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EE 301 Power Electroncis Assignment 2 - 2021 Oct

The document contains 10 questions about calculating various electrical properties of controlled rectifiers and choppers, including: 1) A six-pulse thyristor converter supplying power to a DC load, calculating firing angle, power delivered, AC power, current, and thyristor current. 2) A single-phase full wave converter feeding an RLE load, calculating load current, average thyristor current, RMS thyristor current, RMS output current, average output current, and critical delay angle. 3) A three-phase full converter with continuous load current, calculating input current harmonic factor, displacement factor, and power factor. 4) A three-phase fully controlled thyristor converter,

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EE 301 Power Electroncis Assignment 2 - 2021 Oct

The document contains 10 questions about calculating various electrical properties of controlled rectifiers and choppers, including: 1) A six-pulse thyristor converter supplying power to a DC load, calculating firing angle, power delivered, AC power, current, and thyristor current. 2) A single-phase full wave converter feeding an RLE load, calculating load current, average thyristor current, RMS thyristor current, RMS output current, average output current, and critical delay angle. 3) A three-phase full converter with continuous load current, calculating input current harmonic factor, displacement factor, and power factor. 4) A three-phase fully controlled thyristor converter,

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EE/EL – 301 Power Electronics Assignment II

(Controlled Rectifiers & Choppers)


1. A six-pulse thyristor converter, connected on the secondary of a 11kV / 700V, 50𝐻𝑧 transformer is
supplying power to a 750𝑉, 200𝐴 DC load. Calculate: -
a) Convertor firing angle
b) DC power delivered by the converter
c) AC terminal power
d) AC line current
e) Thyristor Current

2. The single-phase full wave converter feeding an RLE load has 𝐿 = 6𝑚𝐻, 𝑅 = 0.5Ω and 𝐸 = 10𝑉. The
input voltage is 𝑉𝑠 = 120𝑉 at 60Hz. Determine the load current for:
a) 𝛼 = 60°
b) The average thyristor current
c) The rms thyristor current
d) The rms output current
e) The average output current
f) The critical delay (firing) angle

3. The load current of a three-phase full converter is continuous with negligible ripple content.
a) Express the input current in Fourier Series, and determine the harmonic factor (HF) of input current, the
displacement factor (DF) and the input power factor (PF).
𝜋
b) If the delay angle 𝛼 = 3 , calculate HF, DF and PF.

4. A three phase fully controlled thyristor converter is connected to a three-phase AC supply of 400V, 50Hz
𝜋
and operates with a firing angle 𝛼 = 4 . The load current is maintained constant at 10A and the load voltage is
360V. Compute: -
a) Source inductance
b) Load resistance
c) Overlap angle

5. A three-phase full wave converter is operated from a three-phase Y connected 208V, 60Hz power supply
and the load resistance is 10Ω. If it is required to obtain an average output voltage of 50% of the maximum
possible output voltage, calculate: -
a) The delay angle, 𝛼
b) The rms and average output currents
c) The rms and average thyristor currents
d) The rectification efficiency.
e) The transformer utilisation factor
f) The input power factor

6. Derive the generalised expression for the instantaneous load current of a single-phase full wave converter
feeding an RLE load, when: -
a) The current is continuous.
b) The current is discontinuous.
7. Discuss the effect of source inductance on the performance of a single-phase full converter indicating
clearly the conduction of various thyristors during one cycle.

8. A 220 V dc shunt motor runs at 1500 rpm at no load. The motor is fed through a type A chopper. Find the
speed of the motor when it draws 20 A current for a duty ratio of α = 0.6. Armature resistance, Ra = 1Ω.

9. Consider the above case. Find the duty cycle of chopper when peak to peak ripple is limited to 10A.
Chopping frequency is 200Hz and the load inductance is 10 mH. Neglect the armature resistance. Source voltage
is 200V.

10. A type A chopper is feeding a RLE load with Vs= 220V, R = 5Ω, L= 15.5 mH, f = 5 kHz, α = 0.5 and E=
20V. Calculate (a) the minimum instantaneous load current (b) the peak instantaneous load current (c) the
maximum peak to peak ripple current in the load (d) the average load current ( e ) the rms load current (f) the
effective input resistance and (g) the rms value of the chopper current.

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