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    Pe SS Final Ex 2010

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    This document contains a final exam for a power electronics course. It consists of 4 questions testing various concepts: 1) Multiple choice questions about power electronics devices, rectifiers, and converters. 2) A question about calculating firing angle, power delivered, and power factor for a DC motor drive system. 3) Questions about circuit diagrams, waveforms, power dissipation formula, and calculations for a single-phase AC-AC voltage controller. 4) Questions involving harmonic analysis of output voltage and current waveforms for a single-phase bridge inverter driving an inductive load. The questions calculate voltage harmonics, output voltage RMS, maximum current, power absorbed, and total harmonic distortion.

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    This document contains a final exam for a power electronics course. It consists of 4 questions testing various concepts: 1) Multiple choice questions about power electronics devices, rectifiers, and converters. 2) A question about calculating firing angle, power delivered, and power factor for a DC motor drive system. 3) Questions about circuit diagrams, waveforms, power dissipation formula, and calculations for a single-phase AC-AC voltage controller. 4) Questions involving harmonic analysis of output voltage and current waveforms for a single-phase bridge inverter driving an inductive load. The questions calculate voltage harmonics, output voltage RMS, maximum current, power absorbed, and total harmonic distortion.

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    This document contains a final exam for a power electronics course. It consists of 4 questions testing various concepts: 1) Multiple choice questions about power electronics devices, rectifiers, and converters. 2) A question about calculating firing angle, power delivered, and power factor for a DC motor drive system. 3) Questions about circuit diagrams, waveforms, power dissipation formula, and calculations for a single-phase AC-AC voltage controller. 4) Questions involving harmonic analysis of output voltage and current waveforms for a single-phase bridge inverter driving an inductive load. The questions calculate voltage harmonics, output voltage RMS, maximum current, power absorbed, and total harmonic distortion.

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    This document contains a final exam for a power electronics course. It consists of 4 questions testing various concepts: 1) Multiple choice questions about power electronics devices, rectifiers, and converters. 2) A question about calculating firing angle, power delivered, and power factor for a DC motor drive system. 3) Questions about circuit diagrams, waveforms, power dissipation formula, and calculations for a single-phase AC-AC voltage controller. 4) Questions involving harmonic analysis of output voltage and current waveforms for a single-phase bridge inverter driving an inductive load. The questions calculate voltage harmonics, output voltage RMS, maximum current, power absorbed, and total harmonic distortion.

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    Philadelphia University Student Name:

    Faculty of Engineering Student Number:

    Dept. of Electrical Engineering


    Final Exam, Second Semester: 2009/2010
    Course Title: Power Electronics /Power Electronics Date: 9 /6/2010
    and Drives
    Courses No: (610581) & (640342) Time Allowed: 2 Hours
    Lecturer: Dr. Mohammed Tawfeeq No. of Pages: 4

    Question 1: (20 Marks)


    Objectives: Understanding the principles of power electronics circuit and
    devices.
    Choose the correct answer for the following:
    (1). For a certain applications of power amplifier a power semiconductor switch is
    required to operate with 100V, 20A load and switching frequency of 10kHz .The
    power switching device suitable for this task is:
    (a) GTO (b) BJT (c) IGBT (d) Triac

    (2). In a single – phase half- wave controlled rectifier, if the input voltage is
    vs= 320 sinωt and the delay angle α = 60° the average output dc voltage is:

    (a) 76.4V (b) 100.0V (c) 120.9V (d) 85.6V


    (3). A single-phase full-wave controlled rectifier supplying highly inductive load such
    that the load current is assumed continuous, the input voltage has an r.m.s. value
    of 230 V, if the load resistance R = 20 ohms and the delay angle α = 60° then the
    average current Idc is :
    (a) 3.3A (b) 5.1A (c) 10.3 A (d) 20A
    (4). In a 3-phase full-wave uncontrolled bridge rectifier, if per phase peak input
    voltage is Vm, then the average output voltage is given by:
    (a) Vm/2π (b) √3Vm/2π (c) 3√3Vm/2π (d) 3 √3Vm/π
    (5). Each diode of a hexa-phase uncontrolled diode rectifier conducts for:
    (a) 60° (b) 120° (c) 180° (d) 90°.

    (6) Each thyristor of a 3-phase, half – wave controlled rectifier conducts for
    (a) 60° -α (b) 90° - α (c) 120° - α (d) 180° - α

    (7) For the hexa-phase (6-pulse) controlled rectifier, the average output voltage is
    given by:
    (a) Vdc = (Vm/π) cos α (b) Vdc = (3 √3Vm/2π) cos α
    (c) Vdc = (Vm/π) (1+cos α ) (d) Vdc = (3Vm/π) cos α ,

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    (8) A dc chopper is fed from 100V d.c. Its load consists of R=6 Ω and L= 20 mH .
    The average output voltage is 60 V, and toff = 1 msec. ,then Imax and Imin are:

    (a) 13.5A , 7.5 A (b) 11.5 A , 8.5 A (c) 7.5A, 6.5A (d) 10.5A,8.5A

    (9) For a single –phase AC chopper loaded with RL load of impedance angle
    (φ = 60°) then the approximate current extinction angle β is:

    (a) 207.5° (b) 214.5° (c) 222.5° (d) 225.5°

    (10) A single-phase AC-AC converter is connected to a load of resistance 50 ohms


    and a supply voltage of vs = 100 sin 314t volts. For a firing angle of 90°, the r.m.s
    value of the load current is:

    (a) 13.2 A (b) 3.4 A (c) 1.0 A (d) 5 A

    Question 2: (10 Marks)


    Objectives: Understanding the characteristics of DC drive .

    A single-phase semiconverter , shown in Fig.1 , is used to control the speed of small


    separately excited d.c. motor rated at 4.5 kW, 220V, 1500 rpm. The converter is
    connected to a single – phase 220 V, 50 Hz supply. The armature resistance is Ra =
    0.50 ohm and the armature circuit inductance is La = 10 mH. The motor voltage
    constant is Ke Φ = 0.1 V/rpm.
    With the converter operates as a rectifier , the d.c. motor runs at 1200 rpm and carries
    an armature current of 16 A . Assume that the motor current is continuous and ripple-
    free, determine:
    (a) The firing angle α.
    (b) The power delivered to the motor.
    (c) The supply power factor.

    Fig.1

    Note: Ea = Ke Φ n , T= KT Φ Ia , KT = 9.55 Ke , n = speed in rpm.

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    Question 3: (10 Mark)
    Objectives: Understanding the principles of single-phase AC –AC converter.

    A single-phase a.c. voltage controller with two inverse – parallel thyristors, has a
    120 V( r.m.s),. 50 Hz source. The load resistance R is 15 Ω, and the relation between
    the normalized r.m.s. load voltage and the delay angle a for a single-phase a.c. voltage
    controller with a resistive load is given in Fig.2.
    (a) Sketch the controller circuit diagram.
    (b) Sketch appropriate waveforms for the supply voltage, load voltage and current.
    (c). Prove that the power dissipation in the load is given by:

    P = ( Vs2 /2πR) [ 2( π -α) + sin2 α ]

    Where Vs is the rms value of the supply voltage.

    (d). Determine the delay angle α required to deliver 500 W .


    (e). Calculate the r.m.s. source current and the r.m.s. and average current in the
    thyristors.

    Fig.2

    Note that:

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    Question 4: (10 Mark)
    Objectives: Understanding the performance of the DC-to-AC converter.
    For the single-phase bridge inverter circuit shown in Fig. 3, we have Vs =100V, load
    resistance is R=10Ω, load inductance is L=25mH and output voltage frequency
    f=50Hz. The control logic for power electronics devices is also shown on the same
    figure.

    Fig.3

    (a) Determine the amplitude of the Fourier series terms for the square load voltage
    waveform, (consider up to the 9th order harmonic)
    (b) Compute the rms value of the output voltage waveform in terms of the harmonic
    components.
    (c) Determine the maximum value iomax for the load current, and
    (d) Find the total power absorbed by the load.
    (e) Draw the frequency spectrum of the output voltage waveform and hence
    calculate the total harmonic distortion factor (THD).

    Note: The waveforms of the load voltage and current for a purely inductive load are
    shown in the following figure (Fig.4):

    Fig.4

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