Industrial Drives and Control
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Industrial Drives and Control Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Industrial Drives and Control (subject code 2171707) as prescribed for IC · Semester 7 divides the course into 5 units, covering 19 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2171707)Unit 1 Electrical Drives- An Introduction
- Electrical Drives-Advantages of electrical drives-components of electrical drives-selection of electrical drives
Unit 2 Modelling of DC Machines
- Theory of operation-Induced Emf-equivalent circuit & Electromagnetic Torque-Electro-mechanical Modelling-State-Space Modelling-Block Diagram & Transfer Function-Field Excitation-Measurement of Motor Constants
Unit 3 Control of DC Drives
- Controlled rectifier based drives
- Modes of operation-Speed control & Drive classification-Closed Loop speed control of Drives
Unit 4 Chopper Controlled DC Motor Drive
- Introduction-Principle of operation of the Chopper-Four-quadrant Chopper Circuit-Chopper for Inversion-Model of Chopper-Input to the Chopper-Other Chopper Circuits-Closed Loop Operation
Unit 5 Frequency Controlled Induction Motor Drives
- Introduction-static Frequency Changers-Voltage Source Inverter- Voltage Source Inverter driven induction motor---Voltage Waveforms
- Real power
- Reactive power
- Speed control
- Constant Volts/Hz control— Relation between voltage & frequency
- Implementation of Volts/Hz strategy
- Induction motor Speed control by the use of adjustable frequency PWM inverters—properties of PWM waveforms
- single pulse 08 19 modulation
- Multi-pulse modulation
- sinusoidal modulation 8 Special motor drive: Stepper Motor Drive Stepper motors-variable reluctance
- Permanent Magnet
- Important Features of stepper motor
- torque versus stepping rate characteristic
- Drive circuit for stepper motors Introduction of Brushless DC motor Introduction of dc servo control