Fundamentals of Electric Drives – Assignment-I based on Unit-I,

Unit-II and Unit-III

Note: Submit in A4 sheets on or before 06-03-2023. Each question
carries 1 Mark.
1. A 230 V, single-phase, 50 Hz supply feeds the armature and field circuits of a separately
excited dc motor through two full converters. The firing angle of converter in the field
circuit is zero. The armature and field resistances are (0.25+0.001*last two digits of your
roll number) Ω and 200 Ω respectively. The torque and voltage constants are 1.1, the firing
angle of converter in the armature circuit is 450 and the armature current is 50 A. Find the
torque developed and the motor speed. Assume that the brush contact drop is 1 V/brush.
2. A single phase 230 V, 50 Hz supply feeds a separately excited dc motor through two single
phase semi converters, one for the field and the other for the armature. The firing angle for
the semi-converter in field circuit is zero, the field resistance is 200 Ω and the armature
resistance Ra is (0.3+0.001*last two digits of your roll number) Ω. The load torque is 50
N-m at 900 rpm, the voltage constant is 0.8 V/A-rad/s and the torque constant is 0.8 N-
m/A2. Assume that the armature and field currents are continuous and constant, and neglect
the losses. Find the following.
(i) The field current
(ii) The firing angle of semi-converter in the armature circuit.
(iii) The power factor of semi-converter in the armature circuit.

3. The speed of a 150 HP, 650 V, 1750 rpm separately excited dc motor is controlled by a
three phase full converter. The converter is operating from a three phase, 460V, 50 Hz
supply. The rated armature current of the motor is 170 A. The motor parameters are Ra =
(0.099+0.001*last two digits of your roll number) Ω; La = 0.73 mH and Kaɸ = 0.33 V/rpm.
Neglect the losses in the converter system. Determine the following: (i) No load speeds at
firing angles α = 00 and α = 300. Assume that at no load, the armature current is 10 % of
the rated current and is continuous. (ii) The firing angle to obtain rated speed of 1750 rpm
of rated motor current and also compute the supply power factor. (iii) The speed regulation
for the firing angle obtained in part (ii).

4. A 220 V, 1500 rpm, 50 A separately excited dc motor is fed from 3-phase full converter.
Motor armature resistance is (0.5+0.001*last two digits of your roll number) Ω. Full
converter is connected to 440 V, 50 Hz source through a delta-star transformer, so that the
motor terminal voltage equals the rated voltage when converter firing angle is zero. Find
the following. (i) Calculate the transformer phase turns ration from primary to secondary.
(ii) Calculate the firing angle delay of the converter when the motor is running at 1200 rpm
at rated torque. (iii) Calculate the firing angle delay of the converter when the motor is
running at -800 rpm and twice the rated torque.
5. A 220 V, 200 A, 800 rpm DC separately excited motor has an armature resistance of
(0.06+0.001*last two digits of your roll number) Ω. The motor armature is fed from a
variable voltage source with an internal resistance of 0.04 Ω. Calculate the internal voltage
of the variable voltage source when the motor is operating in regenerative braking at 80%
of the rated motor torque and 600 rpm.
6. A 400 V, 25 HP (18.65 Kw), 450 rpm dc shunt motor is braked by plugging when running
on full load. Determine the braking resistance necessary if the maximum braking current is
 not to exceed twice the full load current. Determine also the maximum braking torque and
the braking torque when the motor is just reaching zero speed. The efficiency of the motor
is 74.6% and the armature resistance is (0.2+0.001*last two digits of your roll number) Ω.
7. A 220 V, 1500 rpm, 50 A separately excited motor with armature resistance of
(0.5+0.001*last two digits of your roll number) Ω is fed from a three phase circulating
current dual converter with ac source voltage (line) =165 V. Determine converter firing
angles for the following operating points.
(i) Motoring operation at rated torque and 1000 rpm.
(ii) Regenerative braking operation at rated torque and 1000 rpm.
(iii) Motoring operation at rated torque and -1000 rpm.
(iv) Regenerative braking operation at rated torque and -1000 rpm.
8. A 220 V, 750 rpm, 200 A separately excited motor has an armature resistance of
(0.05+0.001*last two digits of your roll number) Ω. Armature is fed from a three phase
circulating current dual converter consisting of fully controlled rectifiers A and B. Rectifier
A provides motoring operation in the forward direction and rectifier B in reverse direction.
Line voltage of ac source is 400 V. Calculate firing angles of rectifiers for the following
assuming continuous conduction.
(i) Motoring operation at rated torque and 600 rpm.
(ii) Regenerative braking operation at rated torque and 600 rpm.
(iii) Motoring operation at rated torque and -600 rpm.
(iv) Regenerative braking operation at rated torque and -600 rpm.
9. A 220 V, 24 A, 1000 rpm separately excited dc motor having an armature resistance of (2
+0.001*last two digits of your roll number) Ω is controlled by a chopper. The chopping
frequency is 500 Hz and the input voltage is 230 V. Calculate the duty ratio for a motor
torque of 1.2 times rated torque at 500 rpm.
10. A 230 V separately excited dc motor takes 50 A at a speed of 800 rpm. It has armature
resistance of (0.4+0.001*last two digits of your roll number) Ω. This motor is controlled
by a chopper with an input voltage of 230 V and frequency of 500 Hz. Assuming continuous
conduction throughout, calculate the speed of motoring operation at duty ratios of 0.3 and
0.6, and regenerative braking operation at duty ratios of 0.7 and 0.4.