Advanced Electrical Drives
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The official GTU curriculum for Advanced Electrical Drives (subject code ME02000671) as prescribed for PE · Semester 2 divides the course into 6 units, covering 76 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 (ME02000671)Unit 1 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
Unit 2 Motor Power Rating Selection and Load Diagram
- General considerations in selecting motor power ratings
- continuous duty cycle
- short time duty cycle
- Intermittent duty cycle
- Insulation classes
- Motor heating and cooling under various duty cycles
- Selection of motor GUJARATTECHNOLOGICALUNIVERSITY ProgramName: Master of Engineering Level: PG Subject Code: ME02000671 Course / Subject Name: Advanced Electrical Drives. power capacity
- equivalent current
- torque and power methods
- Load diagrams
Unit 3 Synchronous Motor Drive
- Synchronous motor and its characteristics
- Control strategies
- Open loop voltage source inverter (VSI) fed drive and its characteristics
- Torque angle control
- Power factor control
- constant flux control
- Brushless excitation systems
- Field oriented control
- Load commutated inverter fed synchronous motor drive
- motoring and regeneration
- current source inverter (CSI) fed synchronous motor
- Closed loop operation of Synchronous motor drive systems
- Cyclo-converter fed Synchronous Motor
Unit 4 Switched Reluctance Motor Drive
- Construction and working of Switched reluctance motor(SRM)
- Stator Excitation
- Torque characteristic
- Flux characteristics
- Control techniques
- Voltage impulse control
- current control
- torque control
- Torque Ripple
- Instantaneous Torque control using current controllers
- flux controllers
- Converters for switched reluctance machine
- Eight switch asymmetrical converter
- Six switch converter for SRM drive
- Variable dc link converter
- Buck-boost converter
- Torque controlled SRM, SRM drive with speed/position sensor
- Direct Torque Control of SRM Drive
- Sensor-less Control of SRM Drives
- linear switched reluctance motor
Unit 5 Synchronous Reluctance Motor Drive
- Constructional features and working principle of Synchronous Reluctance Motor
- Torque equation
- Phasor diagram
- Types of Synchronous Reluctance Motor
- Control Strategies and Important Parameters
- Block diagram of Synchronous reluctance Drive System
- Advantages and disadvantages
- Applications of Synchronous Reluctance Motor
Unit 6 Traction drives
- Electric traction services
- Nature of traction load
- Main line and suburban train configurations
- Calculations of traction drive rating and energy consumption
- Important features of Traction Drives
- Traction motors
- Conventional dc and ac traction drives
- 25 kV ac traction using semiconductor converter controlled dc motors
- Poly- phase ac motors for traction drives
- dc traction employing poly-phase ac motors
- ac traction employing poly-phase ac motors
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