06EE74 Industrial Drives and Applications syllabus for EE


Part A
Unit-1 An Introduction to Electrical drives & its dynamics 9 hours

Electrical drives. Advantages of electrical drives. Parts of electrical drives, choice of electrical drives, status of dc and ac drives, Dynamics of electrical drives, Fundamental torque equation, speed torque conventions and multiquadrant operation. Equivalent values of drive parameters, components of low torques, nature and classification of load torques, calculation of time and energy loss in transient operations, steady state stability, load equalization.

Unit-2 Selection of motor power rating 5 hours

Thermal model of motor for heating and cooling, Classes of motor duty, determination of motor rating.


Unit-3 & 4 D C Motor Drives 12 hours

(a) Starting braking, transient analysis, single phase fully controlled rectifier, control of dc separately excited motor, Single-phase half controlled rectifier control of dc separately excited motor. (b) Three phase fully controlled rectifier control of dc separately excited motor, three phase half controlled controlled rectifier control of dc separately excited motor, multiquadrant operation of dc separately excited motor fed form fully controlled rectifier. Rectifier control of dc series motor, chopper controlled dc drives, chopper chopper control of separately excited dc motor. Chopper control of series motor.

Part B
Unit-5 & 6 Induction motor Drives 12 hours

(a) Operation with unbalanced source voltage and single phasing, operation with unbalanced rotor impedances, analysis of induction motor fed from non-sinusoidal voltage supply, starting braking, transient analysis. (b) Stator voltage control variable voltage frequency control from voltage sources , voltage source inverter control, closed loop control, current source inverter control, current regulated voltage source inverter control, rotor resistance control, slip power recovery, speed control of single phase induction motors.

Unit-7 Synchronous motor Drives 10 hours

Operation form faced frequency supply, synchronous motor variable speed drives, variable frequency control of multiple synchronous motors. Self-controlled synchronous motor drive employing load commutated thruster inverter.

Unit-8 Industrial Drives 4 hours

Rolling mill drives, cement mill drives, paper mill dries and textile mill drives.

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 24, 2023