Sem6 Syllabus
Sem6 Syllabus
Sem6 Syllabus
drives, choice of electrical drives, status of dc and ac drives, dynamics of electrical drives,
fundamental torque equation, components of load torque, nature and classification of load
torques, speed-torque conventions and multi-quadrant operation, equivalent values of drive
parameters.
Unit 2 DC Drives Basic Concepts: Speed torque characteristics, starting, braking and speed control
techniques of shunt/separately excited dc motor (theory only). Rectifier controlled dc drives:
Types of rectifiers- review, fully controlled rectifier fed dc drives, half controlled rectifier fed
dc drives, multi-quadrant operation of rectifier-controlled dc drives. Chopper controlled dc
drives: Types of choppers – review, chopper- controlled dc drives – motoring and braking
operation, multi-quadrant operation of chopper-controlled dc drives.
Unit 3 AC Drives Basic Concepts: Speed-Torque characteristics of induction motors. Concept of
induction motor starting. Types of starters - star delta, auto transformer, reactor, part
winding, rotor resistance. Concept of induction motor braking. Methods of braking -
regenerative, plugging, dynamic braking (theory only) Speed control techniques: Rotor
resistance control, Stator voltage control, stator frequency control, V/f control. Static
converter control of induction motors: ac voltage regulator control, voltage source inverter
control, cyclo-converter control.
Unit 4 Introduction to Special Machine Drives & Synchronous motors Drive: Construction, operation
from fixed frequency supply –starting, speed-torque characteristics, pulling in, braking of
motor various special motors such as Synchronous Motor, BLDC, Switch Reluctance Motor,
PMSM. Variable speed Drives. Self-controlled synchronous motor drive employing load
commutated inverter. brushless dc motor controllers – rotor position measurement,
commutation logic, speed controller.
Unit-5 Stepper Motor Drives: Principle of operation of stepper motor, single stack variable reluctance
motors, speed torque characteristics, control of stepper motors, unipolar and bipolar drive
circuits Selection of motor power rating: Thermal model of motor for heating and cooling,
classes of motor duty, determination of motor rating. Selection of parts, control technique for
a given drive specification.
BOOKS/REFERENCE:
1. G.K Dubey, Fundamentals of Electrical Drives, Narosa publishing house Chennai, 2 Edition, 5th
reprint.
2. Mohamed A. El-Sharkawi, Fundamentals of Electric Drives, Thomson Learning, 2002
3. Dave Polka , Motors and Drives : A Practical Technology Guide, The Instrumentation, Systems
and Automation Society, 2000.
4. N.K De and P.K. Sen, Electrical Drives, PHI, 2007.
5. M.H.Rashid, ‘Power Electronics: Circuits, Devices and Applications’, Pearson Education, 3 rd
Edition.
Unit 3 Faults and Short Circuit Analysis: Symmetrical three-phase fault analysis, use of Z-bus
in computation of short circuit currents, short circuit capacity at a bus, selection of
circuit breaker, use of current limiting reactors.
Significance of positive, negative and zero sequence components, sequence impedances
and sequence networks equations, unsymmetrical short circuit analysis - single line to
ground fault, line to line fault, double line to ground fault on power systems, faults with
fault impedance, open circuit faults.
Unit 4 Power System Stability: Swing equation, power angle equation, synchronizing power
coefficient, basic concepts of steady state, dynamic and transient stability, equal area
criterion, solution of the swing equation, multi-machine transient stability studies with
classical machine representation, methods for improving stability.
Unit 5 Voltage Stability: Introduction, comparison of angle and voltage stability, reactive power flow and
voltage collapse, mathematical formulation of voltage stability problem, voltage stability analysis,
prevention of voltage collapse, methods to improve stability, trends and challenges.
Suggested Readings:
1. G. W. Stagg, and A. H. El-Abiad, “Computer Methods In Power System Analysis”, McGraw Hill
Kogakusha, 1968.
2. Abhijit Chakraborty, and Sunita Halder, “Power System Analysis, Operation and Control”, PHI, New
Delhi, 2011.
3. M. A. Pai, “Computer Techniques in Power System Analysis”, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 2006.
4. Carson W.Taylor, “Power System Voltage Stability”, McGraw-Hill, 1994.
Unit 1 Protective Relays, CTs and PTs: Classification - electromechanical, static, and numerical
relays; construction, operating characteristic and their applications with limitations;
over and under current, directional, differential, distance and other types of relay;
constructions and characteristic of CTs and PTs, capacitance voltage transformer.
Unit 3 Protection of Transformers: Protection against internal faults such as short circuit and
turn-to-turn fault using differential and overcurrent relays, protection for other abnormal
conditions.
Unit 4 Protection of Transmission lines: Over current protection, grading of over current relays,
distance protection, types of distance relays and their characteristics, carrier current
protection; protection against surges, surge diverters, surge absorbers, use of ground
wires on transmission lines, necessity of grounding system neutral and substation
equipment, methods of grounding.
Unit 5 Switchgear: Types and applications of fuse and MCB; physics of arcing phenomenon and
arc interruption, DC and AC circuit breaking, re-striking voltage and recovery voltage,
rate of rise of recovery voltage, resistance switching, current chopping, interruption of
capacitive current; circuit breakers and types – air-blast, air-break, oil, SF6 and vacuum
circuit breaker, comparison of different circuit breakers, ratings and selection of circuit
breakers.
Suggested Readings:
1. J. J. Grainger, and W.D. Stevenson, “Power System Analysis”, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2003.
2. Paul M. Anderson “Power System Protection” IEEE Press.
3. C L Wadhva, “Electrical Power System” Wiley Eastern Ltd., 3rd edition, 2000.
4. D.P. Kothari, and I.J. Nagrath “Modern Power System Analysis“, Tata McGraw-Hill, 4th Edition.
Unit 4 Fault and Protection Schemes in HVDC Systems: Nature and types of faults, faults on AC
side of the converter stations, converter faults, fault on DC side of the systems, HVDC
circuit breaking - protection against over currents and over voltages, protection of filter
units.
Unit 5 Multiterminal HVDC Systems: Types of multiterminal (MTDC) systems, parallel operation
aspect of MTDC, control of power in MTDC; multilevel DC systems, power upgrading and
conversion of AC lines into DC lines, parallel AC/DC systems.
Suggested Readings:
1. K. R. Padiyar, “HVDC power Transmission System”, New Age Publication, 1990.
2. Jos Arrillaga “High voltage direct current transmission”, IET Digital Library, 2nd Edition, 1998.
3. Kamakshaiah, Kamaraju,” HVDC Transmission”, McGraw-Hill Publication, 2011.
4. Chan-Ki Kim, Vijay K. Sood, Gil-Soo Jang, Seong-Joo Lim, and Seok-Jin Lee, "HVDC
Transmission: Power Conversion Applications in Power Systems", Wiley-IEEE Press, April 2009.
Course No. Title of the Course Credit Course Structure Pre- Requisite
EEEEE20 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF 4 3L-1T-0P NIL
ENERGY SYSTEMS