EE 2352-SOLID STATE DRIVES Two Marks Questions

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What are all the components of load torque? How are loads classified? What is meant by acceleration mode of an electric drive? Mention the necessary condition to obtain the three modes of operation of an electric drive. 5. Write down the fundamental torque equation of motor-load system. 6. What are all the conditions to be satisfied for the regenerative braking operation to take place? 7. When is discontinuous conduction expected with the operation of converter fed dc drives? 8. Explain whether discontinuous conduction will occur in the operation of chopper fed dc drives? 9. Write the expression for the average output voltage of a full converter fed dc drive. 10. What are advantages in operating choppers at high frequency? 11. What are the types of electric braking? Is braking applicable for any type of motor? 12. What are the types of control strategies in a dc chopper? 13. State the advantages of DC chopper drives. 14. Give the condition to be satisfied to operate a motor in regenerative braking mode. 15. Write down the speed torque equation of dc separately excited motor fed drive. 16. State the advantages of PI controller used in closed loop control of induction motor drives. 17. Compare voltage source and current source inverter fed drives. 18. Name the methods of speed control applicable on the rotor side of a three phase induction motor. 19. State the advantages of closed loop systems. 20. What are the different methods employed to achieve variable frequency control in synchronous motors? 21. Draw the speed-torque characteristics of Induction motor. 22. What do you understand by V/F control? 23. State the applications of induction motor drives controlled by ac voltage controllers. 24. Write down the consequences of increasing the frequency of induction motor without a change in the terminal voltage. 25. Mention any two advantages of self control of synchronous motor. 26. Write down the torque equation of synchronous motor. 27. When can a synchronous motor be load commutated? 28. What is self control of synchronous motor drive? 29. State the advantages of PMSM.

30. List out the factors concerned with the selection of converters. 31. What are the advantages of closed loop speed control? 32. Give the transfer function relating speed and armature current of a dc motor. 33. What are the functions of feed back loops in an electric drive? 34. Mention the types of current controllers for drive system. 35. Write the transfer function of converter. 36. What is the function of inner current control loop closed loop speed control system?

BIG QUESTIONS (16 MARKS) 1. Derive the mathematical condition for steady state stability of equilibrium point. Based on the mathematical condition, examine the stability of equilibrium points A, B, C & D given in the figures. X-axis : Torque Y axis : Speed

A Tl1 C Tl3 B Tl2 D Tl4

2. Explain in detail the multi quadrant dynamics in the speed-torque plane. 3. A motor drives two loads. One has rotational motion. It is coupled to the motor through a reduction gear with a = 0.1 and efficiency of 90%. The load has a moment of inertia of 10 kg-m2 and a torque of 10 N-m. The other load has translational motion and consists of 1000 kg weight to be lifted up at a uniform speed of 1.5 m/sec. Coupling between this load and the motor has an efficiency of 85%. Motor has inertia of 0.2 kg-m2 and runs at a constant speed of 1420 r.p.m. Determine the equivalent inertia referred to the motor shaft and power delivered by motor. 4. Discuss the different modes of operation of an electrical drive.

5. Explain the multiquadrant operation of an electric motor driving a hoist load. 6. A motor having a suitable control circuit develops a torque given by the relation Tm= p + q where p and q are positive constants. The motor is used to drive a load whose torque is expressed as TL = r2 + s where r and s are positive constants. The total inertia of the rotating masses is J. i) Determine the relation among p, q, r and s in order that the motor can start together with the load and have an equilibrium operating speed. ii) Calculate the equilibrium operating speed. 7. Derive the expressions to find the equivalent load torque and equivalent inertia of loads in Translational and Rotational motion. 8. Describe in detail about the braking of DC and AC drives. 9. Explain in detail the operation and steady state analysis of single phase fully controlled converter fed dc drive with neat waveforms in continuous and discontinuous modes. 10. Explain the operation of four quadrant chopper control in dc motor drives. 11. A 250V separately excited dc motor has an armature resistance of 2.5 when driving a load at 600 r.p.m. with constant torque, the armature takes 20 A. This motor is controlled by a chopper circuit with a frequency of 400 Hz and an input voltage of 250 V. (i) What should be the value of the duty ratio if one desires to reduce the speed from 600 to 540 r.p.m. with the load torque maintained constant. (ii) Find out the value of duty ratio for which the per unit ripple current will be maximum. 12. A separately excited dc motor operating from a single phase half controlled bridge at a speed of 1400 rpm has an input voltage of 330 sin 314t and a back emf of 80 V. The SCR are fired symmetrically at = 30 in every half cycle. The armature has a resistance of 4 ohms. Calculate the average armature current and the motor torque. 13. Describe how DC Shunt motor can be made to run as a motor and operate in the braking mode using chopper. 14. A DC Shunt motor fed from 400 V dc source through a chopper has the following parameters. Ra = 0.02 ohms Rf = 0.04 ohms k = 510-3 Nm/Amp2. The average armature current of 300 Amps is ripple free. For a chopper duty cycle of 50% determine (i) Input power from the source (ii) Motor speed and (iii) Motor Torque. 15. A 220 V, 1500 rpm, 50 A separately excited motor with armature resistance of 0.5 is fed from a 3-phase fully controlled rectifier. Available ac source has a line voltage of 440 V,50Hz. A star delta connected transformer is used to feed the armature so that the motor terminal voltage equals rated voltage when converter firing angle is zero. (i) Calculate transformer turns ratio. (ii) Determine the value of firing angle when (a) motor is running at 1200rpm and rated torque (b) when motor is running at 800rpm and twice the rated torque. Assume continuous conduction. 16. A 200 V, 875 rpm, 150 A separately excited dc motor has an armature resistance of 0.06 . It is fed from a single phase fully controlled rectifier with an ac source of 220 V, 50 Hz. Assuming continuous conduction, calculate the firing angle for rated motor torque and 750 rpm.

17. A 220 V, 960 rpm and 200 A separately excited dc motor has an armature resistance of 0.02 . The motor is fed from a chopper which provides both motoring and braking operations. The source has a voltage of 230 V . Assuming continuous conduction, (i) Calculate duty ratio of chopper for motoring operation at rated torque and 350 rpm (ii) Calculate duty ratio of chopper for braking operation at rated torque and 350 rpm. 18. Explain in detail with suitable diagrams and waveforms the (v/f) control applied to induction motor drives. 19. Explain with neat diagram and equations the static Scherbius system of slip power recovery scheme. 20. A 3 Phase , Star Connected, 60 Hz, 4 pole induction motor has the following parameters for its equivalent circuit. Ra = Rr = 0.024 and Xs = Xr = 0.12 . The motor is controlled by the variable frequency control with a constant (v/f) ratio. For an operating frequency of 12 Hz, Calculate (i) the breakdown torque as a ratio of its value at the rated frequency for both motoring and braking. (ii) the starting torque and rotor current in terms of their values at the rated frequency. 21. Discuss how the speed of a three phase induction motor can be controlled by varying the frequency of the applied voltage. Draw the speed torque characteristics of the motor with constant supply voltage and variable frequency.