Assignment 1

Due date: 2020-02-12, 23:59 IST.

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The manufacturer of a selected power diode gives the rate of fall of the diode current is 20 A/μs,
and a reverse recovery time of 5μs. What value of peak reverse current do you expect ?

44.72 A
55.63 A
100 A
86.54 A
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A current waveform passing through a power diode which has pulse duration 0.6 ms within a
period of 1 ms and with peak amplitude of 45A. What is the average and RMS value of this
current ?

12A, 26.54 A
27A, 34.86 A
17A, 27.51 A
31A, 49.33 A
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Calculate the voltage safety factor of SCR where the peak repetitive reverse voltage is 1kV and
peak value of input voltage is 315V.

2.5
2.11
1.86
2.24
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Consider an AC voltage source of 12sinωt is supplying power to a resistive load of 10Ω through
a switch. Assume the switch is ideal and initially off and it control works in such a way that it
toggles every time when the source voltage crosses zero. Calculate the efficiency of the system.

100%
95%
90%
85%
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A transistor is connected parallel with a diode in reverse mode. It has the capacity of

Forward current carrying and forward voltage blocking

Forward current carrying and bidirectional voltage blocking
Bidirectional current carrying and forward voltage blocking
Bidirectional current carrying and bidirectional voltage blocking
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Which of the following device is level sensitive ?

MOSFET
SCR
GTO
Power Diode
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For an SCR, the gate cathode characteristics has a straight line slope of 140. For trigger source
voltage of 20V and allowable gate power dissipation of 0.6W. Compute the gate source
resistance.

151.74Ω
154.13Ω
162.52Ω
167.69Ω
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Power electronic device with poor turn off gain is

Gate turn off thyristor

A conventional thyristor
power bipolar junction transistor
Power MOSFET
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A power diode with small softness factor (S-factor) has

small oscillatory over voltages

large oscillatory over voltages
large peak reverse current
small peak reverse current
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Latching current for an SCR is 100 mA, DC source of 200 V is also connected from the SCR to
the L load. Compute the minimum width of the gate pulse required to turn on the device. Take L
= 0.2 H.

50 μsec
150 μsec
100 μsec
200 μsec
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Assignment 2
Due date: 2020-02-12, 23:59 IST.
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For a half wave uncontrolled rectifier with resistive load of 15Ω and input voltage is 220V.
Calculate the power factor of the circuit.

0.812
0.707
0.963
0.611
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For a half-wave diode rectifier the following parameters are given- R=100Ω, L= 0.1 H, ω=377
rad/s, and Vm=100 V. Calculate the extinction angle β.

5.6 rad/s
4.2 rad/s
3.50 rad/s
9.2 rad/s
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For the designing of an uncontrolled half wave rectifier circuit with battery, where R=2Ω, L=20
mH, and battery voltage, Vdc=100 V. The ac source is 120 Vrms at 60 Hz. Determine the power
absorbed by the resistor.

31.7 W
42.5 W
38.9 W
 33.25 W
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A single phase diode bridge rectifier is fed from 220V, 50Hz source and is connected to a load of
500Ω. Design a capacitor filter so that the ripple factor of the output voltage is less than 5%.
Also determine the average value of output voltage with that C filter.

156μF, 295.81V
158μF, 305.74V
159μF, 300.63V
151μF, 290.52V
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A thyristor controlling the power in a load resistance R. The supply voltage is 230V dc and the
specified limit for di/dt and dv/dt for the SCR are 40A/μs and 280V/μs respectively. Determine
the snubber circuit parameters Rs and Cs. Consider the damping factor d=0.65.

5Ω, 0.63μF
6Ω, 0.23μF
7Ω, 0.19μF
8.9Ω, 0.33μF
1 point
Consider a half wave uncontrolled rectifier circuit with freewheeling diode, where R= 10Ω,
L=25mH, Vm=315V peak and frequency is 50Hz. Calculate the RMS value of the load current.

17.66 A
15.21 A
16.34 A
13.558 A
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Find out the output RMS voltage of a single phase half wave controlled rectifier with R= 50Ω,
L= 10mH, Vin (RMS) = 220V, α=300 and β=2000.

190 V
270 V
150 V
230 V
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If a half wave half controlled converter is connected with RL load and free wheeling diode what
will be the output RMS voltage? Consider the firing angle is 600.

0.96 Vm
0.707 Vm
0.68 Vm
0.45 Vm

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A 230 V, 50 Hz, one-pulse SCR controlled converter has extinction angle β = 210°. Find the
circuit turn-off time.

10 m-sec
0
8.3 m-sec
5.4 m-sec
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A single-phase diode bridge rectifier is required to supply a dc output voltage of 220 V to a bulb
of R = 25 Ω. Find the average and rms value of diode current.

2.84 A, 3.64 A
3.96 A, 6.22 A
4.58 A, 8.12 A
5.61 A, 10.79 A
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Assignment 3
Due date: 2020-02-19, 23:59 IST.

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A single-phase three-branch shunt passive filter (third, fifth, and high-pass) is employed to
reduce the THD of the supply current and to improve the displacement factor to unity of a single-
phase 220 V, 50 Hz fed diode bridge converter with an overlap angle of 30° drawing 15 A
constant DC current Calculate fundamental reactive power drawn by the load,
 755.15 VAr

760.15 VAr

765.15VAr

770.15 VAr

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In above question A3Q1, calculates the Element values of the passive filter C3,

16.64 micro F

17.62 micro F

17.92 micro F

18.62 micro F

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In above question A3Q3, calculates the Element values of the passive filter L5,

24.35 mH

2562 mH

26.92 mH

27.22 mH

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In above question A3Q4 calculates Element values of the passive filter RH (consider quality
factor 0.9)

28.23 ohm

29.72 ohm

30.34ohm

31.65 ohm

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Single-phase fully controlled bridge converter is used as a line commutated inverter (LCI) to
feed power from a battery with 170V and an internal resistance of 0.1Ω. The supply voltage is
220V (rms) and sufficient inductance is included in the output circuit to maintain the current
virtually constant at 15 A. Determine the required delay angle α (degree),

156.32

142.32

141.32

148.32

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In above question A3Q5. Calculates the total harmonic distortion of AC source current (THD) in
percentage.

48.23%

48.43%

48.13%
 48.53%

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A three-phase three-branch shunt passive filter (tuned fifth, seventh, and high-pass) is employed
to reduce the THD of the supply current and to improve the displacement factor to unity for a
three-phase 400 V,50 Hz fed six-pulse thyristor bridge converter drawing 80A constant DC
current at 30° firing angle of its thyristors. Calculate the capacitor values 5th tuned filter. Let the
supply has 5% source impedance mainly inductive.

140.12 micro F

134 .12 micro F

156.21 micro F

143.27 micro F

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In above question A3Q7. Calculate values of filter elements L7,

1.51 mH

1.44 mH

1.33 mH

1.21 mH

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In above question A3Q7. Calculate values of filter elements Rh (consider the quality factor 1.1)

1.82 ohm
 1.78 ohm

1.72 ohm

1.68 ohm

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In above question A3Q7. Calculates the fifth harmonics current after compensation. (Consider
the quality factor 30)

0A

0.9 A

1.5 A

2.045 A

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