Proposed Syllabus for M.Tech.

Second Semester
POWER QUALITY Issues of Electrical Drives

Subject Code: 16EED204 IA Marks: 50

Number of Lecture Hours/Week: 04 Exam Hours: 03
Total Number of Lecture Hours: 50 Exam Marks: 100
Credits: 4

COURSE OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course students will be able to:
1) The students gain in depth knowledge about various terminologies of power quality, disturbances & PO1, PO4,
causes. PO9, PO2
2) The students learn the metrics of power quality phenomena and get better exposure on harmonic PO1, PO4,
sources and filters. PO2
3) To familiarise the various power quality characterizations, sources of power quality issues and PO4, PO9,
recommend standards related to power quality. PO2
4) To analyse power system harmonics through multiple methods. PO1, PO2
5) The students gain ability to design solutions for power quality improvement. PO2, PO12
6) The students can take up as their specialization for their research in the field of power quality. PO6, PO12,
PO7

MODULE 1
Introduction: Introduction to power quality, overview of power quality phenomena, Power
quality-voltage quality, power quality evaluation procedures, power quality terms power quality
and EMC standard.
Long Interruptions: Introduction, observation of system performance, standards and
regulations, overview of reliability evaluation, reliability evaluation techniques (to be
removed).
(Reference 1- Ch.1 & Reference 2-Ch.1)

MODULE 2
Short Interruptions: Introduction, terminology, origin of short interruptions, monitoring of
short interruptions.
Influence on equipment, single phase tripping, and stochastic prediction of short interruptions
(to be removed).

Voltage Sags - Characterization: Introduction, voltage sag magnitude, Monitoring ( RMS

voltage, Fundamental voltage component, Peak Voltage), One cycle voltage sag, Voltage sag
duration (Fault clearing time, Magnitude duration plots, Measurement of sag duration,
theoretical calculations)voltage sag duration, phase angle jumps (monitoring, theoretical
calculations)

Voltage Sags -Equipment Behaviour : Introduction, adjustable speed AC drives, adjustable

speed DC drives, other sensitive load
(Reference 1- Ch. 4 & 5)
 MODULE3
Voltage Sags - Characterization: Introduction, voltage sag magnitude, voltage sag duration,
three phase unbalance, phase angle jumps. Magnitude and phase angle jumps for three phase
unbalanced sags

Harmonics: Harmonic distortion, harmonic indices, harmonic sources from commercial loads,
harmonic sources from Industrial loads, principles for controlling harmonics, harmonic studies,
devices for controlling harmonic distortion, Harmonic filter Design- A case study,
(Reference 2- Ch. 5 & 6)

MODULE 4
Voltage Sags – Equipment Behaviour: Introduction, computers and consumer electronics,
adjustable speed AC drives, adjustable speed DC drives, other sensitive load.

Distributed Generation & Power Quality: DG Technologies, Interface to the utility system,
Power Quality issues, , DG on low distribution networks, Interconnection Standards
(Reference 2- Ch. 9)

MODULE 5
Mitigation of Interruptions and Voltage Sags: Overview of mitigation methods, power system
design – redundancy through switching and parallel operation, system equipment interface.

Mitigation of Power Quality Disturbances- System- equipment interface, Voltage Source

converter, series voltage controllers, shunt voltage controllers, combined controllers, backup
power source, cascade connected voltage controllers, other solutions
(Reference 1- Ch. 7)

REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Math H J Bollen, “Understanding Power Quality Problems; Voltage Sags and
Interruptions”, Wiley India, 2011.
2. Roger C Dugan, et.al, “Electrical Power Systems Quality”, 3rd Edition, TMH, 2012.
 Proposed Syllabus for M.Tech. First Semester
COMPUTER CONTROL OF INDUSTRIAL DRIVES

Subject Code: 16EED2XX IA Marks: 50

Number of Lecture Hours/Week: 04 Exam Hours: 03
Total Number of Lecture Hours: 50 Exam Marks: 100
Credits: 4

COURSE OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course students will be able to:
(1) Select components, interpret terminal characteristics of the components, model PO1,
components, design circuit, and understanding operation of power electronics circuits PO2,PO5
(2) Evaluate the steady state and transient behaviour of induction and synchronous machines PO1,PO3,
to propose the suitability of drives for different industrial applications PO5
(3) To analyse the steady state and dynamic state operation of three-phase induction machines PO2,PO3,
and synchronous machines using transformation theory based mathematical Modeling and PO5
digital computer simulation.
(4) Gain the knowledge related to supply, controlled technique, individual /group operated PO2, PO6,
machines, and its stability for the particular application. PO7
(5) Apply expert system and fuzzy based control for solving control problems involving vector PO4,PO5,
control strategies PO6, PO7

MODULE 1
1. Evolution of Power Electronics in Drives: Power semiconductor devices used for drives
control, GTO, BJT, Power MOSFET, IGBT, MCT and IGCT structures, ratings,
comparison and their applications, block diagram for power integrated circuit for DC
motor drives.
MODULE 2
2. AC Machine Drives: General classification and National Electrical manufacturer
Association (NEMA) classification, special control of induction motors with variable
voltage, constant frequency, constant voltage variable frequency, (V/f) constant
operation, drive operating regions, variable stator current operation, and effect of
harmonics.
MODULE 3
3. Synchronous Machine Drives: Wound field machine, comparison of induction and
wound field synchronous machines, torque angle characteristics of salient pole
synchronous machine:
4. Synchronous reluctance permanent magnet synchronous machines (SPM), variable
reluctance machine (VRM).
MODULE 4
5. Phase Controlled Converters: Converter controls, linear firing angle control, wave
cosine crossing control, phase locked oscillator principle, electromagnetic interference
(EMI) and line power quality problems.
6. Cyclo-converters: Introduction, phase controlled cyclo converters: Operating
principle, three phase dual converter as cycloconverter.

MODULE 5
7. Principle of Slip Power Recovery Schemes: Static Kramer’s drive system, block
schematic diagram and phasor diagram and limitations, static Scherbius scheme
system using DC link converters with cyclo-converter modes of operation, modified
Scherbius drives for variable source constant frequency (VSCF) generation.
 8. Expert System Application to Drives: (only block diagram approach) Expert System
shell, design methodology, ES based P-I tuning of vector controlled drive system,
Fuzzy logic control for speed controller in vector control drives structure of fuzzy
control in feedback system.

REFERENCE BOOKS
1. Bimal K.Bose, “Power Electronics and Motor Drives”, Elsevier, 2010.
2. Bimal K. Bose, “Modern Power Electronics & Drives”, PHI, 2011.
3. Badri Ram “Fundamentals of Microprocessors and Applications”, Dhanpat Rai, 2001.
4. W. Leonard “Control of Electric Drives”, Springer Verlag, 2001.
5. Haitham Abu-Rub, Atif Iqbal, Jaroslaw Guzinski “High Performance Control of AC
Drives”, Wiley, 2012.

SELF STUDY Basic types of Direct-current machines, separately excited generator, star-
connected DC machines, and series connected DC machine, compound-connected DC
machine. Computer Simulation of Induction and Synchronous Machines: Simulation of
symmetrical induction machines in the arbitrary reference frame, simulation of various modes
of operation of symmetrical induction machines. Simulation of synchronous machines