BTech Electrical

Assignment 3 Submission: 25/10/2024

5.1 A dc motor is to be selected for driving a load having a large torque of short duration followed
by a long no-load period. A flywheel of suitable inertia is already mounted on the load shaft.
Suggest the most suitable dc motor for this application and explain your choice.

5.3 A dc separately excited motor is running at 800 rpm driving a load whose torque is constant.
Motor armature current is 500 A. The armature resistance drop and rotational losses are
negligible. Magnetic circuit can be assumed to be linear. Calculate motor speed and armature
current if terminal voltage is reduced to 50% and field current is reduced to 80%.

5.5 А 220 V. 800 rpm, 80 A separately excited motor has an armature resistance of 0.12 Ω. Motor
is driving under rated conditions, a load whose torque is same at all speeds. Calculate motor
speed if the source voltage drops to 200 V.

5.9 State and explain the important features of various braking methods of dc motors.

5.1 A 230 V, 870 rpm, 100 A separately excited dc motor has an armature resistance of 0.05Ω. It is
0 coupled to an overhauling load with a torque of 400 N-m. Determine the speed at which motor
can hold the load by regenerative braking.

5.1 A 230 V, 960 rpm and 200 A dc separately excited motor has an armature resistance of 0.02 Ω.
1 It is driving an overhauling load whose torque may vary from zero to rated motor torque. Field
flux can be changed and field saturates at 1.2 times the rated flux. Calculate speed range in
which motor can hold the load by regenerative braking without exceeding twice the rated
motor current.

5.1 A dc shunt motor has an armature resistance of 0.2 Ω and field winding resistance of 120 Ω.
7 Following. magnetization characteristic was measured at 1000 rpm:
Field current, A 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.75 1 1.5
2.0
Back emf, V 80 120 150 170 200 220 245
263
Motor is holding an overhauling load of 50 N-m by self-excited dynamic braking with a
braking resistance of 10 Ω. Calculate the motor speed.

5.1 Calculate value of R B,when motor of Problem 17 is required to hold overhauling load at 900
8 rpm.

5.1 Dynamic braking is applied to bring a dc separately excited motor to rest from its initial speed
9 of 1600 rpm and a load torque which is proportional to speed and equal to 20% of the rated
motor torque at 1500 rpm. Motor has following rating and parameters:
 220 V, 1500 rpm, 50 A, Ra = 0.5 Ω, La= 50 mH and J = 2 kg-m²

(a) Determine braking resistance, so as to limit armature current to twice the rated value,
neglecting the effect of inductance.
(b) Derive expressions of motor speed and armature current including the effect of armature
inductance with motor field flux at the rated value.
(c) Calculate time taken by the braking operation.

5.2 Motor of Problem 19 is braked to stop by plugging from its initial speed of 1500 rpm and a
1 load torque which is proportional to speed and equal to 25% of rated motor torque at 1500
rpm.

(a) Determine braking resistance so as to limit armature current to 3 times the rated
value, neglecting effect of inductance.
(b) Derive expressions of motor speed and armature current including effect of
armature inductance with motor field flux at the rated value.
(c) Calculate braking time.

5.2 State and explain how armature current and speed of a dc separately excited motor will be
4 affected by each of the following changes in its operating conditions:
(i) Halving armature voltage and field current with load torque remaining
constant.
(ii) Halving armature voltage with field current and power developed
remaining constant.
(iii) Doubling flux with armature voltage and load torque remaining constant.
(iv) Halving both, the armature voltage and field flux, with developed power
remaining constant.
(v) Halving armature voltage with flux remaining constant and load torque
proportional to speed squared.

5.2 A separately excited dc motor is used as an adjustable speed drive over the speed range 0 to
8 2N rpm. Speed is varied from 0 to N by varying armature voltage from 0 to V at a constant
flux. Speed is changed from N to 2N by varying flux with armature voltage maintained
constant at V.
(i) Draw armature current vs speed curve for the entire speed range for a
constant load torque.
(ii) Draw torque vs speed curve for the entire speed range when armature
current is maintained constant.

5.3 A 220 V, 200 A, 750 rpm separately excited motor has an armature resistance of 0.05 Ω. It is
0 driving a load whose torque has an expression T L= 500 - 0.25N N-m, where N is the speed in
rpm. Speeds below rated are obtained by armature voltage control (with full field) and speeds
above rated are obtained by field control (with rated armature voltage).
(i) Calculate motor terminal voltage and armature current when the speed is
 400 rpm.
(ii) Calculate value of flux as a percent of rated flux when the speed is 1500
rpm.

5.3 What factors limit the maximum speeds of field-controlled dc motors?

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5.3 A 230 V, 1000 грm,105 A separately excited dc motor has an armature resistance of 0.06 Ω.
2 Calculate the value of flux as a percent of rated flux for motor speed of 1500 rpm when load is
such that the developed motor power is maintained constant at rated value for all speeds above
rated speed.

5.34 Speed of dc series motor coupled to a fan load is controlled by variation of armature voltage.
Motor takes 20 A and the fan speed is 250 rpm. The combined resistance of armature and field
is 1.0 Ω. Calculate
a) motor armature voltage for the fan speed of 350 rpm.
b) motor speed for the armature voltage of 250 V.

A 220 V, 1500 rpm, 10 A separately excited dc motor is fed from a single-phase fully-
5.36 controlled rectifier with an ac source voltage of 230 V, 50 Hz. Ra = 2 Ω. Conduction can be
assumed to be continuous. Calculate firing angle for
a) half the rated motor torque and 500 rpm.
b) rated motor torque and (-1000) rpm.

5.38 A 220 V, 1200 rpm, 15 A separately excited dc motor has armature resistance and inductance
of 1.8 Ω and 32 mH respectively. This motor is controlled by a single-phase fully-controlled
rectifier with an ac source voltage of 230 V, 50 Hz. Identify the modes and calculate developed
torque for;
a) α = 60° and speed = 450 rpm.
b) α = 60° and speed = 1500 rpm.

5.40 A 230 V, 960 rpm, 20 A separately excited dc motor has armature resistance and inductance
1.2 Ω and 50 mH respectively. Motor is controlled by single-phase half-controlled rectifier
with source voltage of 230 V, 50Hz.
a) Calculate no load speed, and speed and developed torque on the boundary between
continuous and discontinuous conduction for α = 45°,90° and 135°
b) Calculate and plot speed-torque curve for α = 45°

5.41 A 230 V, 650 rpm, 100 A separately excited dc motor has armature resistance and inductance
0.08 Ω and 8 mH respectively. Motor is controlled by single-phase half-controlled rectifier
with source voltage of 230 V, 50Hz. Identify the modes and calculate speed for
a) α = 60° and torque = 1000 N-m
b) α = 120° and torque = 1000 N-m.
5.43 A 220 V, 750 rpm, 200 A separately excited dc motor has armature and field resistance of 0.05
and 20 Ω respectively. Load torque is given expression TL = 500 – 0.2 N N-m, where N is the
speed in rpm. Speed below rated value are obtained by armature voltage control with full field
and the speed above rated are obtained by field control at rated armature voltage.
Armature is fed from a three-phase fully-controlled rectifier with ac source voltage (line) of
170 V, 50Hz and the field is fed from a half-controlled single-phase rectifier with a single-
phase source voltage of 250 V, 50 Hz. Drive operates under continuous conduction. Calculate
firing angle for speed;
a) 600 rpm
b) 1200 rpm.

5.45 A 220 V, 750 rpm, 200 A separately excited dc motor has armature resistance of 0.05 Ω.
Armature is fed from a three-phase non-circulating current dual converter consisting of fully-
controlled rectifiers A and B. rectifier A provides motoring operation in the forward direction
and rectifier B in reverse direction. Line voltage of an ac source is 400 V. calculate firing angle
of rectifier for the following assuming continuous condition.
a) Motoring operation at rated torque and 600 rpm.
b) Regenerative braking operation at rated torque and 600 rpm.

5.47 A fully-controlled rectifier-fed separately excited dc motor is required to operate in motoring

and braking operations in the forward direction. Only one fully-controlled rectifier is available.
What switching arrangement will be required? Explain.

5.48 A fully-controlled rectifier is feeding a separately excited motor driving a friction load. Motor
is operating in steady state with a rectifier firing angle of 30°. firing angle is now changed
from 30° to 60°. Explain how the motor current and speed will change with time.

5.49 Describe relative merits and demerits of four quadrant dc drive employing non-circulating
current dual converters.

5.51 A 220 V, 24 A, 100 rpm, separately excited dc motor has an armature resistance of 2Ω. Motor
is controlled by a chopper with frequency of 500 Hz and source voltage of 230 V. Calculate the
duty ratio for 1.2 times rated torque and 500 rpm.

5.52 A 230 V separately excited dc motor takes 50 A at a speed of 800 rpm. It has armature
resistance of 0.4 Ω This motor is controlled by a chopper with an input voltage of 230 V and
frequency of 500 Hz. Assuming continuous conduction throughout, calculate the plot speed-
torque characteristics for
(a) motoring operation at duty ratios of 0.3 and 0.6.
(b) regenerative braking operation at duty ratios of 0.7 and 0.4.

5.53 A 230 V, 1000 rpm, 30 A separately excited motor has armature resistance and inductance of
0.7 Ω and 50 mH respectively. Motor is controlled in regenerative braking by a chopper
operating at 800 Hz from dc source of 230 V. Assuming continuous conduction.
(i)Calculate duty ratio of chopper for rated torque and the speed of 800 rpm.
(ii) What will be the motor speed for duty ratio of 0.6 and rated motor torque?
(iii) What will be the maximum allowable speed of motor, if chopper has a maximum duty
ratio of 0.9 and maximum allowable motor current is twice the rated current?
(iv) Calculate power fed to the source for operating conditions in (iii).
(v) Motor field is also controlled along with armature voltage. Rated field current is 0.5 A.
 Calculate field current for the duty ratio of 0.9 and motor speed of 1500 rpm and armature
current of 30 A.

5.54 A 230 V, 1200 rpm, 15 A separately excited motor has an armature resistance of 1.2 Ω Motor is
operated under dynamic braking with chopper control. Braking resistance has a value of 20 Ω.
(i) Calculate duty ratio of chopper for motor speed of 1000 rpm and braking torque equal to
1.5 times rated motor torque.
(ii) What will be the motor speed for duty ratio of 0.5 and motor torque equal to its rated
torque?

5.55 A 220 V, 300 A dc series motor has combined resistance of armature and field of 0.04 2.
Running on no load as a generator with field winding connected to a separate source it gave
following magnetization characteristic at 600 rpm:
Field 50 100 150 250 300 350
current A
Terminal 66.5 124 158.5 198.5 211 221.5
voltage V

Motor is controlled by a chopper from source voltage of 220 V.

(i) Calculate motor speed for a duty ratio of 0.8 and motor current of 300 A.
(ii) Calculate torque for a speed of 500 rpm and duty ratio of 0.8.