EC 261

Analog Electronics
Lab File

Delhi Technological University

INSTRUCTOR: MRS. SHIVANI YADAV MA’M

DONE BY

ROLL NO: 2K20/CO/130

NAME: CHETAN JANGIR

 Experiment - 8
Capacitive Rectification
Objective :-
At the end of the experiment, one should be able to:
 Understand Filtering of Rectified signal

 Understand Ripple Voltage and Ripple Factor

 Understand Capacitive filtering

Tools Used:- Virtual lab setup

http://vlabs.iitkgp.ernet.in/be

THEORY &DISCUSSION:

RECTIFIER

The device which converts alternating (bidirectional) voltage to pulsating

(Unidirectional) voltage is called rectifier. As the name specifies it rectifies
some portion of the alternating signal and provides a unidirectional signal
at the output. This is achieved by the electronic element called
semiconductor diode. The semiconductor diode is the element which allows
the signal in one direction and blocks the signal in reverse direction i.e.,
converting bidirectional into unidirectional.
FILTER

The devices which converts the pulsating DC in to pure DC is called filter.

As the name specifies it filters the oscillations in the signal and provides a
pure DC at the output. The electronic reactive elements like capacitor and
inductors are used to do this work.

FILTERING

From our filtering experiments we have seen that the simplest kind of filter
that can perform the filtering task just described is a capacitor. Thus, if we
connect a capacitor directly across the output of a rectifier, the AC
components will ‘see’ a low impedance path to ground and will not,
therefore appear in the output.
FULL WAVE RECTIFIER

The smoothing capacitor converts the full-wave rippled output of the

rectifier into a smooth dc output voltage. The detailed description of its
filtering action is already explained in half-wave rectifier handout.
Two important parameters to consider when choosing a suitable a
capacitor are its working voltage, which must be higher than the no-
load output value of the rectifier and its capacitance value, which
determines the amount of ripple that will appear superimposed on top
of the dc voltage.
Apart from rectification efficiency, the main advantages of a full-wave
bridge rectifier is that it has a smaller ac ripple value for a given load
and a smaller smoothing capacitor than an equivalent half-wave
rectifier.
The amount of ripple voltage that is superimposed on top of the dc
supply voltage by the diodes can be virtually eliminated by adding
other improved filters such as a pi-filter.
RIPPLE VOLTAGE AND RIPPLE FACTOR

Ripple Voltage As you have seen, the capacitor quickly charges at the
beginning of a cycle and slowly discharges through RL after the positive
peak of the input voltage (when the diode is reverse-biased). The
variation in the capacitor voltage due to the charging and discharging is
called the ripple voltage. Generally, ripple is undesirable; thus, the
smaller the ripple, the better the filtering action.

As the voltage across the load resistor is only present during the positive
half of the cycle, the resultant voltage is "ON" and "OFF" during every
cycle resulting in a low average dc value. This variation on the rectified
waveform is called "Ripple" and is an undesirable feature. The ripple factor
is a measure of purity of the D.C. output of a rectifier.

CAPACITIVE FILTIRING

The elegant quality of the capacitor is it stores the electrical energy for short
time and discharges it. By controlling the charging and discharging rate of
the capacitor the pure DC can be obtained from the pulsating DC. In simple
the capacitor allows AC and blocks DC, so the capacitor can connect parallel
to the power supply so that the AC is filtered out and DC will reach the load.
Simulator Readings