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Coimbatore 19 Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering MODEL EXAM

Year/Branch: II Year/ MECH Semester: III Sub Code/Sub Name: ME2205/Electrical drives & control Time: 3hrs Part-A (7x2=14) Max. Marks: 100 Date: .10.2013

1. Define cooling and heating time constant of an electrical machine. 2. Name the four commonly used methods for the determination of power rating of motors. 3. What is meant by continuous rating? What is meant by plugging in DC motor? 4. Mention the various factors that influencing the choice of electrical drives. 5. Write down the equation for the back emf of D.C. motor in terms of flux / poles and speed. 6. What are the factors influencing the selection of starters? 7. Why starter is necessary for starting a DC Motor? 8. What is meant by flux control (or) field control method? What is meant by solid state speed control? 9. What is meant by duty cycle? What is free-wheeling? 10. What is slip-power recovery system? What is meant by Cyclo converter?

Part-B (3x12=36) 11.a. (i) Express in a neat diagram, heating and cooling curves of electrical drive. (8) (ii) Explain with neat diagram of braking in DC motors. (iii) Describe the types of DC motor with neat sketch. (4) (Or) (4)

b. (i) Describe in a neat diagram of selection and power rating of electrical drive with overloading. (8)
(ii)At full load of a 25 HP motor, the temperature rise of a motor is 35C for after one hour after two hours. Find the following (i)The final temperature rise on full load,

thermal
and 55C (8)

(ii)Heating time constant of a motor, (iii)Half hour rating if iron loss which remains constant is 70% of copper looses at full load.

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Coimbatore 19 Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering MODEL EXAM
12.a (i) what is meant by slip recovery scheme? And explain its operation with neat diagram.(both Kramer and scherbius) (8) (ii)Draw and explain the operation of static slip recovery scheme. (Static Kramer and static scherbius) (8) (or)
b. (i) Explain with diagram about Ward-Leonard system of speed control of DC motor.(8)

(ii)Explain with neat sketch about single phase semi-controlled converter fed DC motor drive(8) 13. a. (i)Draw and explain with suitable example the various types of classes of Duty.(8) (ii)Draw and explain the construction and working principle of 4 point starter.(4) (iii)Draw and explain the construction and working principle of 3 point starter.(4) (Or) b. (i) Draw and explain the Torque-Slip characteristics of 3 phase induction motor.(8) (ii)Draw and explain the stator side speed control methods available for induction motor.(8) 14 a.(i) Explain the speed control methods available for slip ring induction motor.(8) (ii)Explain the principle and operation of different types of braking. (8) (Or) b. (i) Explain in detail about first quadrant DC chopper drive and also draw the waveform (8) (ii) Draw and explain the starter diagram which is used to start the slip ring induction motor. (Rotor resistance starter) (8)

15. a. (i) describe the working of step-down chopper, with the help of a suitable circuit diagram and wave form .state the relation between input and output voltage .how is the speed of the dc motor controlled using a step down chopper. (8) (ii) A 100v shunt motor has armature resistance and field resistance of 0.4ohms and 100ohms respectively. At a particular constant torque load ,it takes a current of 25A at the speed of 1200rpm .a chopper is used to control the speed of the motor .find Ton to reduce the speed to 800 rpm at a chopper frequency of 500Hz . (8) (Or) b. (i) state and explain the various schemes adopted for speed control of induction motor using voltage source inverter (8) (ii) A 250V,10KW,1200prm Dc shunt motor has a full load efficiency of 80 %.its field and armature resistance are 110 ohms and .25ohms respectively. Calculate the value of the resistance to be inserted in series with the armature and the power lost in the armature circuit to reduce the speed to 80% when the load torque is constant regardless of the speed.