Scribd
Upload
40 views2 pages

PEC Tutorial 3

The document is a tutorial containing various problems related to choppers and their operation in electrical circuits. It includes calculations for duty cycles, average load voltages, ripple factors, and current values for different configurations of choppers. Additionally, it covers step-up and step-down choppers, as well as the effects of various parameters on load performance.

Uploaded by

tolsanjay
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
40 views2 pages

PEC Tutorial 3

The document is a tutorial containing various problems related to choppers and their operation in electrical circuits. It includes calculations for duty cycles, average load voltages, ripple factors, and current values for different configurations of choppers. Additionally, it covers step-up and step-down choppers, as well as the effects of various parameters on load performance.

Uploaded by

tolsanjay
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as DOCX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Tutorial 3

1. A 120 V battery supplies RL load through a chopper. A freewheeling diode is connected across RL
load having R = 5Ω and L = 60 mH. Load current varies between 7 A and 9 A. Calculate time ratio
T on /T off for this chopper.
2. A step-up chopper has output voltage of two to four times the input voltage. For a chopping frequency
of 2000 Hz, determine the range of off-periods for the gate signal.
3. A step-up chopper with a pulse width of 100 µs is operating from 230 V dc supply. Compute the
average value of load voltage for a chopping frequency of 2000 Hz.
4. A dc battery is to be charged from a constant dc source of 220 V. The dc battery is to be charged from
its internal emf of 90 V to 122 V. The battery has internal resistance of 1Ω. For a constant charging
current of 10 A, compute the range of duty cycle.
5. Draw the power circuit diagram for a type-A chopper. Show load voltage waveform for (i) α = 0.3 and
(ii) α = 0.8. For both these duty cycles, calculate:
a. the average and rms value of output voltage in terms of source voltage VS,
b. the output power in case of resistive load R and
c. the ripple factors.
6. A chopper has the following data: T = 1000 µs, R = 2Ω, L = 5 mH
Find the duty cycle α so that per unit value of minimum load current does not fall below (i) 0.1 and
(ii) 0.3 of VS/R.
7. (a) A chopper, fed from a 220 V dc source, is working at a frequency of 50 Hz and is connected to an
R-L load of R = 5Ω, L = 40 mH. Determine the value of duty cycle at which the minimum load
current will be (i) 5 A, (ii) 10 A, (iii) 20 A and (iv) 30 A.
(b) For the values of α obtained in (a), calculate the corresponding values of maximum currents and
ripple factors.
8. (a) A dc chopper feeds power to an RLE load with R = 2Ω, L = 10 mH and E = 6 V. If this chopper is
operating at a chopping frequency of 1 kHz and duty cycle of 10% from a 220 V dc source, compute
the maximum and minimum currents taken by the load.
(b) A dc chopper is used to control the speed of a separately excited dc motor. The dc supply voltage
is 220 V, armature resistance Ra = 0.2Ω and motor constant Kaφ = 0.08 V/rpm. The motor drives a
constant torque load requiring an average armature current of 25 A. Determine (i) the range of speed
control and (ii) the range of duty cycle. Assume the motor current to be continuous.
9. A step-down chopper is fed from 230 V dc and its duty cycle is 0.5. Calculate rms value of output
voltage for fundamental, second and third harmonic components. Hence, express the output voltage as
a function of Fourier series.
10. A battery with its terminal voltage of 200 V is supplied with power from type-A chopper circuit. The
output voltage of the chopper consists of rectangular pulses of 2 ms duration in an overall cycle time
of 5 ms. Internal resistance of the battery is negligible. Calculate:
(a) ripple factor.
(b) average and rms values of output voltage
(c) rms value of the fundamental component of output voltage
(d) ac ripple voltage.
11. A type-A chopper feeds power to RLE load with R = 1.5Ω, L = 6 mH and E = 44 V. Other data for
the chopper is as under: Source voltage = 220 V dc, chopping frequency = 1 kHz, output voltage pulse
duration = 400 µs.
(a) Find whether load current is continuous or not.
(b) Calculate the value of average output current.
(c) Compute the maximum and minimum values of steady state output current.
(d) Sketch the time variations of gate signal i g , load voltage v 0, load currenti 0, thyristor currenti T ,
freewheeling diode current i fd and voltage across thyristor v T .
(e) Find rms values of first, second and third harmonics of the load current.
(f) Compute average value of supply current.
(g) Compute input power, the power absorbed by the load counter emf and the power loss in the
resistor.\
(h) Compute rms value of load current using the results of (b) and (g).
(i) Using results of (e), find the rms value of load current. Compare the result with that obtained in
part (h).
12. A voltage-commutated chopper delivers power to RLE load for R = 0 and L = 8 mH. For a chopping
frequency of 200 Hz and dc source voltage of 400 V, find the chopper duty cycle so as to limit the
load current excursion to 40 A.
13. A current commutated chopper has following data:
Source voltage = 220 V dc; peak commutating current = 1.8 times the load current; main SCR t q = 20
µs; factor of safety = 2; load current = 180 A.
Determine the values of the commutating inductor and capacitor, maximum capacitor voltage and the
peak commutating current.

You might also like