The Fundamentals of Power & Electrical Engineering Bundle

From Google to Microsoft, 5G to the blockchain, selfies to self-driving, the internet is expected to become an even bigger part of our lives - and it's all supported by a growing legion of mammoth facilities known as data centers. This course is intended to give you a jump start into the world of data centers. We will cover the many standards, terminology, and acronyms used when talking and walking through these mission-critical facilities. By the end, you will know the lingo and more about data centers than 90% of those in the industry.

• Access 6 lectures & 2 hours of content 24/7
• Learn the fundamentals of data center like data center types, sizes & priorities
• Summarize the history of technology
• Know about Data Center types & sizes
• Know the differing priorities of data centers, from financial to search engines to blockchain supporting equipment, systems & controls

In this section of the Data Center Essentials courses, we cover the mechanical cooling systems that support data centers and prevent them from overheating. As the data center power and density have increased every year, the need to remove the heat generated has become a more important factor for the facility's design and operation. This course will tackle common terminology, standards, guides, and operating conditions for data centers before moving on to more complex components, operations, and controls.

• Access 5 lectures & 4 hours of content 24/7
• Know the basics of data center cooling & mechanical systems
• Understand redundancy concepts for mechanical & cooling systems
• Understand mechanical & plumbing systems and controls
• Learn how differing priorities, locations & more change the cooling design

In this course, we dive more deeply into the electrical and power systems and components that support data centers. With data centers using about 5% of the world's energy and growing, these power systems are ever-expanding and improving. With the internet expected to be an essential part of our lives, the electrical infrastructure supporting the data centers that power the internet are becoming more essential to understand and support.

• Access 5 lectures & 4 hours of content 24/7
• Learn the fundamentals of data center electrical & power systems
• Understand the redundancy concepts for electrical distribution & equipment
• Understand electrical equipment, systems & controls
• Know how differing priorities & data center types change the electrical design

In this course, you are going to learn about the construction and principle of operating a synchronous generator, equivalent circuit and phasor diagrams on the non-salient machines, and equivalent circuit and phasor diagrams of the salient machine. It will explain how the simulation of a synchronous generator connected to a small electrical power system works. Also, you will be taught how to import data from the PSCAD program into the MATLAB program for analysis and usage of data in fault detection, implement PID controller in MATLAB, and tuning of PID controller in MATLAB.

• Access 8 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Learn about construction & principle of operation of synchronous generator
• Know about the equivalent circuit & phrasor diagram of non-salient machines
• Know about the equivalent circuit & phrasor diagram of salient machines
• Understand the simulation of synchronous generator connected to small electrical power system
• Import data from PSCAD program into MATLAB program for analysis & usage of data in fault detection
• Implement PID controller in MATLAB
• Tune in PID controller in MATLAB

This course will help you learn the principle of operation and simulation using MATLAB. Here, you will be taught about single-phase half-wave controller rectifier, single-phase bridge controlled rectifier, single-phase AC chopper with R and RL load, and DC-DC converter as a buck regulator. Also, you will learn about boost regulator, Buck-Boost regulator, single-phase half-bridge inverter, single-phase bridge inverter, and the three-phase inverter

• Access 30 lectures & 6 hours of content 24/7
• Learn about single-phase half-wave controlled rectifier
• Learn about single-phase bridge controlled rectifier
• Learn about single-phase AC chopper with R & RL load
• Learn about DC-DC converter as a buck regulator
• Know what a boost regulator is
• Know what a Buck-Boost regulator is
• Understand single-phase half-bridge inverter
• Understand single phase bridge inverter
• Gain insights on the Three-Phase Inverter

This fourth course in power electronics is designed for anyone who wants to learn about inverters in power electronics, which are used to convert the DC voltage into AC by different methods, which will be discussed in the course. You'll learn its definition, importance, applications, and more.

• Access 20 lectures & 2 hours of content 24/7
• Know what inverters are
• Understand the importance & applications of inverters
• Learn about single-phase half-bridge R & R-L loads
• Know the performance parameters of an inverter
• Discover 3-phase inverters & how to obtain line/phase voltages

This third course in power electronics is designed for anyone who wants to learn about DC choppers in power electronics, which are used to convert the fixed DC voltage into variable DC by different methods, which will be discussed in the course. You will learn about the different DC chopper circuits such as step up and step down DC choppers, the buck, boost, and buck-boost converters, in addition to how to select components for these circuits.

• Access 22 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Know what DC choppers & their applications are
• Understand the generation of the duty cycle
• Learn the types of circuits used to step up or step down the DC voltage
• Analyze of the step-down DC chopper with R & R-L-E load
• Analyze of the step-up DC chopper with R, RL, & RE loads
• Analyze of a buck regulator, boost regulator, &d buck-boost regulator circuits
• Master the equations to get the minimum values of inductance & capacitance required for those circuits

This second course in power electronics is designed for anyone who wants to learn about AC choppers in power electronics, which are used to convert the fixed AC voltage into variable AC by different methods, which will be discussed in the course. You will learn about the different AC chopper circuits in the case of R-load, RL series load, RL parallel load, and capacitive by using the phase angle control method. You will also learn about integral cycle control and more.

• Access 24 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Learn which AC choppers are used to convert fixed AC voltage into variable AC
• Know the different AC chopper circuits in case of R-load, RL series load, RL parallel load & capacitive
• Discover the applications & disadvantages of AC choppers
• Learn more about integral cycle control

This course is designed for anyone who would like to learn about different types of power electronic switches, such as uncontrolled, semi-controlled, and fully controlled switches. This first course is about rectifiers in power electronics, which are used to convert the voltage from AC into DC voltage; you will learn about different circuits of rectifiers such as half-wave and full-wave rectifiers.

• Access 46 lectures & 5 hours of content 24/7
• Understand power electronics circuits & its applications
• Know the different types of switches: uncontrolled, semi-controlled, & fully
• Discover the types & applications for different switching devices
• Learn what a rectifier is
• Know the different single-phase rectifier circuits & their configurations