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EE334 Power Electronics and Drives Lab

This document summarizes a power electronics and drives lab course offered in 2016. The course aims to provide practical knowledge in designing power electronic converters and their application in motor control. Students will simulate and experimentally analyze various converters including rectifiers, inverters, choppers, and their use in motor control systems. As part of the course, students must complete a minimum of eight hardware experiments and four simulation experiments analyzing converters, drives, and closed-loop control systems.

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EE334 Power Electronics and Drives Lab

This document summarizes a power electronics and drives lab course offered in 2016. The course aims to provide practical knowledge in designing power electronic converters and their application in motor control. Students will simulate and experimentally analyze various converters including rectifiers, inverters, choppers, and their use in motor control systems. As part of the course, students must complete a minimum of eight hardware experiments and four simulation experiments analyzing converters, drives, and closed-loop control systems.

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Course code Course Name L-T-P - Credits


Introduction
EE334 Power Electronics and Drives Lab 0-0-3-1 2016

Prerequisite: EE305 Power electronics


Course Objectives
 Impart practical knowledge for the design and setup of different power electronic
converters and its application for motor control
 Simulate the various power electronics converters, AC drives and DC drives.
List of Exercises/Experiments: ( 12 experiments are mandatory)

HARDWARE EXPERIMENTS:
1. Static characteristics of SCR
Aim: Determine latching current, holding current and static characteristics of SCR
2. R and RC firing circuits
Aim: Design and set up R and RC firing circuits and observe waveforms across load resistance and
SCR
3. UJT Trigger circuit with Single phase controlled Rectifier
Aim: Design & Set up UJT Triggering Circuit and observe waveforms across load resistance, SCR,
capacitance and pulse transformer output.
4. Line Synchronised Triggering Circuits
Aim: Design and set-up line synchronized Ramp Trigger and Digital Trigger circuits and observe
the waveforms
5. Static characteristics of MOSFET
Aim: Plot the characteristics of a Power MOSFET
6. AC Voltage Controller using TRIAC
Aim: Set a 1-phase AC voltage controller & observe waveforms across load resistance, TRIAC and
capacitor for different firing angles
7. Single Phase fully Controlled SCR Bridge circuit
Aim: Set up a 1-phase full converter with RL load & with and without freewheeling diode
8. Single-phase half bridge/full bridge inverter using power MOSFET/IGBT
Aim: Design and set up a single phase half-bridge/full-bridge inverter and observe the waveforms
across load and firing pulses.
9. Single-phase sine PWM inverter with LC filter
Aim: Design and set up a single phase sine PWM inverter with LC filter using microcontroller
10. Chopper controlled DC motor
Aim: Control the speed of a DC motor using a step-down chopper
11. Speed control of 3-phase induction motor
Aim: Control the speed of 3-phase induction motor using V/f control
12. IGBT based three phase PWM Inverter
Aim: Set up a 3-phase PWM Inverter with RL load and observe the waveforms
13. Closed Loop Control of Single Phase Fully Controlled Rectifier
Aim: Design and set-up a closed loop control circuit for a 1ph Fully Controlled Rectifier such that
it keeps the load voltage constant irrespective of the load variations (use R load)

SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS:
14. Simulation of 1-phase fully-controlled and half-controlled rectifier fed separately excited DC
motor
Aim: Simulate 1-phase fully-controlled and half-controlled rectifier fed SEDC motor and observe
the speed, torque, armature current, armature voltage, source current waveforms and find the THD
in source current and input power factor.

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15. Simulation of closed loop speed control of DC motor with different control schemes (PID,
hysteresis current control, Fuzzy, ANFIS etc)
16. Simulation of open loop or closed loop speed control of 3-phase induction motor using V/f control
and using sine PWM
17. Design and simulation of buck, boost and buck-boost converters
18. Simulation of Dual Converter – 4 quadrant operation – separately excited DC motor
19. Simulation of Regenerative Braking – Bidirectional Power Transfer
20. Simulation of Switched Mode Rectifiers – keeping load voltage constant irrespective of line and
load variations – closed loop circuit simulation

Minimum of EIGHT hardware experiments and FOUR simulation experiments from the
above list are to be done
Expected outcome.
 Students will be able to design, setup and analyse various power electronic converters and
apply these converters for the implementation of various motor control applications.
Text Book:
1) L. Umanand, Power Electronics – Essentials & Applications, Wiley-India
2) Mohan, Undeland, Robbins, Power Electronics, Converters, Applications & Design, Wiley-India
3) Muhammad H. Rashid, Power Electronics Circuits, Devices and Applications, Pearson Education

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