Advanced Industrial Drives
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Advanced Industrial Drives Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Industrial Drives (subject code 3172422) as prescribed for PE · Semester 7 divides the course into 6 units, covering 33 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 (3172422)Unit 1 Introduction
- Electric Drives – Advantage –Parts of Drives- Choice of Drives – State of Art for Special Electrical Machine – Limitation – Application – Electric Drive System – Component used for obtaining signals interlocking and sequencing operation – Protection
Unit 2 Special Electrical Machines
- Brushless DC Machines Construction and working principle
- Equivalent magnetic circuit
- Type of converter and speed control
- Comparison between the axial and radial permanent magnet motors
- PMSM Introduction
- Features of PMSM
- industrial aspects
- Construction and working of PMSM Linear Induction Machines Construction
- control, and applications SRM, PMAF Machine 8 Subject Code: 3172422 W
Unit 3 Control of Special Electrical Machines
- Stepper Motor: Characteristics – Open Loop and Closed Loop Control – Control Strategies - Power Converter Circuit – Microprocessor
- DSP and Microcontroller based Control Switched Reluctance Motor: Characteristics – Open Loop and Closed Loop Control – Control Strategies - Power Converter Circuit – Microprocessor
- DSP and Microcontroller based Control – Sensor less control Servo Motor: Characteristics – Open Loop and Closed Loop Control – Control Strategies - Power Converter Circuit – Microprocessor
- DSP and Microcontroller based Control
Unit 4 Control of Special Electrical Machines
- PMDC and BLDC Motor: Characteristics – Open Loop and Closed Loop Control – Control Strategies - Power Converter Circuit – Microprocessor
- DSP and Microcontroller based Control PMSM Motor: Characteristics – Open Loop and Closed Loop Control – Control Strategies - Power Converter Circuit – Microprocessor
- DSP and Microcontroller based Control PMAF Machine: Characteristics – Open Loop and Closed Loop Control – Control Strategies -Power Converter Circuit – Microprocessor
- DSP and Microcontroller based Control
Unit 5 Linear Induction Machine
- Construction – Types – Working –Feature – Thrust Equation – Control – Application Linear Synchronous Machine: Construction – Types – Working –Feature – Thrust Equation – Control – Application DC Linear Motor: Construction – Types – Working –Feature – Thrust Equation – Control – Application Linear Reluctance Motor: Construction – Types – Working –Feature – Thrust Equation – Control – Application
Unit 6 Energy Conservation in Electrical Drives
- Standard motor efficiency
- concept of Energy efficient motor
- Efficiency evaluation technique
- Direct Measurement method
- Loss in Electric Drive System
- Segregation method
- motor efficiency labeling
- Energy efficient motor standards
- Motor life cycle
- Direct Savings and pay back analysis
- Efficiency evaluation factor
- Improvement of Power Factor
- Quality of Supply
- Harmonics Reduction and mitigation technique