POWER ELECTRONIC DRIVE

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

--- 1. With suitable circuit diagram and waveforms explain the principle of oper
ation of speed control of separately excited DC motor fed from single phase full
y controlled rectifier for a) Continuous and b) Discontinuous motor current oper
ations.

2. A 3 phase six pulse bridge converter working on a 500 V, 50Hz supply feeds a
D.C motor having a rated voltage of 250V. The motor is separately excited and dr
aws an armature current of 181 Amps at 250V and runs at 1500 rpm. The motor driv
es a load having a torque-speed characteristic given by TL=0.65 2 ?. If the spee
d control of this motor is required from 1500 to 500 rpm. Determine the range of
firing angles. If the firing angle =0 for operation at rated speed, determine t
he line voltage. What is the firing angle range in this case? What is the advant
age of the second use? Resistance of armature=0.1 ohm.

3. A 3-phase full converting is feeding a highly inductive load. Derive the exp
ressions for average output voltage, max. average output voltage, normalized ave
rage output voltage and the rms value of the output voltage.

4. Discuss in detail the steady-state analysis of a 3 phase converter controlle

d DC motor drive.

5. Develop the flow-chart for simulation of a single-quadrant phase controlled D

C motor drive.Discuss about the expected simulation results, harmonic and associ
ated problems.

6. Explain the principle of operation of the chopper for the first, second, thi
rd, fourth quadrant operations with all relevant diagrams.

7. Draw a block schematic diagram of a speed-controlled separately excited DC mo

tor drive. Discuss in detail about pulse-width modulated current controller and
Hysterisis current controller.

8.a)Develop a flow chart for the Dynamic Simulation of the chopper controlled DC
motor drive. b)Discuss about Dynamic performance of one-quadrant chopper contro
lled separately excited DC motor drive for a step-command in speed reference in
normalized form.

1. a) Sketch the speed-torque characteristics of a dc series motor and explain a

rmature
voltage control method for varying speed of a d.c series motor.
b) A 500 V dc shunt motor with constant field drives a load chose torque is prop
ortional
to the square o f the speed. When running at 900 rpm it takes an armature curren
t of 45A.
Find the speed at which the motor runs if a resistance of 8 ? is connected in se
ries with
the armature. The armature resistance may be taken as 1 ?

2. a) Explain the operation of a single phase semi-converter fed separately exci

ted d.c motor
with the help of speed-torque characteristic for different firing angles.
b) A 220V, 1500 rpm, 11.6 A separately excited d.c motor is controlled by a1-pha
se fully
controlled rectifier with an ac source voltage of 230V, 50 Hz. Enough filter ind
uctance is
added to ensure continuous conduction for any torque greater than 25 percent of
rated
torque Ra = 2? .
i) What should be the value of the firing angle to get the rated torque at 1000r
pm ?
ii) Calculate the motor speed at the rated torque and a = 160 for the regenerati
ve
braking in the second quadrant.

3. a) Explain the operation of a 3- phase semi-converter fed separately excited

dc motor
with the help of suitable voltage and current waveforms. Draw the speed-torque
characteristics for different firing angles and clearly show the boundary betwee
n
continuous and discontinuous conduction
b) Obtain the expression for input power factor for the converter in part (a) as
suming
continuous conduction.
4. Explain the operation of three-phase, fully controlled bridge converter with
RLE load
using suitable waveforms for continuous conduction. Derive the expression for av
erage
load voltage and input power factor assuming ripple free load current
5. a) Obtain the open-loop block diagram of separately excited dc motor drive fr
om
fundamental equations. Also obtain the response due to a step charge in load tor
que.
b) What are the advantages of phase locked loop control of dc drives?
6. a) Explain the principle of regenerative brake control of a chopper fed separ
ately excited
dc motor.
b) A separately excited dc motor with armature resistance of 0.01 ? with dc supp
ly 220
V, 100A , 1000 rpm is fed with chopper for its motoring and braking operations.
Assuming continuous conduction, calculate
i) The duty ratio of the chopper at rated torque with speed of 500rpm for its mo
toring
operation
ii) duty ratio of the chopper at rated torque with speed of 500 rpm for its brak
ing
operation.
7. a) Explain in detail the design of speed controller by symmetric optimum meth
od.
b) Draw the speed controlled dc-motor chopper drive block diagram and explain th
e
operation of pulse-width-modulation current controller.

8. Develop the time domain model and using a flow chart the steps involved in dy
namic
simulation of the chopper controlled dc motor drive.