OVERVIEW OF ELECTRICAL DRIVE
Basic Elements – Types of Electric Drives – factors influencing the choice of electrical drives – heating and cooling curves – Loading conditions and classes of duty – Selection of power rating
for drive motors with regard to thermal overloading and load variation factors
Constructional details, principle of operation and performance characteristics of D.C. motors, single phase induction motor, three phase induction motor, synchronous motor, universal motor, servo motor, stepper motor and reluctance motor, PMDC, BLDC Motor.
SPEED CONTROL AND STARTING
Speed control of D.C series and shunt motors- speed control of single and three phase induction motors –starting methods of D.C. motor and three phase induction
SOLID STATE SPEED CONTROL OF D.C DRIVES
Power electronic devices, Controlled rectifiers and choppers, Speed control of DC series and shunt motors using controlled rectifiers and DC choppers -Application of DC Servo drives in
mechatronics
SOLID STATE SPEED CONTROL OF A.C DRIVES
Inverters and voltage regulators, Speed control of three phase induction motor – Voltage control, voltage / frequency control and slip power recovery scheme using inverters and AC voltage regulators – applications
Reference Book:
Metha. V.K. & Rohit Metha, "Principle of Electrical Engineering", S.Chand & Co 2016
Vedam Subramaniam. "Electric Drives", Tata McGraw Hill , New Delhi , 2017.
P.S Bimbhra, “Power Electronics”, Khanna Publishers, Pvt Ltd, 2014
Dubey.G.K. “Fundamental Electrical Drives” 2nd Edition, Narosa Publications, 2012
Bhattacharya S.K. & Brijinder Singh , "Control of Electrical Machines", New Age
International Publishers, 2012
Text Book:
D.P.Kothari and I.J.Nagrath, “Basic Electrical Engineering”, Tata McGraw Hill publishing company ltd, second edition, 2017
S.K.Pillai, “ A First Course on Electrical Drives” New age publishing Ltd, 2019.
