Electrical Drive
Electrical Drive
Electrical Drive
Unit I
INTRODUCTION : Classification of Electric drive, Components of Electric Drives, Advantages of
Electric driven, Review of characteristics and speed control of d.c. and a.c. motors
Unit II
DYNAMICS OF ELECTRIC DRIVES : Fundamental torque equation, Speed-torque conventions and
multi-quadrant operation, Equivalent values of drive parameters, Components of load torques, Nature
and Classification of load torques, Calculation of time and energy-loss in transient operations, Criteria
for steady state stability, Load equalization, Thermal model of motor for heating and cooling, Classes
of motor duty, Determination of motor rating, Frequency of operation of motors subjected to
intermittent loads
Unit III
RECTIFIER CONTROL OF DC DRIVES : Controlled rectifier circuits, 1-phase fully controlled
rectifier-fed separately excited d.c. motor, 1-phase half-controlled rectifier-fed separately excited d.c.
motor, 3-phase fully controlled rectifier-fed separately excited d.c. motor, Multi-quadrant operation of
fully-controlled rectifier-fed d.c. motor
Unit IV
CHOPPER CONTROL OF DC DRIVES : Principle of operation and control techniques, Motoring
operation of separately excited and series excited motors, Multi quadrant control of chopper-fed
motors
Unit V
INDUCTION AND SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR DRIVES : 3-phase a.c. voltage controller-fed IM drive,
Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) and Current Source Inverter (CSI) variable frequency drives of
Induction and Synchronous Machines, Comparison of VSI and CSI drives, Cyclo-converter-fed IM
drive, Static rotor resistance control of 3-phase slip ring IM
Unit VI
BRAKING METHODS : Various methods of braking d.c. and a.c. motors, Regenerative braking of d.c.
motors during chopper control, Static scherbius drive, Commutatorless Kramer drive, Introduction to
Microprocessor Control of Electric Drives
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