DC Motor Drives
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The official GTU curriculum for DC Motor Drives (subject code DI04024011) as prescribed for AI & DS · Semester 4 divides the course into 5 units, covering 41 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 (DI04024011)Unit 1 Characteristics of DC Motors and Dynamics of Electric Drives
- Characteristics of Separately exited DC motor
- DC shunt motor
- DC series motor
- compound motor
- Speed control of separately exited DC motor: by adding resistance in armature circuit
- by adjusting armature voltage and field voltage
- Speed control of DC series motor: by adding resistance in armature circuit
- Electric drive: Concept
- block diagram
- Basic Elements and advantages
- dynamic condition of electric drive
- stability of electric drive
- Load torques: depends on the path/position
- varies with shaft angle
- varies with time
Unit 2 1– Ø Controlled converters and Drives
- 1- Ø Half wave-controlled converter with RL load (with and without freewheeling diode)
- 1-Ø Half-wave converter drive for Separately Exited D.C
- Motor. 1- Ø semi converter with RL load
- 1-Ø Semi converter Drive with continuous armature current for Separately Exited D.C
- Dual converter: analysis
- 1- Ø dual converter drive for separately exited DC motor
Unit 3 3– Ø Controlled converters and Drives
- 3- Ø half wave-controlled converter with R load
- 3-Ø Half wave converter drives with separately exited DC Motor. 3-Ø semi converter with R Load
- 3-Ø Semi Converter Drives with separately exited DC Motor. 3-Ø fully controlled bridge Converter with R Load
- 3-Ø Full Converter drives with separately exited DC Motor
Unit 4 DC Chopper Drives Chopper circuits
- First quadrant OR type-A chopper
- Second quadrant OR type-B chopper
- Two quadrant type A OR type-C chopper
- Two quadrant type B OR Type D chopper
- Four quadrant OR Type E chopper
- Chopper drives: Two quadrant Chopper Drives and Four quadrant chopper drives
- Power control and Regenerative breaking control of chopper drives
- Program Name: Diploma Engineering Level: Diploma Branch: Power Electronics Engineering Subject Code: DI04024011 Subject Name: DC Motor Drives
Unit 5 Breaking and Heating of DC motor. Breaking
- Methods of Electric Braking of Electric Motors
- Breaking of DC motor: Regenerative breaking for shunt and series motors
- Dynamic Breaking for shunt and series motors
- Counter current Breaking for shunt and series motors
- Heating: Classify classes with material with temperature
- Modes of duties: Continuous duty
- short time duty
- intermittent load cycle
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