INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY, DURGAPUR

SECOND SLOT TEST, MARCH-2011

Time Allotted: 1 hour and 30 minutes Full Marks: 15

Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable.

ELECTRICAL DRIVES (EEE 6th SEM)

EEE-604
Group – A
(Multiple Choice Type Question)

1. Choose the correct alternatives for any Eight of the following: [8 × 0.25 = 2]

i) Constant power drives falls under

a) v/f constant b) field control of DC motor c) Armature Control d) frequency control
ii) In case of AC drives which is running at rated speed if falls than current will
a) decrease b) increase c) remains same d) fluctuating
iii) if the field of DC drive motor is suddenly broken, the speed of the system will
a) Increase b) decrease c) decrease then increase d) increase & then falls to zero.
iv) In case of electrical drive motor has to work on all the four quadrant then we need
a) Single phase half wave converter b) single phase full wave converter c) 3-phase converter d) dual converter.
v) on application of plugging, the current in the drive system will
a) decrease b) increase slightly c) increase rapidly d) no change in current
vi) Dynamic braking in AC drives is done by
a) Applying more voltage b) more current c) removing AC stator supply then applying DC d) by changing the
phase sequence.
vii) Plugging in AC drives is made
a) By changing applied voltage b) by injecting the voltage at the slip c) by changing the phase sequence d) by
removing the stator voltage supply.
viii) Acceleration of electrical drives will depend on
a) motor torque b) load torque c) difference of positive torque of Motor & Load d) difference of negative torque
of Motor & Load
ix) Suppose an AC drives falls under crawling Condition the step to be taken to accelerate the drive to
normal speed by
a) By increasing the load torque b) by decreasing the load torque very low c) by decreasing the load torque to
the extend it just starts accelerating d) by restarting the electrical drives.
x) In case of resistance control of slipring motor through chopper effective resistance (R e) will be if R is
rotor resistance and α = duty cycle, then
a) Re = R(1- α) b) Re = α R c) Re = R(1 + α) d) Re = R
xi) If e.m.f. injected in the rotor circuit at β = 90° then the speed of the AC drive will
a) Increase b) decrease c) No change d) None of these

Group –B
(Short Answer Type Question)
Answer any three of the following: [3 × 2= 6]

2. Explain series parallel operation of DC traction drives. What are the advantages of this system? Why do you
use DC series motor for traction drive?
3. Explain with speed – torque characteristics, how you can control speed of AC drives? Out of different type of
control, explain why slip power recovery system is helpful?
4. Explain briefly why micro-controller & DSP base drive control are becoming popular today. Why control
technique by power electronics drives is the need of the present electrical drive system which is replacing
electrically controlled drives.
5. What you mean by constant power & constant torque drives. Explain with torque-speed characteristics how
can you comment that armature control falls under constant torque & field control falls under constant power.
Which type of drives falls under constant power & constant torque region?
6. While purchasing an electric drive motor what are the important parameters of the motor you will like to
know while drawing specification of the motor?
7. Explain with phasor diagram the effect of injecting e.m.f. in the rotor circuit of induction motor. Show that
speed decrease when injected e.m.f. is in phase opposition to standstill voltage .
8. Explain the speed control of AC drives with PWM.

Group- C
(Long Answer Type Question)
Answer any Two of the following: [2 × 3.5 = 7]

9. a) Draw the circuit diagram of step down chopper showing output voltage which will be fed to DC shunt
motor armature for speed control of DC drives. What do you mean by speed regulation?
b) Draw the four quadrant operation system & explain forward-motoring, forward braking, reverse-motoring and
reverse braking.
c) Show the operation class – A & class- B drives with chopper control.
10. a) Explain different type of braking that can be employed in DC drives system. Explain the circuit diagram
regarding dynamic & regenerating braking in DC drives.
b) A step up chopper has to increase 200 V input to 400 V DC output. If 100 μs is TOFF, what will be TON and
frequency of the chopper operation.
11. a) What do you mean by V.S.I. and C.S. I.? Explain with circuit diagram.\
b) Explain the application of 3-phase inverter with 180° operation for speed control of 3-phase induction motor.
12. a) What are the disadvantages of speed control of induction motor by changing voltage alone. Draw the
characteristics ‘T’ Vs ‘S’ of induction motor at varying voltage & varying frequency individually & explain
its drawbacks.
b) With voltage/frequency= constant system of speed control of AC motors, explain the advantages and how it
can remove the drawbacks at (a) above.

13. a) Explain with winding diagram, how the speed of AC drive control can be made by pole changing method
in steps.
b) Explain with the torque speed characteristics diagram for pole changing control drive when motor is changing
from high speed to low speed it goes to regeneration braking region before it comes to forward motoring drives.
c) Explain with T-S characteristics of slipring induction motor for low rotor resistance, high rotor resistance
with constant torque, variable torque of fan type ( T α N2). Explain that range of speed control is limited for
low rotor resistance motor and how speed control can be improved by double squirrel cage induction motor
of high rotor resistance or other suitable suggestion you know.

14. Write short Notes ( Any three)

a) AC drives & DC drives
b) Speed regulation of DC drives through chopper control
c) Artificial Intelligence based drives
d) AC drives through VSI & CSI control
e) Braking in AC drives
f) Braking in DC drives
g) Speed regulation of AC & DC drives
h) Advantage of power electronics, microcontroller & DSP based controller.
i) Concept of mass momentum of inertia and dependences of acceleration of electrical drive on it.