ES103

BVM ENGINEERING COLLEGE [AN AUTONOMOUS INSTITUTION]
ES103: BASIC ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

CREDITS - 4 (LTP:3,0,1)
Course Objectives:
Electricity is the basic requirement for all citizens of a Country. It is also very important for all
sectors of Industry, Engineering and Infrastructure. In view of this, it is desirable for all discipline
engineering graduates to know the fundamental concepts of electrical engineering. This subject
deals with fundamental circuit analysis and solution methods, introduction to electrical machines,
power converters and basics of domestic electrical installations.
Teaching and Assessment Scheme:

Teaching Scheme
Credits Assessment Scheme Total
(Hours per week)
Marks
Theory Practical
L T P C
ESE CE ESE CE
3 0 2 4 60 40 20 30 150
Course Contents:
Unit Teaching
Topics
No. Hours
1 DC Circuits: 8
Electrical circuit elements (R, L and C), voltage and current sources, Kirchoff
current and voltage laws, analysis of simple circuits with dc excitation.
Superposition, Thevenin and Norton Theorems. Time-domain analysis of
first-order RL and RC circuits.
2 AC Circuits: 8
Representation of sinusoidal waveforms, peak and rms values, phasor
representation, real power, reactive power, apparent power, power factor.
Analysis of single-phase ac circuits consisting of R, L, C, RL, RC, RLC
combinations (series and parallel), resonance. Three-phase balanced circuits,
voltage and current relations in star and delta connections.
3 Transformers: 6
Magnetic materials, BH characteristics, ideal and practical transformer,
equivalent circuit, losses in transformers, regulation and efficiency. Auto-
transformer and three-phase transformer connections.
4 Electrical Machines: 8
Generation of rotating magnetic fields, Construction and working of a three-
phase induction motor, Significance of torque-slip characteristic. Loss
components and efficiency, starting and speed control of induction motor.
Single-phase induction motor. Construction, working, torque-speed
characteristic and speed control of separately excited dc motor. Construction
and working of synchronous generators.
Unit Teaching
Topics
No. Hours
5 Power Converters: 6
DC-DC buck and boost converters, duty ratio control. Single-phase and
three-phase voltage source inverters; sinusoidal modulation.
6 Electrical Installations 6
Components of LT Switchgear: Switch Fuse Unit (SFU), MCB, ELCB,
MCCB, Types of Wires and Cables, Earthing. Types of Batteries, Important
Characteristics for Batteries. Elementary calculations for energy
consumption, power factor improvement and battery backup.
Total 42
Suggested Text / Reference Books

1. D.P. Kothari and I. J. Nagrath, “Basic Electrical Engineering”, Tata McGraw Hill,2010.
2. D.C. Kulshreshtha, “Basic Electrical Engineering”, McGrawHill,2009.
3. Ritu Sahdev, Basic Electrical Engineering, (ISBN: 9789386173492), Khanna Book
Publishing Co.
4. B. L. Theraja, “A Textbook of Electrical Technology” - Volume I and II, S. Chand
Publishers, 2012
5. L.S. Bobrow, “Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering”, Oxford University Press,2011.
6. E. Hughes, “Electrical and Electronics Technology”, Pearson,2010.
7. V.D. Toro, “Electrical Engineering Fundamentals”, Prentice Hall India, 1989.
List of experiments/demonstrations:
1. Basic safety precautions. Introduction and use of measuring instruments–voltmeter, ammeter,
multi-meter, oscilloscope. Real-life resistors, capacitors and inductors.
2. Measuring the steady-state and transient time-response of R-L, R-C, and R-L-C circuits to a
step change in voltage (transient may be observed on a storage oscilloscope). Sinusoidal steady
state response of R-L, and R-C circuits – impedance calculation and verification. Observation
of phase differences between current and voltage. Resonance in R-L-C circuits.
3. Transformers: Observation of the no-load current waveform on an oscilloscope (non-
sinusoidal wave-shape due to B-H curve non-linearity should be shown along with a
discussion about harmonics). Loading of a transformer: measurement of primary and
secondary voltages and currents, and power.
4. Three-phase transformers: Star and Delta connections. Voltage and Current relationships
(line-line voltage, phase-to-neutral voltage, line and phase currents). Phase-shifts between the
primary and secondary side. Cumulative three-phase power in balanced three-phase circuits.
5. Demonstration of cut-out sections of machines: dc machine (commutator-brush arrangement),
induction machine (squirrel cage rotor), synchronous machine (field winging – slip-ring
arrangement) and single-phase induction machine.
6. Torque Speed Characteristic of separately excited dc motor.
7. Synchronous speed of two and four-pole, three-phase induction motors. Direction reversal by
change of phase-sequence of connections. Torque-Slip Characteristic of an induction motor.
Generator operation of an induction machine driven at super-synchronous speed.
8. Synchronous Machine operating as a generator: stand-alone operation with a load. Control of
voltage through field excitation.
9. Demonstration of (a) dc-dc converters (b) dc-ac converters –PWM waveform (c) the use of
dc-ac converter for speed control of an induction motor and (d) Components of LT switch-
gear.
Course Outcomes
At the end of this course the student will be capable:
1. To understand and analyze basic electric and magnetic circuits
2. To study the working principles of electrical machines and its applications
3. To analyze the performance of power converters
4. To understand and analyze components of low voltage electrical installations
5. To demonstrate and analyze the performance of electrical circuits and machines

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