CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ELETRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

ELEC 433/6461 Power Electronics/Power Electronics I
Assignment #1: Review of basic concepts and definitions
Due date: September 28 2015 in the mailbox of Dr. Lopes (EV5.175).

1) A 60 Hz three-phase induction motor draws 25kVA at 0.8 lagging power factor from a 220-VLL
source. It is desired to improve the power factor to 0.92 by connecting a capacitor bank in parallel
with the motor. A) Specify the required kVA (kVAr) rating of the capacitor bank. B) If the
capacitor bank is -connected, find the value of the capacitors. C) Determine the line current
before and after the addition of the capacitor bank. D) For a per-phase equivalent circuit, show
the phasor diagram of the load current, capacitor current, source current and source voltage
(reference phasor).
2) A single-phase full-bridge diode rectifier was simulated with PSpice and the following results
were obtained: 1) Waveforms of the ac side current, ac side voltage and dc side voltage; 2)
Harmonic spectrum of the ac side current. Assuming that 1 = 10, compute: a) The total rms
value of the ac side current; b) The THD of the ac side current; c) The crest factor of the ac side
current; d) The active, reactive and apparent power absorbed by the converter; e) The power
factor and the displacement power factor of the converter.
40A

0A

SEL>>
-40A
I(Ls)
200V

0V

-200V
100ms
105ms
110ms
V(Rload:1) - V(Rload:2)

115ms
V(Vs:+)

120ms

125ms
Time

130ms

135ms

140ms

145ms

150ms

16A

(60.000,15.348)

(180.000,11.734)
12A

8A
(300.000,6.4795)

4A
(420.000,2.2032)
(900.000,439.489m)
(540.000,1.0312)
(660.000,922.143m)
(780.000,468.070m)

0A
0Hz

0.1KHz

0.2KHz

0.3KHz

0.4KHz

0.5KHz

I(Ls)
Frequency

0.6KHz

0.7KHz

0.8KHz

0.9KHz

1.0KHz