Solid State DC Drives
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Solid State DC Drives Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Solid State DC Drives (subject code 3714508) as prescribed for PEAE · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 units, covering 27 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 (3714508)Unit 1 Fundamentals of DC Motor Drive
- Control method of DC motor-armature and field speed control
- Constant torque and constant horse power operations
- Components of torque
- types of load
- Requirements of drives characteristics – multi-quadrant operation
- Drive elements
- types of motor Duty and selection of motor rating
Unit 2 Converter Controlled DC Drive
- Principle of phase control – Fundamental relations
- Analysis of series and separately excited DC motor with single-phase and three-phase converters – waveforms
- performance parameters
- Performance characteristics
- Continuous and discontinuous armature current operations
- Current ripple and its effect on Performance
- Operation with freewheeling diode
- Implementation of braking schemes
- Drive employing dual converter
Unit 3 Chopper Controlled DC Drive
- Introduction to time ratio control and frequency modulation
- Class A, B, C, D and E chopper-controlled DC motors – performance analysis
- multi-quadrant control - Chopper based implementation of Braking schemes
- Multi-phase chopper
- Related problems
Unit 4 Closed Loop Control of DC Drive
- Modelling of drive elements – Equivalent circuit
- transfer function of self
- separately excited DC motors
- Linear Transfer function model of power converters
- Sensing and feedback elements Closed loop speed control – current and speed loops, P, PI and PID controllers –response comparison
- Simulation of converter and chopper fed DC drive
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