GH RAISONI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING NAGPUR

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

REPORT ON

SINGLE PHASE FULL WAVE CONTROLLED

RECTIFIER

SUBMITTED BY

FIRDOUS NAAZ SHEIKH

64, B

BBRANCH: ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

SINGLE PHASE FULL WAVE CONTROLLED
RECTIFIER WITH R-LOAD

A full wave rectifier is a circuit which converts an ac voltage

into a pulsating dc voltage using both half cycles of the applied
ac voltage.
A full wave controlled rectifier uses thyristors only and there
is a wider control over the level of dc output voltage with pure
resistive load, it is single quadrant converter. Here both output
voltage and output current are positive. It provides higher dc
output.

Depending upon the circuit configuration the single phase full

wave controlled rectifier is divided into two configuration.

1. Mid point or centre tapped configuration:

It requires two thyristors.

2. Bridge configuration.
It requires four thyristors.
SINGLE PHASE FULL WAVE CONTROLLED RECTIFIER
BRIDGE CONFIGURATION WITH R-LOAD

 The circuit consist of four thyristors T1, T2, T3, and T4, a
voltage source Vs and R load.
 During the positive half cycle of the input voltage, the
thyristors T1 and T2 is forward biased but it does not
conduct until a gate signal is applied to it.
 When a gate pulse is given to the thyristors T1 and T2 at
wt, it gets turned ON and begins to conduct.
 When the T1 and T2 is ON, the input voltage is applied to
the load through the path Vs-T1-Load-T2-Vs.
 During the negative half cycle, T3 and T4 is forward
biased, the thyristor T1 and T2 gets reverse biased and
turns OFF.
 When a gate pulse is given to the thyristor T3 and T4 at
wt, it gets turned ON and begins to conduct.
 When T3 and T4 is ON, the input voltage is applied to the
load Vs-T3-Load-T4-Vs.
 Here the load receives voltage during both the half cycles.
 The average value of output voltage can be varied by
varying the firing angle.
 The waveform shows the plot of input voltage, gate
current, output voltage, output current and voltage
across thyristor.
THE CIRCUIT DIAGRAM AND OUTPUT WAVEFORM OF
SINGLE PHASE FULL WAVE CONYTROLLED RECTIFIER
BRIDGE CONFIGURATION WITH R-LOAD
ADVANTAGES OF SINGLE PHASE FULL WAVE
CONTROLLED RECTIFIER BRIDGE CONFIGURATION
WITH R-LOAD

 The centre tap transformer is eliminated.

 The output is double to that of the centre tapped full
wave rectifier for the same secondary voltage.
 The peak inverse voltage across each diode is one half of
the centre tap circuit of the diode.
 The transformer utilization factor is equal to 0.810 for
bridge rectifier.

REFERENCES;

 http://www.smpstech.com/website.html
 http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/
 http://www.cpes.vt.edu/areas/
 http://www.ni.com/white-paper/14677/en/