Design and Simulation of Three Phase Six Pulse Thyristor Controlled Rectifier

Conventional electrical power can be converted from AC into DC by using various rectifier circuit configurations with multi pulse arrangement to minimize the ripple content in the output. The rectifiers have several applications in industry like electroplating, heating, magnet power supply, traction, battery charging, etc. with different specifications. In this paper, design of three phase six pulse thyristor controlled rectifier has been described with purely resistive and resistive inductive type of loads. The circuit simulation of the rectifier configuration has been performed using simulation tool and the simulation results have been presented. The implementation of hardware circuit of rating 2.5 kW has been proposed to validate simulation results.