Power Electronics Summative 202 Saturday

HCMC UNIVERSITY OF FINAL EXAMINATION
TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION SEMESTER 2 – ACADEMIC YEAR 2020-2021

Faculty for High Quality Training Course name: Power Electronics
Program name: ECET Course ID: POEL330262E
Exam code: POEL19101. Number of pages: 3
Duration: 120 minutes.
Open-book.
Question 1.
a) Briefly explain why the capacitor is used in the drive circuit for a bipolar junction
transistor shown in figure 1.
b) Briefly explain why the snubber circuit for SCR shown in figure 2 is used.
P D1 D3
R
vi v0
N D4 D2
Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3.

Question 2
The single-phase bridge rectifier circuit of figure 3 has an AC source of
vi = 220 2 sin100t(V) and a load Z:
a) Determine the average voltage/current in the load with Z = R = 10 (Ω).
b) Draw the load voltage/current waveforms in case of Z = R + E = 10 (Ω) + 220 (V).
c) Give comments on the differences between R load, R + L load and R+E load.
d) When the diodes are replaced by the SCRs with the firing (delay) angle of 900 (Single-
phase fully-controlled rectifier) with a resistive load Z = R + E = 10(Ω) + 220 V,
draw the load voltage/current waveforms and determine the average voltage/current
in the load.
Question 3
A three-phase half-wave controlled rectifier shown in figure 4 has an AC input line-to-
neutral voltage of 220 V (rms) at 50 Hz with a load R = 10Ω. Calculate the output voltage
and current in cases of the firing angles of 00, 200 and 600.
0 A 1
A B
0 B 2
0 C 3
R v0
Figure 4. Figure 5.
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Question 4
Given an ideal buck converter shown in figure 5 with the following parameters:
− Input voltage: Vin = 220V
− Inductance: L = 120 [mH], R = 10 [Ω], C = 47 µF.
− Switching frequency of S1: f = 40 [kHz],
− Duty cycle: D = 0.6,
a) List out some power semiconductors S1 that can be used in the circuit and why.
b) Indicate that the circuit is working in continuous conduction mode CCM or
discontinuous conduction mode DCM.
c) Determine the average output voltage/current.
d) Determine the average current through the diode.
e) Determine the peak inverse voltage across the diode
f) Determine the maximum and minimum inductor currents ILmax and ILmin.
g) Draw the voltage waveforms at A and B.
h) Determine the output voltage ripple.
Question 5
The single-phase phase-controlled AC voltage controller with a resistive load R = 10Ω
shown in figure 6 has an AC voltage source of vi = 220 2 sin100t(V) and a firing
(delay) angle of 600.
a) Derive the expression of load voltage.
b) Determine the RMS load voltage/current.
c) Draw the waveforms of load current/voltage.
SCR1
SCR1
P P
vI(q ) vI(q ) R
SCR2 u0(q) SCR2 u0(q)
L
N N
Figure 6 Figure 7
Question 6
The single-phase phase-controlled ac voltage controller with an inductive load R + L
shown in figure 7 has an AC voltage source of vi = 220 2 sin100t(V) and a firing
(delay) angle of 600 and β = 2100 (The extinction angle β is the angle at which the current
returns to zero)
a) Derive an expression for load voltage.
b) Determine the RMS load voltage.
c) Draw the waveforms of load current/voltage.

Question 7
The full-bridge inverter of figure 8 has a switching sequence that produces a square
wave voltage across a series RL load. The switching frequency is 50 Hz, Vdc = 180 V,
R = 10 Ω, and L = 50 mH.
a) List out some power semiconductors that can be used in the circuit as S1, S2, S3, S4
and why.
b) Determine an expression for load current,
c) Determine the output RMS voltage.
d) Determine the maximum and minimum output current.
e) Determine the average current in the DC source
f) Draw the waveforms of load voltage, load current and source current
Figure 8
Question 8:
The three-phase inverter shown in figure 9 has a Y-connected load of R = 10Ω,
L=20mH. The output frequency is 50Hz and the DC power supply VDC = 1500 V. This
inverter is controlled by using the six-step method with switching state of the power
switches S1 = 1, S3 = 1, S5 = 0.
a. Determine the load voltage VAN, VBN, VCN ;
b. Draw the phase output voltage VAN ;
Vin
Vo
Figure 9. Three-phase inverter

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HCMC UNIVERSITY OF FINAL EXAMINATION

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Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3.

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Figure 9. Three-phase inverter

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