PRIST UNIVERSITY

(Estd. u/s 3 of UGC Act, 1956)

Vallam, Thanjavur -613403
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M.Tech. – POWER ELECTRONICS AND DRIVES &

POWER SYSTEM

QUESTION BANK

Course Details

Course Code & Title : 17253H14/17272E16A- Analysis of

inverters

Regulations : 2017 Regulation

(For Students admitted from June 2008- June 2010)

Nature of the Course : Hard core

Semester : I

H.O.D. Staff-In-Charge
 17253H14-ANALYSIS OF INVERTERS 3 1 0 4

UNIT- I- SINGLE PHASE INVERTERS 9

Introduction to self commutated switches: MOSFET and IGBT - Principle of operation
of half and full bridge inverters – Performance parameters – Voltage control of single
phase inverters using various PWM techniques – various harmonic elimination
techniques – forced commutated Thyristor inverters.

UNIT-II- THREE PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS 9

180 degree and 120 degree conduction mode inverters with star and delta connected
loads – voltage control of three phase inverters: single, multi pulse, sinusoidal, space
vector modulation techniques.

UNIT-III- CURRENT SOURCE INVERTERS 9

Operation of six-step thyristor inverter – inverter operation modes – load – commutated
inverters – Auto sequential current source inverter (ASCI) – current pulsations –
comparison of current source inverter and voltage source inverters

UNIT-IV- MULTILEVEL INVERTERS 9

Multilevel concept – diode clamped – flying capacitor – cascade type multilevel inverters
- Comparison of multilevel inverters - application of multilevel inverters

UNIT-V- RESONANT INVERTERS 9

Series and parallel resonant inverters - voltage control of resonant inverters – Class E
resonant inverter – resonant DC – link inverters.

L=45 T=15 P=0 C=4

TEXT BOOKS
1. Rashid M.H., “Power Electronics Circuits, Devices and Applications ", Prentice Hall
India, Third Edition, New Delhi, 2004.
2. Jai P.Agrawal, “Power Electronics Systems”, Pearson Education, Second Edition,
2002.
3. Bimal K.Bose “Modern Power Electronics and AC Drives”, Pearson Education,
Second Edition, 2003.
4. Ned Mohan,Undeland and Robbin, “Power Electronics: converters, Application
and design” John Wiley and sons.Inc,Newyork,1995.
5. Philip T. krein, “Elements of Power Electronics” Oxford University Press -1998.

REFERENCES
1. P.C. Sen, “Modern Power Electronics”, Wheeler Publishing Co, First Edition, New
Delhi, 1998.

2. P.S.Bimbra, “Power Electronics”, Khanna Publishers, Eleventh Edition, 2003.

H.O.D. Staff-In-Charge
 UNIT I
SINGLE PHASE INVERTERS
(2-MARKS)

1. What is an inverter?
2. What do you mean by commutation and how do you commutate a thyristor?
3. What is meant by current commutation?
4. How are inverters classified?
5. What is meant by forced commutation?
6. What are the factors to be considered in the selection of switching devices for
inverters?
7. What are the gating requirements of thyristor in an inverter?
8. State the purpose of feedback diode in an inverter?
9. What is pulse width modulation? List the various PWM techniques.
10. What is the necessity of voltage control of Inverters?
12. Write the values of commutating circuit parameters L and C for minimum
dropped energy in a McMurray Bedford Inverter.
13. What is the advantage of eliminating low frequency harmonics from the output
voltage of an inverter?

PART-B
(16-MARKS)

1. a) (i) Explain the principle and working of single phase half bridge inverter.
Also describe the steady state analysis of single phase inverter.

(ii) Briefly explain load commutation technique.

2. Describe with neat diagram the different types of commutation techniques used
for inverters.
3. Explain the principle and working of single phase full bridge inverter. Also
describe the steady state analysis of single phase inverter.
4. State the need for reductions of harmonics in inverters. Outline the various
methods for reductions of harmonics or the improvement in wave shape.

5. Describe the McMurray inverter. What type of commutation does it apply? What
are the expressions for commutating elements.
6. Discuss the different modes of operation and Full bridge McMurray Bedford
inverter.
7. Discuss in detail the various methods of voltage control of single phase inverters
usig PWM technics.

8. A single phase full bridge inverter has resistive load of R=3Ω and dc input
voltage Edc =50V. Compute (1) RMS value of output voltage at fundamental
frequency. (2) Output Power (3) Average power currents of each thyristor.
 UNIT II
THREE PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTERS
(2-MARKS)

1. Draw the diagram for a Single phase VSI

2. What are the different methods of controlling output voltage of an inverter?
3. What are the different methods for voltage control within the inverter?
4. What is the difference between 180° mode and 120° conduction mode of VSI?
5. What is the necessity of voltage control of Inverters?
6. 6. What is meant by self commutated inverter?
7. What is meant by space vector modulation.
8. What is meant by load commutation technique.

PART -B
(16-MARKS)

1. Explain the working of three phase inverter with 120° conduction mode. Also
derive an expression for line and phase voltage.
2. Discuss in detail the various methods of voltage control of three phase inverters.

3. Explain space vector modulation techniques.

4. Explain the working of three phase inverter with 180° conduction mode. Also
derive an expression for line and phase voltage.
5. voltage control single, multi pulse, sinusoidal of three phase inverters

UNIT –III
CURRENT SOURCE INVERTER
(2-MARKS)

1. What is a current source inverter?

2. Mention the advantages of CSI
3. Write the salient features of auxiliary commutated inverters.
4. Mention the applications of CSI.
5. How is regenerative braking of an ac motor achieved when it is fed by a three
phase CSI?
6. How current pulsation in a CSI is minimized?
7. Differentiate single phase and three phase CSI.
8. Differentiate between VSI and CSI.

PART- B
 (16-MARKS)

1. Draw the power circuit diagram of single phase CSI. Explain its operation. Draw
the Load waveform. Also derive the expression for load current using fourier
series.
2. Draw neatly the power circuit diagram of single phase auto sequentially
commutated CSI. Discuss its operation in detail with relevant waveforms.
3. Draw a neat sketch and explain the working of three phase CSI. Also derive the
expression for line and phase voltages.
4. Explain the sinusoidal PWM technique. Perform the harmonic analysis of the
output of this technique.
5. (i) Explain the operation of three phase PWM based CSI.
(ii) List the merits of load commutated inverter over a conventional six step
inverter.

UNIT-IV
MULTI-LEVEL INVERTER
(2-MARKS)

1. Which Multilevel inverter configuration is preferred for more than 5 levels?

Why?
2. Mention some of the applications of multilevel inverter?
3. What is a diode clamped multilevel inverter?
4. What are features of multilevel inverters?
5. What is a multilevel inverter?
6. What are features of diode clamped multilevel inverter.
7. What are features of flying capacitor multilevel inverter?
8. Mention the applications of diode clamped multilevel inverter
9. Mention the applications of flying capacitor multilevel inverter.
10. Give any two constructional comparisons between flying capacitor diode clamped
MLI.
PART – B
(16-MARKS)

11. Compare the performance of diode clamped, flying capacitor and cascade type
multilevel inverters.
12. Give short note of the following
(i) Multilevel inverter
(ii) flying capacitor MLI
(iii) Any one application of MLI in detail
13. Explain the principle and working of flying capacitor based multilevel inverters.
14. Explain the operation of a diode clamped multilevel inverter. Also discuss its
advantages and disadvantages.
15. With neat diagram describe the operation of a cascaded multilevel inverter. Also
discuss its main features.
 UNIT –V
RESONANT INVERTER
(2-MARKS)

1. What is the principle of resonant inverters?

2. What is a Series resonant inverter?
3. What is the dead zone of a resonant inverter?
4. What are the necessary conditions for series resonant oscillations?
5. What are the limitations of Class E resonant inverter?
6. What are the limitations of Zero Current Switching(ZCS) converter?
8. Differentiate between series and parallel resonant inverter.
9. List the advantages of resonant inverters.

PART –B
(16-MARKS)

1. Draw and explain the power circuit of series resonant inverter. Draw necessary
waveforms and equivalent circuits. Derive the expression for quality factor and
tank circuit components.
2. A parallel resonant inverter delivers a load power of PL=1kw at a peak sinusoidal
load voltage of Vp=170V and at resonance. The load resistance is R=10Ω. The
resonant frequency is f0=20kHz. Determine:
a. the dc input current
b. quality factor if it is required to reduce the load power to 250w. by
frequency control so that the switching frequency to resonant frequency
ratio is 1.25
c. inductance, L
d. Capacitor, C
3. Describe ZVS and ZCS resonant converter with necessary circuit diagram and
waveform.
4. (i) Explain the effects of series loading in a series resonant inverter.
(ii) Explain, how the output voltage is controlled in the resonant inverters.
5. Explain class E resonant inverter.

H.O.D. Staff-In-Charge