Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education

Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka

Higher National Diploma in Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Module Number EE2104 Title Electrical Machines A

Year Second Year Semester 01

Number of Hours 75 Credit
Hours
Hours Per Week:
Theory 02 Tutorial Practical 03 Filed
Visits(Other)
Day /Time/Hall

Learning Outcomes:

Students are able to understand the construction, behavior and the optimal operation of
DC machines, AC machines, Transformers and Rectifiers.

Syllabus
1. Direct-Current Machines 7 hrs
Essential components (of D.C. machines) & their functions, D.C. Armature
Windings. Open-circuit characteristic and load characteristics of D.C. generators,
Torque/Armature Current; Speed/Armature Current; Torque/Speed characteristics
of D.C. motors. Starting of D.C. motors. Speed control methods.

2. Alternating Current Machines 8 hrs

Construction, operation, characteristics, relative performance and methods of
starting three-phase squirrel cage and wound rotor and, single-phase induction
motors. Construction, operation, characteristics and methods of starting
synchronous motors and synchronous induction motors. Speed, torque and power,
and the shape of the torque speed characteristic for a three-phase induction motor.

3. Transformers, 7 hrs
Construction, operation, BS terminal markings and connection and phasor
diagrams for star and delta methods of connection. Losses, efficiency, power
factors and load factor of transformers. Measuring techniques of losses and no
load & load tests. Voltage-ratio; current-ratio. Equivalent-circuit. Parallel
operation of transformers.

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 4. Rectifiers 8 hrs
Understanding of methods of connection, the performance, the causes of ripple
and filters for smoothing in three-phase rectifiers

Recommended Text Books :

1. Alternating Current Machines H Cotton, Cleaver Hume Press, London

2. Alternating Current Machines E Hughes
3. Electrical Machinery A E Fitzgerald
4. Textbooks of Electrical Machines P P Ramlley & M P Mittal

List of Particles
1. Motor Controls
2. Phase controlled rectifiers
3. Inverter

Schedule of Lectures (to be prepared by the Lecture and approved by the module
coordinator to be distributed to the students on the day of commencement of the module):

Week Topic Hours Lecturer Resource Remarks

Person/
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03
04
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06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
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18 End Semester Exam

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