The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering offers a Post Graduate course on M.E (Power Electronics and Drives). The PG Program was started in the year 2006 with team of highly qualified, dedicated and motivated faculty members as well as with well-equipped laboratories. The Department is privileged to produce a Gold Medalist in ME (Power Electronics and Drives) during the year 2016. The field of Power Electronics and Drives encompasses many exciting subjects such as Power Semiconductor Devices, Analysis of Electrical Machines, Analysis of Power Converters, Modeling and Design of SMPS, Analysis of Electrical Drives, Electric Vehicles and Power Management, Analysis and Design of Inverters, Special Electrical Machines, Power Quality.
PG (M.E – Power Electronics and Drives)
Vision of the Department
We, an elite panel of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, are committed to the development of students into energetic and confident professionals through symbolic effects and innovative practices of management and faculty to provide an ambient academic environment for the benefits of students and community at large.
Mission of the Department
Technical Education and Research: To provide technical education to face the challenges in the modern technology and to promote research capabilities to identify and solve problems.
Entrepreneurship: To provide good learning environment to develop entrepreneurship capabilities in the field of Electrical and Electronics Engineering with enhanced efficiency and technical knowledge.
Leadership Quality: To foster the talent of students with good leadership Quality and positive thinking to society with high standards of moral and ethical values.
Program Educational Objectives(PEOs)
PEO1: EMPLOYABILITY: To innovate the students to take more than just imagination and to give superior technical education for tomorrow’s competitive world.
PEO2: HIGHER STUDIES: To prepare the students with high standard education to associate with global industry needed.
PEO3: ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND LEADERSHIP: To train the students with perfection and state-of-the art technology keeping in the changing and demanding trends.
PEO4: PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: To create innovative thinkers in electrical and electronics field and to create new projects to meet the needs of the society.
Name of the Laboratories
Power Electronic Circuits Laboratory
Objectives
- To provide an insight on the switching behaviors of power electronic switches
- To make the students familiar with the digital tools used in generation of gate Pulses for the power electronic switches
- To make the students capable of implementing analog interfacing as well as Control circuits used in a closed-loop control for power electronic system
- To make the students acquire knowledge on mathematical modeling of power Electronic circuits and implementing the same using simulation tools
- To facilitate the students to design and fabricate a power converter circuits at Appreciable voltage/power levels
- To develop skills on PCB design and fabrication among the students.
List of Experiments
- Study of switching characteristics of Power electronic switches with and without Snubber (i) IGBT (ii) MOSFET
- Modeling and system simulation of basic electric circuits using MATLABSIMULINK/ SCILAB
- DC source fed resistive load and Resistive-inductive load
- DC source fed RLC load for different damping conditions
- DC source fed DC motor load
- Modeling and System simulation of basic power electronic circuits using MATLAB-SIMULINK/SCILAB
- AC Source with Single Diode fed Resistive and Resistive-Inductive Load
- AC source with Single SCR fed Resistive and Resistive-Inductive Load
- Modeling and System Simulation of SCR based full converter with different types of load using MATLAB-Simulink/SCILAB
- Full converter fed resistive load
- Full converter fed Resistive-Back Emf (RE) load at different firing angles
- Full Converter fed Resistive-Inductive Load at different firing angles
- Full converter fed DC motor load at different firing angles
- Circuit Simulation of Voltage Source Inverter and study of spectrum analysis with and without filter using MATLAB/SCILAB
- Single phase square wave inverter
- Three phase sine PWM inverter
- Generation of PWM gate pulses with duty cycle control using PWM peripheral of microcontroller ( TI-C2000 family/ PIC18)
- Duty cycle control from IDE
- Duty Cycle control using a POT connected to ADC peripheral in a standalone mode
- Generation of Sine-PWM pulses for a three phase Voltage Source Inverter with control of modulation index using PWM peripheral of microcontroller (TI C2000 family/PIC 18)
- Design of Driver Circuit using IR2110
- Design and testing of signal conditioning circuit to interface voltage/current sensor with microcontroller (TI-C2000 family/ PIC18)
- Interface Hall effect current sensor with microcontroller and display the current waveform in the IDE and validate with actual waveform in DSO
- Interface Hall effect Voltage sensor with microcontroller and display the current waveform in the IDE and validate with actual waveform in DSO
- Design of PI controller using OP-AMP
- Construction and testing of 500 W, 220 V IGBT based Buck converter with control circuit and its performance Evaluation
- Measurement of Efficiency at different duty cycle with a resistive load
- Measurement of Efficiency at different duty cycle with a resistive-inductive load
- PCB design and fabrication of DC power supply using any PCB design software (open source- KiCAD/students version)
Course Outcomes
- Comprehensive understanding on the switching behavior of Power Electronic Switches
- Comprehensive understanding on mathematical modeling of power electronic system and ability to implement the same using simulation tools
- Ability of the student to use microcontroller and its associated IDE* for power electronic applications
- Ability of the student to design and implement analog circuits for Power electronic control applications
- Ability to design and fabricate a power converter circuit at an reasonable power level
- Exposure to PCB designing and fabrication
- IDE – Integrate Development Environment (Code Composer Studio for Texas
- Instrument/MPLAB for PIC microcontrollers etc)
Electrical Drives Laboratory
Objectives
- To impart the theoretical and practical knowledge on
- To design and analyse the various DC and AC drives.
- To generate the firing pulses for converters and inverters using digital processors
- Design of controllers for linear and nonlinear systems
- Implementation of closed loop system using hardware simulation
List of Experiments
- Speed control of Converter fed DC motor.
- Speed control of Chopper fed DC motor.
- V/f control of three-phase induction motor.
- Micro controller based speed control of Stepper motor.
- Speed control of BLDC motor.
- DSP based speed control of SRM motor.
- Voltage Regulation of three-phase Synchronous Generator.
- Cycloconverter fed Induction motor drives
- Single phase Multi Level Inverter based induction motor drive
- Study of power quality analyzer
Course Outcomes
- Ability to simulate different types of machines, converters in a system.
- Analyze the performance of various electric drive systems.
- Ability to perform both hardware and software simulation.
Anna University Rank Holders List
| Sl.No. | NAME | DEGREE | BATCH | RANK |
| 1 | DEVI R NARMADHA | M.E.(PED) | 2011-2013 | 3 |
| 2 | ASWIN UDHAYA R | M.E.(PED) | 2011-2013 | 26 |
| 3 | SOUBULAKSHMI P | M.E.(PED) | 2011-2013 | 40 |
| 4 | PRIYA R | M.E.(PED) | 2012-2014 | 11 |
| 5 | MANORANJITHA R | M.E.(PED) | 2012-2014 | 30 |
| 6 | SUJITHA D | M.E.(PED) | 2012-2014 | 41 |
| 7 | KRISHNA KUMAR R | M.E.(PED) | 2012-2014 | 44 |
| 8 | DIVYA SRI D | M.E.(PED) | 2013-2015 | 5 |
| 9 | GAJA G. | M.E.(PED) | 2013-2015 | 7 |
| 10 | RAJA N | M.E.(PED) | 2013-2015 | 15 |
| 11 | NAKKEERAN R | M.E.(PED) | 2013-2015 | 32 |
| 12 | KALAIVANI M | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 1 |
| 13 | NANDHINI B | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 4 |
| 14 | NARMADHA V | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 5 |
| 15 | SIVASAKTHI S | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 7 |
| 16 | ANNASATHIYA S | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 19 |
| 17 | SHAILAJA T | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 21 |
| 18 | RAMYA R | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 26 |
| 19 | SASIREKHA M | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 29 |
| 20 | SUGANYA A | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 36 |
| 21 | ARULMOZHI S P | M.E.(PED) | 2016-2018 | 4 |
| 22 | SUSHMITHA C | M.E.(PED) | 2016-2018 | 13 |
Staff Activity
Journals Published
Academic year 2017-2018
| Sl.No. | NAME | DEGREE | BATCH | RANK |
| 1 | DEVI R NARMADHA | M.E.(PED) | 2011-2013 | 3 |
| 2 | ASWIN UDHAYA R | M.E.(PED) | 2011-2013 | 26 |
| 3 | SOUBULAKSHMI P | M.E.(PED) | 2011-2013 | 40 |
| 4 | PRIYA R | M.E.(PED) | 2012-2014 | 11 |
| 5 | MANORANJITHA R | M.E.(PED) | 2012-2014 | 30 |
| 6 | SUJITHA D | M.E.(PED) | 2012-2014 | 41 |
| 7 | KRISHNA KUMAR R | M.E.(PED) | 2012-2014 | 44 |
| 8 | DIVYA SRI D | M.E.(PED) | 2013-2015 | 5 |
| 9 | GAJA G. | M.E.(PED) | 2013-2015 | 7 |
| 10 | RAJA N | M.E.(PED) | 2013-2015 | 15 |
| 11 | NAKKEERAN R | M.E.(PED) | 2013-2015 | 32 |
| 12 | KALAIVANI M | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 1 |
| 13 | NANDHINI B | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 4 |
| 14 | NARMADHA V | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 5 |
| 15 | SIVASAKTHI S | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 7 |
| 16 | ANNASATHIYA S | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 19 |
| 17 | SHAILAJA T | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 21 |
| 18 | RAMYA R | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 26 |
| 19 | SASIREKHA M | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 29 |
| 20 | SUGANYA A | M.E.(PED) | 2014-2016 | 36 |
| 21 | ARULMOZHI S P | M.E.(PED) | 2016-2018 | 4 |
| 22 | SUSHMITHA C | M.E.(PED) | 2016-2018 | 13 |
Academic year 2018-2019
| S. No | Title | Name of the Authors |
| 1 | THREE-PHASE SYMMETRIC CASCADING Z-SOURCE SEVEN LEVELS MULTILEVEL INVERTER EXCITED BY MULTI CARRIER SINUSOIDAL PULSE WIDTH MODULATION SCHEME | Rajnish Kumar Sharma G. Irusapparajan D. Periyaazhagar |
Academic year 2019-2020
| S. No | Title | Name of the Authors |
| 1 | A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW ON EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES APPLIED FOR UNIT COMMITMENT PROBLEM | Narayanasamy Muralikrishnan Luke Jebaraj Charles Christober Asir Rajan |
| 2 | PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF HYBRID CONTROLLER INVOLVED IN 3-PHASE TO 3-PHASE POWER CONVERSION USING MATRIX CONVERTER | N. Murali Krishnan B. Muthuvel Chaladi Maniteja G. Ramprabu |
| 3 | SIMULATION AND HARDWARE IMPLEMENTATION OF Z SOURCE BUCK BOOST CONVERTER UNDER VARIOUS FREQUENCY CONDITIONS | Dr. N. Murali Krishnan Dr. B. Muthuvel Prof. A.N.V.J. RajaGopal Dr. S. Arulkumar |
| 4 | DESIGN ASPECTS OF STANDALONE PV SYSTEM WITH TWO SIMULATION TOOLS | Dr. A. Jeraldine viji Mr. R. Rajendirakumar Mr. G.G. Muthukumar Mr. R. Nakkeeran |
| 5 | IOT BASED AUTOMATIC MILK ATM MACHINE FOR RURAL AREA PEOPLE | Mr. M. Vijayaraghavan Mr. R. Rajendirakumar Mr. R. Nakkeerann |
| 6 | RELATIVE STUDY ON NEW CARRIER-PWM APPROACH DESIGNED FOR CASCADING THREE-PHASE IMPEDANCE SOURCE MLI | Rajnish Kumar Sharma G. Irusapparajan D. Periyaazhagar P. Salini S. Arulkumar |
| 7 | TORQUE RIPPLE MINIMIZATION OF PMBLDC MOTOR USING SIMPLE BOOST INVERTER | V. Krishnakumar N. Madhanakkumar P. Pugazhendiran C. Bharathiraja V. Sriramkumar |
Academic year 2020-2021
| S. No | Title | Name of the Authors |
| 1 | A SET POINT CHANGE COMPARISON OF VARIOUS CONTROLLERS INVOLVED IN 3-PHASE TO 3-PHASE POWER CONVERSION USING MATRIX CONVERTER | Dr. N. Murali Krishnan Prof. A.N.V.J. RAJA GOPAL Dr. B. MUTHUVEL |
| 2 | POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF GRID CONNECTED PV SYSTEM FED ZSI-DVR WITH ADVANCED CONTROL STRATEGY | A. Jeraldine Viji R. Balamanigandan B Manimaran |
| 3 | NON-DESTRUCTIVE CLASSIFICATION OF FRUITS BASED ON COLOR BY USING MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES | Dr. Kedri Janardhana Dr. V. Elizabeth Jesi M. Vijayaragavan Rekha Baghel Dr. A. Nirmal Kumar |
| 4 | AMALGAMATED APPROACH FOR IDENTIFICATION OF BONE TUMOR BY USING MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING | Dr. Kedri Janardhana Dr. Brahmadesam Viswanathan Krishna Mr. M. Vijayaragavan Dr. Kareemullah Mr. K. Vinoth |
| 5 | PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF LLC RESONANT CONVERTER INCORPORATING PI FUZZY AND NEURAL CONTROLLERS | N. Madhanakkumar T. Vasanth V. Sriramkumar C. Kanchana |
| 6 | STABILITY ANALYSIS OF PROPORTIONAL INTEGRAL AND FUZZY CONTROLLER FOR MODIFIED RESONANT CONVERTER UNDER VARIOUS DISTURBANCES | G.G. Muthukumar N. Madhanakkumar G. Irusapparajan V. Sriramkumar |
| 7 | COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF UPQC WITH VARIOUS HYSTERESIS CURRENT CONTROLLERS | Dr. A. Jeraldine viji Dr. S. Balasubramaniyan |
| 8 | TOPOLOGY IMPROVEMENTS REVIEW ON REDUCED SWITCH MULTILEVEL INVERTERS | Dr. C. R. Balamurugan Dr. G. Prem Sunder |
| 9 | PHC CONTROL METHOD FOR SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTERS IN THREE-PHASE FOUR-WIRE SYSTEMS | Mr. A. Muthuraman Mr. M. Saravana Kumar |
| 10 | FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER FOR SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTER IN THREE PHASE FOUR WIRE SYSTEM | Mr. A. Muthuraman Mr. M. Saravana Kumar |
Academic year 2021-2022
| S. No | Title | Name of the Authors |
| 1 | ANALYSIS OF CASCADED H-BRIDGE MULTILEVEL INVERTER WITH CURRENT CONTROL METHODS | Prem Sunder Gnanamurthy Veerapathiran Govindasamy |
| 2 | PV COMBINED ZSI-PAPF WITH SPECIAL FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER FOR POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT | Dr. A. Jeraldine Viji Dr. S. Balasubramaniyan Mrs. A. Radhabai |
| 3 | IOT BASED UNMANNED INTELLIGENT STREET LIGHT USING RENEWABLE ENERGY | Dinesh Kumar Anguraj S. Balasubramaniyan E. Saravana Kumar J. Vakula Rani M. Ashwin |
| 4 | A TECHNO-ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS OF RENEWABLE ENERGY-BASED MARINE MICRO-GRID FOR CRUISE SHIP APPLICATIONS: A CASE STUDY SIMULATION | Murugaperumal Krishnamoorthy, Satheeshkumar Packirisamy, Muqthiar Ali Shaik, Amaresh Karanam, Arulselvi Ramasamy, Marlin Sagayaraj |
| 5 | MODIFIED FIREFLY ALGORITHM BASED QUASI Z-SOURCE CASCADED MULTILEVEL INVERTER IN POWER SYSTEM | G. Prem Sunder B. Shanthi Alamelu Nachiappan S.P. Natarajan |
Academic year 2022-2023
| S. No | Title | Name of the Authors |
| 1 | ENERGY MANAGEMENT APPROACH IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE WITH OPTIMIZING ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION COST USING HYBRID METHOD | M. Vijayaragavan V. Krishnakumar V. Vasan Prabhu |
