VINAYAKA MISSIONS UNIVERSITY V.M.K.V.

ENGINEEING COLLEGE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING SOLID STATE DRIVES BE (PT) QUESTION BANK UNIT-1 PART-A:

1. What is meant by electrical drive? 2. What are the different types of drives? 3. What are the different types of electrical drives? 4. What is a group drive? 5. Write any two advantages of electrical drives? 6. State essential parts of electrical drives. 7. What are the applications of electrical drives? 8. Mention the factors used for the selection of electrical drives. 9. What are the three modes of operation of electrical drive? 10 .Compare AC and DC drives. 11. What is meant by four quadrant operation? 12. Write down the fundamental torque equation. 13. What is dynamic torque? 14. What are the classifications of load torque? 15. What are the components of load torques? 16. What is meant by mechanical characteristics? 17. Define active load torques. 18. Define passive load torques. 19. What is AC and DC drive? 20. What is friction torque and windage torque?

21. Mention the types of braking 22. What are the advantage and disadvantages of D.C. drives? 23. Give some applications of D.C. drives. 24. Define four quadrant operations 25. What is critical speed?

PART-B: 1. Explain the classification of electric drive. 2. Explain briefly about general electric drive system. 3. Describe the mechanical characteristics of different types of loads. 4. Derive the fundamental torque equation of motor load system. Write about the component of load torques. 5. a) Write about AC and DC drives. b) Compare AC and DC drives. 6. Explain the four quadrant operation of drives. 7. Draw the general electric drive system and explain its components. 8. Describe the multi quadrant operation of electrical drives. 9. Explain the classification and components of load torque. 10. Write short note on a) Selection of electrical drives. b) Advantages of electrical drives.

UNIT-2 PART-A 1. Mention the methods to control the speed of a dc shunt motor? 2. Why thyristors are not preferred now a day for chopper fed DC drives? 3. What is discontinuous conduction mode? 4. What causes poor input power factor in phase controlled dc drives? 5. What do you mean by constant torque drive?

6. What do you mean by constant power drive? 7. What are the four quadrants of dc drives? 8. What is discontinuous conduction mode? 9. Draw the regenerative braking characteristic of a separately excited motor. 10. What are the advantages of three phase drive over single phase drive? 11. What is a static ward- Leonard drive? 12. What are the methods of armature voltage control dc motor? 13. What are the drawbacks of armature resistance control? 14. Write the expression for average output voltage of full convertor fed dc drives. 15. State the advantages of dc chopper drives. 16. What are the disadvantages of conventional ward -Leonard scheme? 17. Why self commutated chopper are preferred over thyristor for chopper circuit? 18. What is a line commutated inverter? 19. What are the advantages of conventional ward Leonard scheme? 20. Write the drawbacks of rectifier fed dc drives.
21. What is the use of flywheel? Where it is used? 22. Mention different types of braking in a dc motor? 23. Define positive and negative motor torque. 24. What are the advantages of closed loop of dc drives? 25. What are the types of control strategies in dc chopper?

PART-B 1. With the output wave form explain the working of single phase semi converter fed dc drives and obtain the equation of motor speed and torque. 2. Describe the operation of single phase fully convertor fed dc drives and obtain the expression for motor speed. 3. Obtain the expression of motor speed and torque of a single phase full convertor fed dc motor operating in discontinuous current mode. 4. How the three phase fully controlled rectifier control thee speed of dc separately excited motor and deduce the equation of motor speed and torque.

5. Explain the two quadrant chopper drives. 6. Explain the four quadrant operation of dc motor. 7. The speed of a 10hp, 220V, 1200rpm, separately excited dc motor is controlled by a single- phase full converter. The rated armature current is 40A . The armature resistance is 0.25. The ac supply voltage is 230V. The motor constant Ka=0.18 V/rpm. Assume that the motor current is constant and ripple free. For a firing angle of 300 and motor current ,determine the following: a) Speed of the motor. b) Motor torque. c) Power supply of to the motor. 8. The speed of a 50 kW ,500V ,120 A, 1500rpm separately excited dc motor is controlled by a three phase full convertor fed from 400 V ,50Hz supply .Motor armature resistance is 0.1.Find the range of firing angle required to obtain speed between 1000 rpm and (-1000) rpm at rated torque. 9. A dc series motor is feed from 600V dc source through a chopper.The dc motor has the following parameters Ra=0.04 Rs=0.06 K=4 103 Nm/amp2

The average armature current of 300A is ripple free .For a chopper duty cycle of 60% .Determine a) Input power from the source. b) Motor speed. c) Motor torque.

10. Write about the close loop control of electric drive.

UNIT-3 PART-A

1. What are the different methods of speed control of induction motors? 2. What is meant by stator voltage control? 3. What are the applications of stator voltage controlled? 4. What are the applications of ac drives? 5. What are the advantages of stator voltage control method?

6. State the disadvantages of stator voltage control method. 7. What are the three region in the speed torque characteristics of the induction motor? 8. What are the advantages of squirrel cage induction motor? 9. What is meant by field weakening mode operation in the stator frequency control? 10. What is meant by v/f control? 11. What are the advantages of v/f control? 12. What is meant by stator current control? 13. What is meant by soft start? 14. What are the advantages of ac drives? 15. What is meant by frequency control of induction motor? 16. Frequency control is not normally used. Why? 17. What are the three regions in the speed-torque characteristic of the induction motor?

18. Write the advantages of slip ring induction motor. 19. Write the advantages of CSI fed drive. 20. Why close loop control systems are performed over open loop control system?
21. What are the different methods of speed control of IM? 22. Define slip 23. What is known as half-controlled rectifier and fully controlled rectifier 24. What is called continuous and discontinuous conduction? 25. Give the applications of induction motors drives.

PART-B 1. Write the working of AC voltage controller for 3 phase induction motor. Mention its advantage and disadvantage. 2. Describe the voltage/frequency control method of three phase induction motor. 3. With neat diagram explain the close loop speed control of VSI drives. 4. Explain the close loop speed control of CSI drives with neat sketch. 5. Why the close loop controls of induction motor drives are performed? 6. Explain the voltage source inverter fed AC drives system.

7. Explain the operation of current source inverter fed AC drives. 8. How the control of an induction motor is done by stator voltage control method.
9. Explain the closed loop scheme of i) speed control of poly phase induction motor by rotor resistance control. ii) Compare this scheme of control with the slip power recovery scheme.

10. Explain the different methods of braking applied to the induction motor

UNIT -4 PART-A 1. What is meant by rotor resistance control? 2. What is meant by slip power? 3. Write the advantages of rotor resistance control? 4. State the disadvantages of rotor resistance control. 5. Why the power factor of the slip power recovery scheme of speed control of induction motor is low? 6. What is meant by slip power recovery system? 7. What is meant by super -synchronous speed operation? 8. What is the function of conventional Kramer system? 9. What is meant by sub -synchronous speed operation?

10. Mention few general features of an induction motor on a CSI. 11. Name the method of speed control applicable on the stator side of a three phase induction motor. 12. What is the function of static Kramer system? 13. Constant torque loads are not suitable for AC voltage controller fed induction motor drives. Why? 14. Induction motor speed control with constant supply voltage and reduced supply frequency is rarely used in practice-justify? 15. What are the advantages of static Kramer system? 16. What are the modes of operation of cycloconverter Scherbius drive? 17. Compare slip power recovery scheme with rotor resistance control. 18. What are the applications of slip power recovery scheme of induction motor? 19. Compare the static Kramer and Scherbius system. 20. Give drawbacks of an induction motor drive fed from a stepped wave inverter.
21. How is the resistance in the output terminals of a chopper varied?

22. What is the function of inductance L and resistance R in the chopper resistance circuit? 23. Give the features of static scherbius drive. 24. What is the use and functions of step down transformer is static Kramer drive? 25. How is the static Scherbius drive operated in super synchronous motoring mode?

PART-B 1. How the speed of slip ring induction motor is control by using rotor resistance. 2. Describe briefly about slip power recovery scheme. 3. Describe the conventional Kramer system for speed control of slip ring induction motor. 4. Explain the operation of DC link static scherbius drive in sub- synchronous and super -synchronous mode 5. Briefly explain the close loop control for static Kramer system. Compare Kramer and scherbius system. 6. A 440V,50 HZ , 6 pole ,star connected slip ring induction motor has the following parameters referred to stator :Rs =0.5, Rr=0.4, Xs=Xr=1.2 , Xm=50 Stator to rotor turn ratio =3.5 . Motor is controlled by static rotor resistance control .External resistance is chosen such that the breakdown torque is produced at standstill for a duty cycle of zero . Calculate the value of external resistance. How duty cycle should be varied with speed so that the motor accelerate at maximum torque. 7. A 400V ,4 pole ,50 Hz ,three phase ,star connected induction motor has r1=0 , x1=x2=1, r2=0.4, xm=500. The induction motor is fed from (1) a constant voltage source of 231V per phase (2)a constant current source of 28A .For both the case calculate the slip at which maximum torque occurs and the starting and maximum torque. 8. Describe the cycloconverter static Scherbius drive mechanism. 9. Explain any one type of slip power recovery system.
10. . Explain with schematic diagram of sub-synchronous speed control of slip-ring Induction Motor under slip power recovery scheme

UNIT-5 PART-A 1. What are the modes of speed control of a synchronous motor? 2. What are the different ways of receiving variable voltage and variable frequency for a synchronous motor? 3. What are the major applications off cycloconverter fed synchronous motor? 4. What are the advantages of constant margin angle control of synchronous motor drive fed by an inverter? 5. What is brushless DC motor? 6. Why a synchronous motor without damper winding is used ,in the drive system employing a cycloconverter? 7. What are the characteristics of true synchronous mode operated synchronous motor? 8. What is the effect of different type of VSI on the line power factor and thee synchronous machine power factor? 9. What is self control mode of synchronous motor? 10. What are the different classifications of synchronous motor? 11. What is a commutatorless DC motor?

12. What are the disadvantages of load commutation in the CSI fed synchronous motor drive? 13. What is constant margin angle control of synchronorous motor drive? 14. What are the advantages and disadvantages of PMSM? 15. When can the synchronous motor be load commutated? 16. What are the classifications of self controlled mode operated synchronous motor? 17. What are the disadvantages of the VSI fed synchronous motor?

18. What are the two controllers employed in thee close loop control of synchronous motor drives? 19. Why the load commutated inverter fed synchronous motor drive found suitable for high speed and high power application? 20. Define torque angle.
21. Give the use of synchronous motors 22. What is Commutator Less Motor ( CLM)? 23. Give the uses of a hysteresis synchronous motor 24. Mention the two modes employed in variable frequency control 25. Define load commutation

PART-B 1. Describe the variable frequency speed control mechanism of synchronous motor. 2. Explain the self controlled mode operation of synchronous motor drive employing load commutated thyristor inverter. 3. Discuss the constant margin angle control of synchronous machine? 4. Describe briefly about voltage source inverter fed synchronous motor drives.

5. Describe briefly about current source inverter fed synchronous motor drives. 6. With a block diagram explain the power factor control mechanism of synchronous motor. 7. Explain the close loop speed control of synchronous motor using CSI with neat sketch.

8. Describe the self control mode operation of synchronous motor. 9. Explain the separate control mode operation of synchronous motor. 10. Discuss about the brushless dc motor drive system.