About the Lab
The Power Electronics Design Center (PEDC) conducts research on power electronics-based converters for motor drive applications and renewable integration to grid. Research includes the novel concept of a transformer-less grid-feeding current source inverter with reduced leakage current, conceptualization of a power electronics and drives experimental bench featuring more than 14 different circuit topologies, research on reducing capacitor ripple voltage and current in modular multilevel converters for variable speed drives, and breaker circuit development in a microgrid system for protecting power supply.
Research Areas
01 Power converters for motor drive applications
02 Renewable energy integration to grid
03 Transformer-less grid-feeding current source inverter
04 Modular multilevel converters for variable speed drives
05 Capacitor ripple voltage reduction
06 Microgrid breaker circuit and protection systems
Facilities & Equipment
PV Emulators
Low-high power DC/AC sources and programmable sources
2–8 channel Digital Storage Oscilloscope
Multi-meters with DAQ
MAGNET (Design & Simulation)
PSIM (Power Electronics Simulation)
Eagle (PCB Design)
MATLAB
PSCAD