Chapter 8

DC Motors and Generators

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Electric Machinery
DC Motors

• built by Elihu Thompson in 1886

• Starting of AC power system by the 1890s

Electric Machinery
DC Motors speed regulations

Electric Machinery
Types of DC Motors

Electric Machinery
The Equivalent Circuit of a DC Motor

Electric Machinery
The Equivalent Circuit of a DC Motor

Electric Machinery
The Magnetization Curve of a DC
Machine

Electric Machinery
The Magnetization Curve of a DC
Machine

Electric Machinery
The Equivalent Circuit of Separately-
Excited DC Motors

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The Equivalent Circuit of Shunt DC
Motors

Electric Machinery
The Terminal Characteristics of Shunt
DC Motors

How does a shunt DC motor respond to a load?

Electric Machinery
The Terminal Characteristics of Shunt
DC Motors

Electric Machinery
The Terminal Characteristics of Shunt
DC Motors

EXAMPLE 8.1 (Practice Problem)

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Nonlinear Analysis of Shunt DC Motors

Electric Machinery
Nonlinear Analysis of Shunt DC Motors

Electric Machinery
Nonlinear Analysis of Shunt DC Motors

EXAMPLE 8.2 (Practice Problem)

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Speed Control of Shunt DC Motors

The two common ways in which the speed of a shunt DC machine can be
controlled by:

Electric Machinery
Speed Control of Shunt DC Motors:
Changing the Field Resistance

Then

And

And

Electric Machinery
Speed Control: Summary of
Changing the Field Resistance

Electric Machinery
Speed Control: Warning at
Changing the Field Resistance

Electric Machinery
Speed Control: Warning at
Changing the Field Resistance

Electric Machinery
 Speed Control of Shunt DC Motors:
Changing the Armature Voltage

Then

Thus

And

So
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Speed Control: Summary of
Changing the Armature Voltage

Electric Machinery
Speed Control of Shunt DC Motors:
Series Resistance With Armature

Electric Machinery
Summary of Speed Control of
Shunt DC Motor

Electric Machinery
The Effect of an Open Field Circuit

Electric Machinery
The Equivalent Circuit of Series DC
Motors

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Induced Torque in a Series DC Motors

Electric Machinery
The Terminal Characteristics of Series
DC Motors
It is known that

And Armature current is:

Also,

Thus,
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The Terminal Characteristics of Series
DC Motors

Electric Machinery
Speed Control of Series DC Motors

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