Electrical Machines & Power Electronics (H7090)
15 credits, Level 5
Autumn teaching
On this module you’ll explore AC and DC machines in greater depth, focusing on the role of an application engineer and basic principles, characteristics, modelling, control and applications.
You’ll explore two types of motors:
- induction machines, which account for more than 90 per cent of the motors used in industry
- synchronous machines, which are used in some high-efficiency industrial drives, and for most electrical power generation.
In many applications, the conventional AC and DC machines are combined with electronic power converters to form electrical drive systems.
You’ll also be introduced to basic concepts of power electronics. You’ll the main types of converter used for these applications, and how they are used together with electrical machines as part of electrical drive systems.
These topics have an increasing relevance in high-technology products that have been developed recently with numerous applications, including:
- electric cars
- hybrid cars
- wind power generation
- robotics
- ship propulsion
- micro-grids.
You will benefit from laboratory experiments and electronics design, giving you a hands-on approach to electrical machines and power electronics, as well as a better understanding of their operating principles and control. You’ll also use Matlab and Simulink (Simscape) to model, test