Industrial Drives
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The official GTU curriculum for Industrial Drives (subject code 2722911) as prescribed for PE · Semester 2 divides the course into 7 units, covering 42 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 (2722911)Unit 1 Fundamental of Electric Drives Modelling of Electrical Machines
- Concepts of Electric Drives
- Control Scheme
- Speed torque characteristics of motors
- Mathematical modelling of Electrical Machines
- Reference frame Theory
- Analysis of AC, DC machines
- Linear equations of AC and DC machines
- Duty cycles & ratings
Unit 2 Converter Control of DC motor
- Principal of phase angle control
- steady state analysis
- performance parameters
- performance characteristics
- two quadrant DC motor drive
- Four quadrant DC motor drive
- Harmonics and associated problems
- closed loop operation
- Modelling of DC machines
Unit 3 Chopper Control of DC motor
- Principal of operation
- Four quadrant operation of chopper circuit
- steady state analysis of Chopper controlled DC motor drive
- closed loop operation
Unit 4 Induction Motor Control
- Scalar controls of induction motor drive
- stator voltage control
- rotor resistance control
- frequency control
- current control
- Analysis of CSI and VSI fed AC drive
- Generalized operation of induction motor with impressed voltages of non sinusoidal waveform
- Analysis using equivalent circuit
- harmonics losses
Unit 5 Field Oriented Control
- Principle of Field control of induction machines
- direct vector control
- indirect vector control scheme
- Flux vector estimation
- Space vector modulation control
Unit 6 Direct torque Control
- Direct torque control of induction machine
- Torque expression with stator and rotor flux
- DTC control strategy
- reduction of torque ripple methods
Unit 7 Variable Frequency Synchronous Motor Drive
- Open loop inverter fed synchronous motor drive
- self synchronous operation
- operating characteristics and control