ELE411:ELECTRIC DRIVES

L:3 T:0 P:0 Credits:3

Course Outcomes: Through this course students should be able to

Understand the basic concepts of electrical drives.

Impart knowledge of transient and steady-state operation of electric drives

Study the fundamental principles of rectifier based DC drives

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

Text Books:

1. FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTRICAL DRIVES by G K DUBEY, NAROSA PUBLISHING

HOUSE
References:

1. A FIRST COURSE ON ELECTRICAL DRIVES by SK PILLAI, NEW AGE

INTERNATIONAL

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