SRM UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Engineering and Technology

DEPARTMENT OF EIE
Course Code

EI0308

Course Title

Industrial Drives and Control

Year& Semester

III & VI semester

Course Duration

Even Semester (December - April 2014)

Location

Tech Park

Faculty Details:
Name of the staff

Section

Ms. P. Punitha

EIE - A

Mr J. Vijay Prabhu

EIE - B

Ms.K. Prema

EIE - C

Staff room
Tech Park
15th floor
Tech Park
15th floor
Tech Park
15th floor

Office Hours

Mail ID

08.30- 4. 00 pm

punitha.p@ktr.srmuniv.ac.in

08.30- 4. 00 pm

vijayprabhu.j@ktr.srmuniv.ac.in

08.30- 4. 00 pm

prema.k@ktr.srmuniv.ac.in

Required Text Books:

1. Dubey G.K. and Kasarabada Rao., Power Electronic and Drives, Narosa Publications, 1986
2. Vedam Subramaniyam, Thyristor control of Electric drives, Tata McGraw Hill Publishing
Ltd, 1998

Reference Books:
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Vedam Subramaniyam, Electric Drives, Tata McGraw Hill Ltd, 1994

Pillai S.K., A First course on Electric Drives, Wiley Eastern Ltd, 1989
Singh M.D., Power Electronics, Tata McGraw Hill, N.D., 1998
Dubey G.K., Power Semiconductor controlled Drives, PHI, 1986
Dubey G.K., Fundamentals of Electric Drives, PHI, 1995

Web Resource:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial drives Control_
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Drives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric motors

Prerequisite

: EI0201 Electrical Machine

Objective:
1. Introduction to different types of drives and applications in various industries
2. To know the characteristics of various motors and loads
3. Gain the knowledge about operation of d.c motor speed control using converters and
choppers
4. To understand the modes of operation of a drive in various applications
5. To enable the students identify the need and choice for various drives
6. To acquire the knowledge of different speed control methods in a.c motors using thyristors
based control schemes
7. Identify the use of drives in industries using microprocessor

Tentative Test dates:

Cycle Test I : 07. 02. 2014
Cycle Test II : 07. 03. 2014
Model Exam : 17. 04. 2014

Test Portions:
Cycle Test-I : Unit I and Unit II
Cycle Test-II : Unit III and Unit IV
Model Examination : All five units

Assessment details:
Cycle Test-I
Cycle Test-II
Surprise Test
Modal Exam
Attendance
Total

10 marks
10 marks
5 marks
20 marks
5 marks
50 marks

Outcomes:
Course outcome

SELECTION OF MOTORS
DC DRIVES (QUALITATIVE TREATMENT
ONLY)
THREE PHASE INDUCTION MOTOR
DRIVES
SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR DRIVES
MICROPROCESSORS IN THE CONTROL OF
ELECTRIC DRIVES

Detailed Session Plan:

Program outcome
a: The students will be able to identify the need and
choice of various drives.
b: The students will be exposed to different speed
control methods in D.C and A.C motors using
thyristor based control schemes.
c: Understand how to use Microprocessors in the
control of Electric Drives.

Session

Topics to be covered

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2
3

UNIT-I: Introduction
selection of drive
Rating of motors
Speed - torque characteristics of various
types of loads
Speed - torque characteristics of various
types of drive motors
Joint speed torque characteristics
Starting of various motors
Braking operation and types
Reversing operations
UNIT-II: Speed control of DC motors
Thyristor converter fed DC drives
Single and two quadrant operations.
Four quadrant operation of converter fed
D.C drives
Four quadrant operation of converter fed
D.C drives
Chopper Drives
Operation of step-up and step-down
choppers
Chopper configuration - operation of class
A, B
Operation of class C, D & E choppers
UNIT-III: Introduction to 3 phase
Induction motors
Speed control of Induction motors - Stator
control
Stator voltage and frequency control
AC chopper
Inverter cycloconverter fed induction motor
drives
Rotor control - Rotor resistance control
Slip-power recovery schemes
Static control of rotor resistance using DC
chopper, Static kramer drive
Scherbius drive, Cycloconverter fed drives
UNIT-IV: Introduction to 3 phase
synchronous motors
VSI fed synchronous motors
CSI fed synchronous motors
Cycloconverter fed synchronous motors
Effects of harmonics on the performance of
AC motors
PWM Inverter fed synchronous motors
construction

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Reference
R1,R2, R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5, T2
R5
R1,R2
R1,R2
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R2
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1
R1,R5
R1,T2
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R5
R1,R3,R5

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Principle of operation of variable reluctance

stepper motors
Drive circuits of variable reluctance stepper
motors
Drive circuits of variable reluctance stepper
motors
UNIT-V: Introduction
Basics of microprocessor and programming
Microprocessors in the control of Electric
drives
Applications of microprocessors on
electrical variable speed drive
D.C. motor speed control using a
microprocessor
Induction motor speed control using a
microprocessor
Induction motor speed control using a
microprocessor
Synchronous motor speed control using a
microprocessor
Revision and discussion

R1,R3,R5
R1,R2,R3
R1,R2,R3
R1,T2
R1,R3,T2
R1,R3
R1,R3
R1,R3,T2
R1,R3,T2
R1,R3,T2
R1,R3