Fundamental Of Electrical
Drives EE 508
Dr. Himanshu Misra
himanshumisra@iitmandi.ac.in
Course structure
Course Modules:
Introduction to drives (2 hours)
Importance of drives, Factors governing the choice of drives,
Basics of drive dynamics, Types of load, Selection of motor power rating, Applications
DC motor drives (10
hours)
Types of dc motors, starting and braking, transient analysis of separately excited motor
with armature and field control (2
hours)
Controlled rectifier fed drives, multi-quadrant operation of separately excited dc motor fed
from fully-controlled converter (3
hours)
Control of electric drives, closed loop torque, speed and position control, current and
speed sensing, Chopper controlled dc drives (3 2
Course structure
Course Modules:
Induction motor drives (20
hours)
Induction motor operation with non-sinusoidal voltage supply, starting and braking of
induction machines (4
hours)
Methods of speed control –stator voltage control, variable frequency control, field
weakening (4
hours)
Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) control of induction motors (3
hours)
Current Source Inverter (CSI) control of induction motors (3
hours)
Current regulated VSI control (2 3
Course structure
Course Modules:
Synchronous motor drives and special machines (10 hours)
Types of synchronous motors – Cylindrical-rotor and Salient-pole motors, Operation from
fixed frequency supply – starting, braking, load disturbance transients
Variable frequency control – true-synchronous mode, Self-controlled mode, Self-controlled
Synchronous motor drive using Load Commutated Thyristor Inverter
Introduction to special machines – Permanent Magnet synchronous motor, Brushless dc motor
etc.
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Evaluations
Quizzes: 30 %,
End Sem: 40 %,
Numerical Assignments: 20% ,
Modelling/Simulation/Project: 10 %
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Reference material
Textbooks
1. G. K. Dubey, Fundamentals of Electric Drives.
2. Dubey G. K., “Power Semiconductor Controlled Drives”, Prentice Hall International Edition.
1989.
3. I. Boldea, S. A. Nasar, “Electric Drives ”, Second Ed. CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 2006.
Reference books
3. Mohan N., Undeland T.M. and Robbins W.P., “Power Electronics –Converters, Applications
and Design”, 3rd Ed., Wiley India. 2008
4. Bose B.K., “Power Electronics and Variable Frequency Drives – Technology and
Applications”, IEEE Press, Standard Publisher Distributors. 2001
5. Rashid M., “Power Electronics- Circuits, Devices and Applications”, 3rd Ed., Pearson
Education.
6. Krause, P. C., Wasynczuk, O., Sudhoff, S. D., “Analysis of Electric Machinery and Drive
Systems”, New York, Wiley-Interscience.
7. S. K. Pillai, A First Course on Electrical Drives, New Age International Pvt. Ltd.
8. R. Krishnan, Electric Motor Drives: Modeling, Analysis, and Control, Prentice Hall, 2001.
9. N. K. De and P. K. Sen, Electric Drives, Prentice-Hall of India Pvt. Ltd.
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Introduction of Electric Drives
• Is motion control required in various domestic and industrial applications?
• What is difference between Motor and Electric Drives?
• To a motor, if you give the required 3-phase or single-phase or DC voltage
it will start running at a specified speed in accordance with the load
condition
• In a drive, we would be able to obtain the required speed-torque
characteristics.
• Available power sources and their nature
• How to modify the available power sources according to requirement?
• What are the quantities of the Motor to be controlled?
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Electric Drives
Objective: Controlling electric motors in the steady state and in dynamic
operations according to the characteristics of mechanical loads and behaviour
of power electronics converters.
Merits:
Compact in size,
Flexible in operation
Efficient
Applications: Refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, air conditioners, fans, computer
hard drives, automatic car windows, Electric Vehicle, Processes Industry and
devices all use electric motors to convert electrical energy into useful
mechanical energy.
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