Lecture 3: Windows – installing Anaconda

Lecture 4: Linux/Mac – installing Anaconda

Lecture 5: Environments in Anaconda

Lecture 6: Windows – setting up Anaconda environments

Lecture 7: Linux/Mac – setting up Anaconda environments

Lecture 8: Setting up an environment for Python Power Electronics

Lecture 9: Changes to the download links

Lecture 10: Windows – installing and setting up Python Power Electronics

Lecture 11: Linux/Mac – installing the dependencies for Python Power Electronics

Lecture 12: Linux/Mac – installing and setting up Python Power Electronics

Lecture 13: Windows – launching Python Power Electronics

Lecture 14: Linux/Mac – launching Python Power Electronics

Lecture 15: Editors for Python programming

Lecture 16: Conclusion

Chapter 4: Simulating Basic Resistive Circuits

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Choosing a circuit to simulate

Lecture 3: Drawing the circuit in a spreadsheet

Lecture 4: Rules for drawing circuits in spreadsheets

Lecture 5: Understanding parameters of a simulation

Lecture 6: Creating a new simulation

Lecture 7: Adding a circuit schematic to the simulation

Lecture 8: Parameters of circuit components

Lecture 9: Editing the parameters of components in the simulation

Lecture 10: Running the simulation

Lecture 11: Backing up the parameters of the circuit

Lecture 12: Conclusions

Chapter 5: Energy storage in electrical circuits

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Magnetic field basics

Lecture 3: Electromagnets

Lecture 4: Inductors

Lecture 5: Induced EMF produced by inductors

Lecture 6: Inductors – Laws and formulae

Lecture 7: Capacitors

Lecture 8: Capacitors – Laws and formulae

Lecture 9: Comparing inductors and capacitors

Lecture 10: Conclusions

Chapter 6: Basic nonlinear circuits

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Diodes

Lecture 3: Test circuit to examine the working of a diode

Lecture 4: Parameters of a diode

Lecture 5: When the diode is forward biased

Lecture 6: When the diode is reverse biased

Lecture 7: When an AC voltage is applied across the diode

Lecture 8: Concept of rectification

Lecture 9: Setting up the rectifier simulation

Lecture 10: Simulating the basic rectifier

Lecture 11: Analysis of the basic rectifier and the need for energy storage

Lecture 12: Adding a capacitor to the output

Lecture 13: Change in the operation of the rectifier with a capacitor at the output

Lecture 14: Analyzing the effect of addition of the capacitor

Lecture 15: Increasing the value of the capacitance and analyzing the result

Lecture 16: The need for an inductor as a current limiter and energy buffer

Lecture 17: Adding the inductor and analyzing the results

Lecture 18: Conclusions

Chapter 7: Tutorial on Python programming

Lecture 1: Overview

Lecture 2: Launching the interactive Jupyter notebook

Lecture 3: Integer data types

Lecture 4: Float data types

Lecture 5: String data types

Lecture 6: List data types

Lecture 7: Dictionary data types

Lecture 8: Iterable objects

Lecture 9: In-built functions available in Python

Lecture 10: User defined functions

Lecture 11: Conditionals

Lecture 12: Programming challenge

Chapter 8: Writing control functions in Python Power Electronics

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: How a control function is evaluated by the simulator

Lecture 3: IO ports of a controller

Lecture 4: Inputs to a control function

Lecture 5: Basic computation with inputs

Lecture 6: Time event variables to achieve digital control

Lecture 7: Common timing problems

Lecture 8: Need for internal variables with memory

Lecture 9: Static variables

Lecture 10: Controllable voltage source – a component that can be regulated through control

Lecture 11: Output variables

Lecture 12: Variable resistors and variable inductors

Lecture 13: Commonly occuring errors with control code

Lecture 14: Conclusion

Chapter 9: Simulating a buck converter

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Jumpers or connectors in circuits

Lecture 3: The ideal switch component

Instructors

Shivkumar Iyer
Power electronics researcher and software developer

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2 stars: 9 votes

3 stars: 19 votes

4 stars: 99 votes

5 stars: 121 votes

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