ELECTRIC DRIVES AND CONTROL

Course Objectives:

1. To understand the basic concepts and various control techniques involved with DC and AC Drives.

2. To study and analyze the operation of the converter / chopper fed dc drive and to solve simple
problems.

3. To study and understand the operation of both classical and modern induction motor drives.

Course Outcomes

Upon completion of the course, students shall have ability to

1 Understand the concept, application fields and development trend of Power Drivers System.

2 Learn characteristics and control of solid state DC motors drives

3 Understand the stable steady state operation and transient dynamics of motor-load system.

4 Understand characteristics and control of induction motor drives & Synchronous motor drives

5 Apply digital control techniques in AC and DC drives

6 Analyze the converter fed motor under different torque/speed conditions.

Course Contents

Drive characteristics: Equations governing motor load dynamics - Equilibrium operating point and its
steady state stability -Mathematical condition for steady state stability - Multi quadrant dynamics in the
speed torque plane -Basics of braking –Dynamic braking-Plugging-Regenerative braking Typical load
torque characteristics -Acceleration, deceleration, starting and stopping. Dc motor drives: Steady state
analysis of single, two and four quadrant converter fed D.C motor drive: Continuous and discontinuous
conduction mode - Chopper fed D.C drive: Time ratio control and current limit control -Operation of four
quadrant chopper. Induction motor drives: Stator voltage control - Slip-power recovery drives -
Adjustable frequency drives: v/f control, constant slip-speed control and constant air-gap flux control –
Basics of voltage/current fed inverters – Block diagram of closed loop drive. Synchronous motor drives:
Open loop volts/hertz control and self-control of synchronous motor: Marginal angle control and power
factor control - Permanent magnet synchronous motor. Applications of Adjustable Speed Drives (ASDs)
in Industries and in Electric Utility Power Plants. Harmonic Analysis in ASDs. Digital control and drive
applications: Digital techniques in speed control - Advantages and limitations -
Microprocessor/Microcontroller and PLC based control of drives, networking of drives - Selection of
drives and control schemes for Steel rolling mills, Paper mills, Cement mills, Machine tools, Lifts and
Cranes. Solar and battery powered drives.

Text Books:

1. R. Krishnan, Electric Motor & Drives: Modeling, Analysis and Control‘, Prentice Hall of India, New
Delhi, 2011.

2. Gopal.K.Dubey, Fundamentals of Electrical Drives‘, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, 2012.