ROEVER COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, PERAMBALUR 621 212

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

LESSON PLAN
Subject Name
SPECIAL ELECTRICAL MACHINES
Branch
EEE
Subject code
EE 2403
Year / Semester
IV / VII
Associate
Name of the
Designation
G. Anbalagan
faculty
Professor
Total
hours
required
to
complete
syllabus
Academic year 2014 2015
52 hours
OBJECTIVES
To impart knowledge on
i. Construction, principle of operation and performance of synchronous reluctance motors.
ii. Construction, principle of operation, control and performance of stepping motors.
iii. Construction, principle of operation, control and performance of switched reluctance motors.
iv. Construction, principle of operation, control and performance of permanent magnet brushless
D.C. motors.
v. Construction, principle of operation and performance of permanent magnet synchronous motors.

SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MOTORS

Unit - I
Target Hours 10 Hours
Text Book: 1. T.J.E. Miller, Brushless Permanent Magnet and Reluctance Motor Drives,
Clarendon Press,Oxford, 1989.
S. No.

Date
Planed

Period
Reqd.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

2/7/14
3/7/14
4/7/14
5/7/14
7/7/14
8/7/14
9/7/14
10/7/14
11/7/14
14/7/14

1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

Topic(s)

Constructional features
Types Axial motors
Radial Air gap motors
Operating principle
Variable Reluctance
Hybrid Motors
SYNREL Motors
Voltage and Torque Equations
Phasor diagram
Characteristics.

T/R
Book No.
Page(s)

Actual Date
of
completion

Remarks

R4-124

R1-149
R1-119
R1- 63
R1-100
R1- 64

Unit - II
Target Hours
11Hours
STEPPING MOTORS
Reference Book: 2. P.P. Aearnley, Stepping Motors A Guide to Motor Theory and
Practice, Peter Perengrinus London, 1982.
Date

Period

Planed

Reqd.

11.

15/7/14

Constructional features

R2- 5

12.
13.
14.

16/7/14
17/7/14
18/7/14
19/7/14

1
1
1

R2 - 2
R2 - 6
R2 - 8

21/7/14

Principle of operation
Variable reluctance motor
Hybrid motor
Single and multi-stack
configurations
Torque equations

S. No.

15.
16.

Topic(s)

T/R
Book No.
Page(s)

R2 - 6
R2 - 31

Actual Date
of
completion

Remarks

Unit - II
Target Hours
11Hours
STEPPING MOTORS
Reference Book: 2. P.P. Aearnley, Stepping Motors A Guide to Motor Theory and
Practice, Peter Perengrinus London, 1982.
S. No.

17.
18.
19.
20.
21.

Date

Period

Planed

Reqd.

22/7/14
23/7/14
24/7/14
25/7/14

1
1
1

28/7/14

Topic(s)

Modes of excitations
Characteristics
Drive circuits.
Microprocessor control of
stepping motors
Closed loop control

T/R
Book No.
Page(s)

Actual Date
of
completion

Remarks

R2 - 30
R2 - 29
R2- 14
R2-131
R2- 111

Unit - III
Target Hours
11 Hours
SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTORS
Reference Book: 1. 1. T.J.E. Miller, Brushless Permanent Magnet and Reluctance Motor
Drives, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989.
Date

Period

Planed

Reqd.

29/7/14
30/7/14
31/7/14
1/8/14
2/8/14

1
1
1
1
1

4/8/14
5/8/14

1
1

6/8/14

7/8/14
8/8/14
9/8/14

1
1
1

S. No.

22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.

Unit - IV

Topic(s)

Constructional features
Rotary and Linear SRMs
Principle of operation
Torque production
Steady state performance
prediction
Analytical method
Power controllers and their
controllers
Methods of Rotor position
sensing
Sensor less operation
Closed loop control of SRM
Characteristics

T/R
Book No.
Page(s)

Actual Date
of
completion

Remarks

R1-1.7.1
R1- 1.4
R1- 3.10
R1 2.0
R1- 2.3

R1-5.3.6, 8.3
R1- 8.4
R1 5.3

PERMANENT MAGNET BRUSHLESS D.C. MOTORS

Target
Hours

10 Hours

Reference Book: 3. T. Kenjo and S. Nagamori, Permanent Magnet and Brushless DC Motors,
Clarendon Press, London, 1988.
S. No.

33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.

Date

Period

Planed

Reqd.

11/8/14
12/8/14
13/8/14
14/8/14
15/8/14
16/8/14
18/8/14
19/8/14

1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

Topic(s)

Permanent Magnet materials

Magnetic Characteristics
Permeance coefficient
Principle of operation
Types
Magnetic circuit analysis
EMF and torque equations
Commutation

T/R
Book No.
Page(s)

R3-22
R3-22
R3-26
R3- 76
R3 - 40
R3-127
R3 -138
R3- 11

Actual Date
of
completion

Remarks

Unit - IV

PERMANENT MAGNET BRUSHLESS D.C. MOTORS

Target
Hours

10 Hours

Reference Book: 3. T. Kenjo and S. Nagamori, Permanent Magnet and Brushless DC Motors,
Clarendon Press, London, 1988.
S. No.

41.
42.

Date

Period

Planed

Reqd.

20/8/14
21/8/14

1
1

Topic(s)

Power controllers
Motor characteristics and
control

T/R
Book No.
Page(s)

Actual Date
of
completion

Remarks

R3 -123

Target
10 Hours
Hours
Reference Book: 4. SPECIAL ELECTRICAL MACHINES by E.G. JANARDANAN
Unit - V

PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS

Date

Period

Planed

Reqd.

22/8/14
23/8/14
25/8/14
26/8/14
27/8/14
28/8/14

1
1
1
1
1
1

49.
50.
51.

29/8/14
30/8/14
1/9/14

52.

2/9/14

1
1
1
1

S. No.

43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.

Topic(s)

T/R
Book No.
Page(s)

Actual Date
of
completion

Remarks

Principle of operation
Ideal PMSM
EMF and Torque equations
Armature reaction MMF
Synchronous Reactance
Sine wave motor with practical
windings
Phasor diagram
Torque/speed characteristics
Power controllers
Converter Volt-ampere
requirements

TEXT BOOKS:
1. T.J.E. Miller, Brushless Permanent Magnet and Reluctance Motor Drives, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989.
2. T. Kenjo, Stepping Motors and Their Microprocessor Controls, Clarendon Press London, 1984.

REFERENCES:
1. R. Krishnan, Switched Reluctance Motor Drives Modeling, Simulation, Analysis, Design and Application, CRC
Press, New York, 2001.
2. P.P. Aearnley, Stepping Motors A Guide to Motor Theory and Practice, Peter Perengrinus London, 1982.
3. T. Kenjo and S. Nagamori, Permanent Magnet and Brushless DC Motors, Clarendon Press, London, 1988.