19eee312 Edc Courseplan - 23-24even
19eee312 Edc Courseplan - 23-24even
Course Objectives: To impart knowledge on DC and AC electric drives for various applications and identify
right choice of electric drive for major applications.
Course Outcomes:
CO1: Understanding of the steady state and dynamic characteristics of AC, DC & special electrical drives
and controls.
CO2: Ability to apply the fundamental concepts of AC and DC machines and various power converters for
the development of electric drive systems.
CO3: Ability to analyse the performance of DC and AC motor drives under various operating conditions.
CO4: Ability to develop various controllers for DC and AC electric drives for different applications
CO5: Ability to validate various AC, DC drive & special electrical drives using simulation and hardware.
CO – PO Mapping
Syllabus
Unit 1 Introduction: Concepts, and classification of Electric drives. Selection of motors. Dynamics
of Electric drives: Types of loads, Multi quadrant operations, motor dynamics steady state
stability and transient stability. Rating and Heating of motors: Heating effects, heating and
cooling curves, classes of duty, load equalization, environmental factors.
DC motor drives: Basic characteristics, Operating modes, Single phase and three phase-
controlled rectifier fed DC drives, Dual converters drives, Chopper drives, Rheostatic and
regenerative braking, effects of changes in supply voltage and load torque, closed loop control
schemes.
Unit 2 AC motor drives: Induction motor drives, stator voltage control, stator impedance control,
rotor voltage control- Slip power recovery, Concepts of Static Kramer drives and Static
Scherbius drive, V/f control, Current control method. Need for harmonic filter, Closed loop
control. Introduction to vector control scheme.
Unit 3 Synchronous motors: Speed torque characteristics and torque angle characteristics. Fixed
and variable frequency operation modes, Self-control modes.
Hardware: DC Speed control- Converter fed DC motor – Induction motor drive- Speed Control-
Closed loop and open loop.
Virtual lab/ Simulation - Phase controlled DC motor drives, Chopper controlled DC motor
drives-modelling of DC motor-modelling of induction motor- Closed loop control of DC and AC
Drives.
Textbook:
References:
1. Pillay. S.K, A First Course on Electric Drives, Wilely Eastern Limited, Bombay, 2012
2. B.K Bose, ‘Power Electronics and AC Drives’, Prentice Hall, New Jersy, 2002.
3. V. Subrahmanyam,’ Thyristor Control of Electric Drives’, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi,
1988.
4. R. Krishnan, ’Electric Motor Drives, Modelling, Analysis and Control’, Prentice Hall, NJ,
2001.
5. Muhammad H. Rashid, Power Electronics, Circuits, Devices and Applications, Third Edition,
Pearson Education Press, 2004.
Evaluation Pattern: