Sri Ramajayam

SASTRA UNIVERSIY
SHANMUGHA ARTS, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH ACADEMY
(A University established under Section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956)
THANJAVUR– 613 402, Tamil Nadu, India

SUBJECTS OF STUDY AND SYLLABI FOR

VI - SEMESTER
B.TECH (EEE) PROGRAMME
(2007 admission and afterwards)

Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

 SEMESTER – VI

Course Code Name of Course Periods/Week Credits

L T P
BEECEE 601 Power Electronics 4 1 - 5
BEECEE 602 Advanced Control Systems 3 1 - 4
BEECEE 603 Microprocessors & their 3 1 - 4
applications
BEECEE 604 Power System Analysis 3 1 - 4
Electives(Two out of four)
BEEDEE 601 HVDC transmission 3 1 - 4
BEEDEE 602 Special Electrical Machines 3 1 - 4
BEEDEC 603 Digital Signal Processing 3 1 - 4
BEEDEC 604 Image Processing 3 1 - 4
Laboratory
BEECEE 605 Electrical Machines Lab II - - 3 2
BEECEE 606 Power Electronics Lab - - 3 2
BEECTP 607 HR Skills – IV 1 - - 1
20/21 6 6 30
 Students must undergo a 3 day compulsory ‘Feel employable’ Programme
(No credit) at the end of sixth semester.
 Department electives may be grouped if necessary as either or type

BEECEE 601 POWER ELECTRONICS

Credits :5
Lecture periods/week :4
Tutorials /Week :1

Unit 1 18 periods
Power semiconductor devices: Silicon diodes – Thyristor: Principle of operation – two
transistor analogy – ratings and specifications – protection against high di/dt and high
dv/dt – turn on and turn off methods – Gate triggering circuits – Series and parallel
operation of thyristors – methods to ensure proper current and voltage sharing – string
efficiency.

Power semiconductor devices other than SCRs – Triac, power transistor, MOSFET,
IGBT, GTO, MCT, SIT – physics of device operation and steady state characteristics.

Unit 2 19 periods
Line commutated converters using thyristors: phase control – half wave phase
controlled converters with R, RL and RLE load – free-wheeling – full wave phase
controlled converters – single phase semi-converters – line commutated inverters -
estimation of load voltage, load current and source power factor under continuous
current conduction – performance parameters for rectifiers – effect of source inductance.

Three phase half controlled and fully controlled converters – waveforms and average load
voltage for continuous current operation.

Single phase and three phase dual converters – circulating and non-circulating mode of
operation.

Unit 3 19 periods
Chopper using devices other than SCRs: principle of operation – control strategies –
TRC & CLC types – step up and step down choppers – quadrant operation – estimation
of load voltage and load current for continuous current operation.

AC voltage controllers – principle of on/off control and phase control – single phase ac
voltage regulator with R, RL load – Three phase ac voltage controllers – application of ac
voltage controllers in TCR, TSC.

Cyclo converters – principle of operation – single phase cycloconverter (operation and

wave form only).

Unit 4 19 periods
Inverters using devices other than SCR: Classification of inverters – performance
parameters for inverters – voltage source inverters – single phase half bridge and full
bridge inverters – current source inverters – Three phase voltage source inverters – Three
phase current source inverters.

Voltage control and harmonic reduction in inverters – control of dc voltage supplied to

the inverter – PWM inverter – single pulse, multiple pulse and sinusoidal pulse width
modulation – unipolar and bipolar PWM - implementation of PWM in single phase
bridge inverters – harmonic elimination by PWM – harmonic reduction by transformer
connection – Harmonic reduction by stepped wave inverter.

References:

(1) Ned Mohan, Tore M Undeland, William P Robbins “Power Electronics –

converters, application and design” (3rd edition) John Wiley & Sons, New York,
2003.
(2) Rashid, M H “Power Electronics” Pearson education, 3rd edition, 2003..
(3) Dewan S B Stranghen A “Power Semiconductor Devices” John Wiley & Sons
New York 1975.
(4) M D Singh “Power Electronics” Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, 1st edition, 2001.
(5) P S Bimbhra “Power Electronics” Khanna Publishers, New Delhi, 1st edition,
2006.
 BEECEE 602 ADVANCED CONTROL SYSTEMS

Credits :4
Lecture periods/week :3
Tutorials /Week :1

UNIT - 1 (15 PERIODS)

Linear System Design: Introduction to compensating networks - lag, lead
compensation - series and feedback compensation - P, PI, PID compensators - Design of
series compensators using Bode Plot and Root Locus techniques.

UNIT - 2 (15 PERIODS)

Non-linear Systems: Properties of non-linear systems - Describing function for non-
linearity like on-off, dead zone hysteresis and saturation - Describing function analysis
of N/L systems - study of limit cycle using describing function.

Phase plane method - Basic concepts - singular points - construction of phase plane
trajectory for linear and non-linear systems using Isocline method.

UNIT - 3 (13 PERIODS)

Sampled Data Systems: Sampling process - Shannon's sampling theorem -
reconstruction of sampled signals - zero order hold circuit - z transform and inverse z
transform - mapping between s and z planes - Pulse transfer functions - determination of
pulse transfer function of closed loop system.

UNIT – 4 (17 PERIODS)

State Space Analysis: State space formulation classification of system based on type of
state equation - state variables - state space model from differential equations - phase
variables and canonical variables - solution of state equations - state transition matrix -
properties - Controllability and Observability.
Introduction to advances in control systems-optimal control-adaptive control-robust
control-distributed control systems.(conceptual and descriptive treatment only)

References:

1. K.Ogata `Modern Control Engineering' Prentice Hall, 4th edition, 2003.

2. Charles. L.Phillips ‘ Feedback Control Systems' Prentice Hall Inc, 4th edition, 1999.
3. I.J.Nagarth and M.Gopal ‘control system engineering’ New age international, 3rd
edition, 2001.
4. Richard C Dorf and Robert H.Bishop ‘Modern Control Systems' Addison Wesley
Longman, 9th Edition, Reprint 2001.
5. K.Ogata ‘Discrete-Time control systems’ Prentice Hall, 2nd edition, 2002.
 BEECEE 603 MICROPROCESSORS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Credits :4
Lecture periods/week : 3
Tutorial period/week : 1

UNIT 1 15 Periods
8085 Architecture and Instructions: 8085 microprocessor and its architecture –Bus
structure – Multiplexing – Demultiplexing – Generating control signals - Instruction set –
Instruction classification – Instruction format – Opcode format – Instruction timing and
operating status – Timing diagram for data transfer instructions – Addressing modes –
Data transfer between processor and memory/(input/output).

UNIT 2 15 Periods
Assembly Language Programming: Concept of assembly and machine language
programs – Assembler – Programming using data transfer, arithmetic, logical and
compare instructions – Code conversion – Sorting – Counters and time delays – Stacks
and Subroutines – Interrupts: maskable, non-maskable, vectored and non-vectored
interrupts.. Interrupt Service Subroutines..

UNIT 3 15 Periods
Interfacing Techniques: Basic interfacing concepts - Interfacing memory to 8085
(both RAM & ROM) - Memory system design – address decoding – Preparation of
memory map - Interfacing I/O – Memory mapped I/O and I/O mapped I/O – Interfacing
keyboard – Interfacing Displays.
Interfacing chips – 8255 PPI – 8253 PIT – 8251 PCI ( based on functional block
diagram only). Interfacing ADC and DAC. RS 232C standard

UNIT 4 15 Periods
Applications of 8085 & 8086/8088 Architecture: Control of Stepper Motor - control of
firing circuit of thyristor – Speed control of DC motor (block diagram only) – Speed
control of AC motor (block diagram only) - temperature monitoring and control –
tachometer.- Measurement of period and phase angle.
8086/8088 Architecture- Bus Interface & Execution units – prefetch – CPU. Registers-
Data registers – pointers and Index registers – segment registers – memory space –
memory segmentation – Generating memory address – overview of addressing modes –
Listing of instruction groups.

References:
1. R.S.Gaonkar, ‘Microprocessor Architecture, Programming and Applications’,
Wiley Eastern Ltd, 1999.
2. Badri Ram, ‘Fundamentals of Microprocessors and Microcomputers’, Dhanpat
Rai, 1999
3. Adithya P. Mathur, ‘ Introduction to Microprocessors’, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001
4. K.Krishnamoorthy, ‘Microprocessor Lab Primer’ Interline Publisher,
Bangalore.1997.
 5. Walter A. Triebel and Avatar Singh, ‘The 8088 and 8086 Microprocessors’, PHI,
New Delhi, 1995.

BEECEE 604 POWER SYSTEM ANALYSIS

Credits :4
Lecture periods/week: 3
Tutorial period/week: 1

UNIT-1 15 Periods
Power System Model: Representation - Single Line Diagram - Per Unit Quantities -
Per Unit Impedance Diagrams – Per Unit Reactance Diagrams - Networks Formulation
using Bus Impedance Matrix and Bus Admittance Matrix - Sequence Impedance and
Networks.

UNIT-2 15 Periods
Power Flow Studies: Formulation of Load Flow Problem using Y Bus Matrix - Power
Flow Analysis - Gauss Seidal, Newton Raphson, Decoupled and Fast decoupled
Methods - Handling of Voltage Controlled Buses - Comparison of Methods.

UNIT-3 15 Periods
Symmetrical Short Circuit Analysis: Symmetrical components of unbalanced 3 phase
system - Types of Faults in Power Systems - Symmetrical Fault Analysis - Short Circuit
Capacity - Symmetrical Fault Analysis through Z Bus.

Unsymmetrical Fault Analysis: Unsymmetrical Faults in Power Systems - Analysis of

Single Line to Ground Fault, Line to Line Fault, and Double Line to Ground Faults in
Power System Elements with and without Fault Impedance – Unsymmetrical Fault
Analysis in Power Systems using Z Bus.

UNIT-4 15 Periods
Stability Analysis: Steady State and Transient Stability - Stability Limits - Swing
Equation for Single Machine Infinite Bus System - Equal Area Criterion - Solution of
Swing Equation by Modified Euler Method.

References:

1. I.J.Nagrath and D.P.Kothari, Power System Engineering, Tata McGraw Hill, 2001.
2. W.D.Stevenson, Elements of Power System Analysis, Tata McGraw Hill, Fourth
Edition.
3. C.L.Wadhwa, Electrical Power Systems, New Age International Publishers, Fourth
Edition, 2005.
4. G.W.Stagg & A.H.El. Abiad, Computer Methods in Power System Analysis,
McGraw Hill, New York, 1968.
5. S.S.Vadhera, Power System Analysis and Stability, Khanna Publishers, 2000.
6. O.L.Elgerd, Electrical Energy Systems Theory, An Introduction, Tata McGraw
Hill, Second Edition, 1983.

BEEDEE 601 HIGH VOLTAGE DC TRANSMISSION

Credits :4
Lecture periods/week :3
Tutorials /Week :1

UNIT-1 15 PERIODS
General Aspects: Historical development of HV AC and DC links - Kinds of DC links
- HVDC projects in India and Abroad - Advantages and disadvantages of HVDC
transmission - Principal applications of DC transmission - Economic factors – Modern
Trends in HVDC Systems - Thyristors - Switching and steady state characteristics -
Light Activated Thyristors - MOS Controlled Thyristors (MCTs)

UNIT-2 15 PERIODS
Thyristor Converters: Three-phase fully controlled thyristor bridge converters -
Operation as rectifiers and line commutated inverters - Analysis of Bridge Converters
(Without and With Overlap – Two & Three Valve Conduction mode), Converter
equivalent circuits, Parameters and characteristics of rectifiers and inverters - Series and
parallel arrangements of thyristors – Multi-bridge converters.

UNIT-3 15 PERIODS
Control of Converters: Gate control - Basic means of control - Desired features of
control - Control characteristics - Power reversal - Constant current control - Constant
extinction angle control - Stability of control - Tap changer control - Power control and
current limits – Starting and Stopping of DC Links.

UNIT-4 15 PERIODS
Protection Aspects: Basis of Protection of HVDC systems – Overvoltage &
Overcurrent protection - DC reactors - Clearing line faults and re-energizing the line –
DC circuit breakers.

Harmonics: Characteristic and Uncharacteristic harmonics - Troubles caused by

Harmonics - Means of reducing harmonics, Telephone interference – Harmonic filters
(Types only) – Ground Return.

References

1. K.R.Padiyar, HVDC, Power Transmission System Technology and System

Interactions, New Age International Publishers, 1999.

2. P. Kundur, Power System Stability and Control, EPRI, Power System Engineering
Series, Tata McGraw Hill, 1993.
 BEEDEE 602 SPECIAL ELECTRICAL MACHINES
Credits :4
Lecture periods/week :3
Tutorials /Week :1

UNIT-1 (16 PERIODS)

Brushless d.c. motors: Terminology – Classification based on phases and pulses –
Advantages – Three phase six pulse brushless d.c. motor schematic and operation –
circuit model and characteristics - Permanent magnet brushless d.c. machines. AC series
motor with and without compensating winding
UNIT-2 (14 PERIODS)
Switched Reluctance Motor:Principle of operation – Nature of torque production –
modes of operation – Power converter – Block diagram – current waveforms – Different
power circuit configuration.

References (Unit 1 & 2):

1. S.K.Pillai, A First Course on Electrical Drives, Wiley Eastern Ltd, 5th Reprint, 1994.
2. Nagrath & Kothari , “ Electric Machines” Tata McGrawhill, 2nd Edition, 2005

UNIT-3 (14 PERIODS)

Stepper motors: Introduction – Stepper motor with permanent magnet rotor –
Schematic and operation – Variable reluctance stepper motor – schematic & operation -
half stepping- Reduction gear stepper motor – Stepper motor characteristics : Torque –
displacement curves – Torque – stepping rate curves – Power converter for stepper
motor.

References
1. S.K.Pillai, A First Course on Electrical Drives, Wiley Eastern Ltd, 5th Reprint, 1994.
2. Vincent Del Toro – Electric Machines & Power System – Prentice Hall of India. 5th
Reprint, 1996.

UNIT-4 (16 PERIODS)

Rectifier Transformer: Comparison between rectifier transformer & Power
Transformer – Rectifier circuits: six pulse system & 12 pulse system – Constructional
features of rectifier transformer – Transformer utilization factor – Design features of
regulation transformer, rectifier transformer & inter phase transformer – Transductor
schematic diagram.
Hysterisis Motor – Construction, Principle of operation.
Linear induction motor - Principle of operation – Types of construction – Typical
applications.

References:
1. BHEL Transformers, Tata McGraw hill. 11th Reprint, 1997.
2. Nagrath & Kothari ,“ Electric Machines”, Tata McGrawhill, 2nd Edition, 2005.
3. S.A.Naser, Linear induction motors : Theory , Design and practical applications –
Prentice – Hall,INC, 1987.
 BEEDEC 603 DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING

Credits:4
Lecture Periods/week: 3
Totorials/week: 1

UNIT-1 15 PERIODS

Introduction to signals and systems: Signals – Continuous and Discrete – Periodic and
aperiodic – Linear time invariant system – Discrete time system – Convolution theorem
– Continuous time system – Convolution integral – Fourier transform of continuous &
Discrete signals (CTFT & DTFT) -Frequency response or Transfer function of an LTI
system - Frequency response of first and second order systems - Realization structures:
Direct forms-I & II, cascade and parallel forms.

UNIT-2 15 PERIODS

DFT and FFT: Discrete convolutions - Linear and circular, Sectioned convolutions,
discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and its properties - Relationship between z-
transform, DTFT and DFT - Introduction to radix-2 Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) -
Decimation-in-time radix-2 FFT - Decimation-in-frequency radix-2FFT - Computation
of inverse DFT through FFT - Fortran programs for FFT.

UNIT-3 15 PERIODS

Finite-Impulse Response (FIR) Filters: Magnitude response and phase response of

digital filters - Linear phase response - Design techniques for FIR filters - Fourier
series method and Frequency sampling method - Linear phase designs - Windos -
Rectangular, Hamming, Hanning and Kaiser.

UNIT-4 15 PERIODS

Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) Digital Filters: Review of the properties of

Butterworth and Chebychev filters of the continuous - time type, IIR digital filter design
from continuous - time filters using impulse - Invariance techniques and Bilinear
transformation.

References:

1. Oppenheim and Schafer, Digital Signal Processing, PHI, 1999.

2. Rabiner and Gold, Digital Signal Processing, Theory and Applications, PHI, 1978.
3. Oppenheim, Schafer and Hamid, Signals and Systems, PHI, 1996.
 BEEDEC 604 IMAGE PROCESSING
Credits :4
Lecture periods/week :3
Tutorials /Week :1
UNIT – I 15 PERIODS
Digital Image Processing: Electromagnetic spectrum according to energy per photon-
Imaging techniques in different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum – Steps involved
in Fundamental steps involved in digital image processing – Components of an image
processing system

UNIT – II 15 PERIODS
Image Enhancement & Morphological Processing: Contrast Manipulation - Histogram
Modification - Noise Cleaning - Edge Crispening - Filtering in frequency domain –
Sharpening frequency domain filters - Color Image Enhancement - Multispectral Image
Enhancement -Dilation- Erosion- Opening and closing

UNIT – III 15 PERIODS

Image Segmentation: Point detection - line detection and edge detection – threshold -
Global Thresholding - Local Thresholding - Region based segmentation – Region
growing – Region splitting and Merging

UNIT – IV 15 PERIODS
Image Representation and Description: Image representation using chain codes –
Signatures – Boundary segments – Skeletons - Boundary descriptors using simple
descriptors – Statistical moments – Regional descriptors using texture and moment
invariants – Principal Components for description

References:
1. Rafael. C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods, ‘Digital Image Processing’, Pearson
Education, 2003.
2. Rafael. C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods, ‘Digital Image Processing using
MATLAB’, Pearson Education, 2003.
3. Anil K. Jain, ‘Fundamentals of Digital Image processing’, Pearson Education
information and System Sciences Series, 2001.
4. Williams K. Pratt, ‘digital Image processing’, Pics inside, Wiley Interscience, 2007.
 BEECEE 605 ELECTRICAL MACHINES LAB - II

Credits :2
No. of practical period/week: 3

1. Predetermination of voltage regulation of 3 Phase Alternator by EMF Method.

2. Predetermination of voltage regulation of 3 Phase Salient Pole Alternator by

performing Slip Test.

3. Determination of voltage regulation of 3 phase alternator by direct loading

method. (Resistive, Inductive & Capacitive Loads).

4. Synchronization of 3 phase A.C. generator on infinite bus bars. (Dark Lamp

method).

5. V-Curves and inverted V-curves of 3 phase synchronous motor.

6. Load test on 3 phase cage induction motor.

7. Load test on slip ring induction motor.

8. No load and blocked rotor tests on 3 phase cage induction motor and
determination of equivalent circuit parameters and performance analysis at various
slips.

9. Load test on capacitor start and run single-phase induction motor.

10. Operation of 3-phase induction machine as line excited induction generator and
determination of power output Vs slip characteristics.

11. Load test on capacitor start single-phase induction motor.

12. Speed control of 3 phase induction motor by Pole changing method.

 BEECEE 606 POWER ELECTRONICS LAB

Credits :2
No. of practical period/week: 3

1. Single phase half wave phase controlled rectifier and full wave phase controlled
bridge rectifier.
2. Three phase half bridge controlled rectifier.
3. Three phase fully controlled bridge rectifier.
4. Speed control of universal motor.
5. Single phase AC chopper.
6. Three phase AC chopper.
7. DC chopper using transistor with isolation and driving circuits.
8. Parallel inverter.
9. Series inverter
10. IGBT based single – phase PWM inverter
11. Mc-Murray-Bed ford inverter.
12. Simulation of AC & DC networks using PSPICE.
13. Microprocessor based triggering scheme for SCR.
14. Simple power electronics circuit simulation in PSIM software.

ANY TWELVE EXPERIMENTS ONLY

 BEECTP 607 HR Skills –IV

Credits :2
No. of practical period/week: 3

Sl.No Details No. of

Classes

1. Self Introduction by students and Introduction to Personality 1

Development classes by staff
2. Breaking the barriers 2
3. Impromptu 3
4. Creative Writing (Based on visual pictures) 1
5. Word Game (checking vocabulary power) 1
6. Role Play 2
7. Letter writing (Leave letter, Joining report, Acceptance to offer) 1
8. Public Speaking (Extempore speech) 2
9. End semester Examinations 2
Total 15

Continuous Internal Assessment – Evaluation System

Impromptu 10 Marks
Letter writing 10 Marks
Public Speaking 10 Marks
Class Room involvement 10 Marks
Attendance 10 Marks

Total 50 Marks