JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY KAKINADA

III YEAR B.TECH . ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING-II Sem

POWER SEMICOONDUCTORS DRIVES
Objective:
This course is an extension of power electronics applications to electric drives. This
course covers in details the basic and advanced speed control techniques using
power electronic converters that are used in industry .It is equally important to
understand the four quadrant operation of electric drives and slip power recovery
schemes in induction motors. These concepts are also discussed in detail in this
course.
UNIT-I:
Review of Speed Control techniques.
DC motor (field flux, armature voltage control),induction motor (stator voltage,
stator frequency, rotor resistance , rotor e.m.f injection), Synchronous motor.
UNIT-II:
Introduction to Thyristor controlled drives. Single Phase semi and fully controlled
converters connected to d.c separately excited and d.c series motors continuous
current operation- - output voltage and current waveforms-Speed and Torque
expressions Speed Torque Characteristics-Problems on Converter fed d.c motors.
UNIT-III:
Control of DC motors by Single phase Converters
Three phase semi and fully controlled converters connected to d.c separately
excited and d.c series motors output voltage and current waveforms-Speed and
Torque expressions-Speed Torque characteristic- Problems.
UNIT-IV
Four Quadrant operations of DC Drives
Introductions to Four quadrant operation- Motoring operations, Electro BrakingPlugging. Dynamic and Regenerative Braking operations. Four quadrant operation of
D.C motors by dual converters- Closed loop operation of DC motor (Block Diagram
Only)
UNIT-V:
Control of DC motors by Choppers
Single quadrant , two quadrant and four quadrant chopper fed dc separately excited
and series excited motors- Continuous current operation-Output voltage and current
wave forms-Speed torque expressions-speed torque characteristics-Closed Loop
operation(Block Diagram Only).
UNIT-VI:
Induction motor control Stator side
Variable voltage characteristics -Control of Induction Motor by AC
Voltage
Controllers-Waveforms-speed
torque
characteristics
Variable
frequency
characteristics-Variable fre3quency control of induction motor by Voltage source
inverter-PWM Control close loop operation of induction motor droves(Block
DiagrammOnly)
UNIT-VII
Control of Induction motor-Rotor side
Static rotor resistance control Slip power recovery Static Scherbius drive Static
Kramer Drive- their performance and speed torque characteristics advantagesapplications.

UNIT-VIII:
Control of Synchronous Motors
Separate control & self control of synchronous motors-Operation of self controlled
synchronous motors by VSI, Closed Loop control operation of synchronous motor
drives(Block Diagram Only), variable frequency control, pulse width modulation.
TEXT BOOKS:

1. Fundamentals of Electric Drives by G K Dubey Narosa Publications

2. 2. Power Electronic Circuits, Devices and applications by M.H.Rashid, PHL
REFERENCE BOOKS:

1. Power Electronics-MD Singh and K B Khanchandani, Tata-Mc Graw-Hill Publishing

company,1998
2. Modern Power Electrics and AC Ddrives by B.K.Bose,PHI
3. Thyristor Control of Electric darives-Vedam SubramanyamTata Mc Graw Hill
publications