ELECTRICAL MACHINE I

Denn A. Agatep
Email: denn_agatep@hotmail.com

CP No. 09454821243

Department of Electrical Engineering

College of Engineering
Cagayan State University
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 COURSE CONTENT
Module I – (week 1 – 4)
1. INTRODUCTION:
a) Electromechanical Energy Conversion Principles
b) Forces, and Torque in Magnetic Field Systems
c) Energy Balance
d) Energy and Force in a Singly Excited Magnetic Field System
e) Determination of Magnetic Force and Torque Form Energy
f) Energy and Co-energy
e) Multiply-excited Magnetic Field Systems
2. DC GENERATORS
a) Principle of Operation
b) Action of Commutator
c) Constructional Features
d) Armature Windings – Lap and Wave Windings, Simplex and Multiplex Windings
e) Use of Laminated Armature
f) E.M.F. Equation
g) Methods of Excitation - Separately and Self Excited Generators, Shunt, Series, and Compound
Machine
h) Build Up of E.M.F.
i) Critical Field Resistance and Critical Speed
j) Causes for Failure to Self Excite and Remedial Measures
k) Armature Recation
l) Cross Magnetizing and Demagnetizing Ampere Turns/ Pole (AT)
m) Compensating Winding
n) Commutation
o) Reactance Voltage
p) Methods of Improving Commutation – Resistance Commutation, EMF Commutation and Interpoles
and Compoles
3. DC MACHINES CHARACTERISTICS
a) No-load and Load Characteristics of Separately Excited Generator
b) Characteristics of a Shunt Generator
 c) Characteristics of Compound Generator
4. PARALLEL OPERATION OF DC GENERATOR
a) Advantages
b) Connecting Shunt Generator in Parallel
c) Equalizer Bar
d) Load Sharing

Module II – (week 5 – 10)

1. DC MOTORS
a) Principle of Operation
b) Back E.M.F.
c) Torque Equation
3. CHARACTERISTICS AND APPLICATION OF DC MOTORS
a) Shunt Motors
b) Series Motors
c) Compound Motors
4. ARMATURE REACTION AND COMMUTATION
5. STARTING OF DC MOTOR
a) Principle of Operation of 3 and 4 point Starter
b) Drum Controller
c) Constant and Variable Losses
d) Calculation of Efficiency
e) Condition for Maximum efficiency
5. SPEED CONTROL OF DC MOTORS
a) Armature voltage and Field Flux Control Method
b) Ward Leonard Method
6. METHOD OF TESTING IN A DC MOTOR
a) Direct, Indirect, and Regenerative Testing
b) Brake Test
c) Swinburne’s Test
d) Load Test
e) Hopkinson’s Test
 f) Field’s Test
g) Retardation Test
h) Separation of Stray Losses in a DC Motor Test.

Module III – (week 11 – 18)

1. SINGLE PHASE TRANSFORMERS
a) Single Phase Transformer Construction Details – Core, Windings and Insulation
b) Principle of Operation – EMF Equation, Magnetizing Current and Core Losses, No Load and On
Load Operation
c) Phasor Diagram and Equivalent Circuit
d) Losses and efficiency, Condition for Maximum Efficiency
e) Voltage Regulation and Approximate Expression for Voltage Regulation
f) Open Circuit and Short Circuit Test
g) Harmonics in Single Phase Transformer
h) Parallel Operation of Transformer
2. THREE PHASE TRANSFORMERS
a) Construction
b) Connections
c) Equal and Unequal Turns Ratio
d) Parallel Operation
e) Load Sharing
f) All Day Efficiency
3. AUTOTRANSFORMERS