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DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

COURSE PLAN
Sub. Code : EE6351
Branch / Year / Sem : B.E MECH
/ II /III
Sub.Name : Electrical Drives & Controls
Batch
: 20142018

COURSE OBJECTIVE
1. To understand the basic concepts of Drives, Electric drives, types and
factors
influencing the choice of electrical drives.
2. To understand the working principle of DC &AC motors and their
characteristics and its
braking methods.
3. To understand the Starting methods of DC &AC motors.
4. To understand the Concepts of speed control in DC motors & AC motors.
TEXT BOOKS
T1. Vedam Subrahmaniam, Electric Drives (concepts and applications), Tata
McGraw- Hill,
2001.
T2. Nagrath .I.J. & Kothari .D.P, Electrical Machines, Tata McGraw-Hill, 1998.
REFERENCE BOOKS
R1.

M.D.Singh, K.B.Khanchandani, Power Electronics, Tata McGraw-Hill,

1998.
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UNIT I
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1.

Basic Elements

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INTODUCTION
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2.

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Types of Electric
1
T1
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Drives
3. Factor influencing
the choice of
T1
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1
electrical
459
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drives
4. Heating and cooling
T1
BB
1
curves
5. Loading conditions
T1
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and
2
classes of duty
6. Selection of power
rating for drive
467485
motors
T1
BB
with regard to
2
thermal
overloading and load
variation factors
LEARNING OUTCOME
At the end of unit, students should be able to
Understand basic requirements placed by mechanical systems on electric drives.

1
2

4
6

UNIT II
CHARACTERISTICS
(9)
7. Mechanical
361T2
382
characteristics
8. Torque
characteristics of
T2
various types of load
and drive motors
9. Braking of Electrical
408T2
410
Motors
10. DC motors: Shunt,
T2
series and compound
11. single phase and
593638
three phase
T2
induction motors
LEARNING OUTCOME
At the end of unit, students should be able to

DRIVE MOTOR
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12

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13

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15

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17

UNIT III
(8)
12. Types of D.C Motor
starters
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T2

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13. Typical control

circuits for shunt and

series motors
14. Three phase squirrel
638T2
cage and slip ring
645
induction motors.
LEARNING OUTCOME
At the end of unit, students should be able to

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UNIT IV
CONVENTIONAL AND SOLID STATE SPEED CONTROL OF DC
DRIVES
(10)
15. Speed control of DC
T2
390
-404
BB
2
27
series and shunt
motors
16. Armature and field
BB
2
29
control
17. Ward-Leonard control
404
T2
BB
2
31
-406
System
18. Using controlled
132
R1
BB
2
33
rectifiers -216
applications
19. DC choppers386
R1
BB
2
35
-474
applications
LEARNING OUTCOME
At the end of unit, students should be able to

UNIT V
CONVENTIONAL AND SOLID STATE SPEED CONTROL OF AC
DRIVES
(10)
20. Speed control of
BB
3
38
three phase
induction motor
884
R1
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21. Voltage control,
BB
2
40
voltage / frequency
control
22. slip power recovery
931
R1
BB
2
42
-936
scheme
23. Using inverters and
315
AC voltage
-339
R1
BB
3
45
536
regulators
576
Applications.
LEARNING OUTCOME
At the end of unit, students should be able to

COURSE OUTCOME
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At the end of the course, the students will be able to

Analyze the working of Cellular Networks & its supporting technologies
like GSM, GPRS

CONTENT BEYOND THE SYLLABUS

1. Case study of Smart Home

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ASSIGNMENT I (10) 15ASSIGNMENT II (20)
Descriptive Questions
1. Discuss in details the 1.
various
factors
which
affect the selection
of
electrical drive for
particular
applications.
2. Explain the different 2.
classes of motor duty
with the equation.
3. Explain speedtorque 3.
Characteristics of
different types of
load
with graph.

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