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The document provides 10 problems related to rectifiers, including controlled half-wave and full-wave rectifiers with resistive and RL loads. It asks the reader to determine values such as average current, power absorbed, power factor, load current expressions, and diode currents for various rectifier circuits operating with given source voltages, frequencies, load resistances and inductances, and delay angles.

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The document provides 10 problems related to rectifiers, including controlled half-wave and full-wave rectifiers with resistive and RL loads. It asks the reader to determine values such as average current, power absorbed, power factor, load current expressions, and diode currents for various rectifier circuits operating with given source voltages, frequencies, load resistances and inductances, and delay angles.

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BENE 4343 – POWER ELECTRONICS AND DRIVE

TUTORIAL 2 (RECTIFIER)

1. For the controlled half-wave rectifier with a resistive load, the source is 120 V rms at 60 Hz.
The resistance is 100 Ω and the delay angle α is 45 ̊.
a) Determine the average across the resistor.
b) Determine the power absorbed by the resistor.
c) Determine the power factor as seen by the source.

2. A controlled have-wave rectifier has an ac source of 240 V rms at 60 Hz. The load is 30 Ω
resistor.
a) Determine delay angle such that the average load current is 2.5 A.
b) Determine power absorbed by the load.
c) Determine the power factor.

3. A controlled half-wave rectifier has an RL load with R = 40 Ω and L = 75 mH. The source is 120
V rms at 60 Hz. The delay angle is 60 ̊. Determine
a) An expression for load current.
b) The average load current.
c) The power absorbed by the load.

4. A certain situation requires that either 160 or 75 W be supplied to a 48 V battery from a 120
V rms 60 Hz ac source. There is a two-position switch on a control panel set at either 160 or
75. Design a single circuit to deliver both values of power and specify what the control swicth
will do. Specify the values of all components in your circuit. The internal resistance of the
battery is 0.1 Ω.

5. A single-phase full-wave bridge rectifier has a resistive laod of 18 Ω and an ac source of 120 V
rms. Determine the average, peak and rms currents in the load and in each diode.

6. A single-phase bridge rectifier has an RL load with R = 12 Ω and L = 20 mH. The ac source is
120 V rms and 60 Hz. Determine:

a) The average load current.


b) The power absorbed by the load.
c) The power factor.
7. The full-wave rectifier has vs(ωt) = 170 sin ωt V, R = 3 Ω, L = 15 mH, Vdc = 48 V and ω = 2π(60)
rad/s. Determine:
a) The power absorbed by the dc source.
b) The power absorbed by the resistor.
c) The power factor.
d) Estimate the peak-to-peak variation in the load current by considering only the first
ac term in the Fourier series for current.

8. The full-wave rectifier has 60 Hz a suource with Vm = 100 V. It is to supply a load that
required to limit the peak-to-peak ouput ripple voltage to 1 percent of the dc output.
Determine the peak and average diode currents.

9. The controlled single-phase bridge rectifier has a 20 Ω resistive load and has a 120 V rms ac
source. The delay angle is 45 ̊. Determine

a) the average load current.


b) The rms load current.
c) The rms source current.
d) The power factor.

10. The controlled single-phase full-wave bridge rectifier has a RL load with R = 30 Ω and L = 75
mH. The source is 120 V at 60 Hz. Determine the average load current for α = 20 ̊ and α = 80 ̊.

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