EE2403 Special Electrical Machines - SUBJECT CATALOG

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SYLLABUS:

EE 2403          SPECIAL ELECTRICAL MACHINES                                                         L T P C

3 0 0 3

AIM

To  expose the students to the construction, principle  of operation  and performance  of  special electrical machines as an extension to the study of basic electrical machines.

OBJECTIVES

To impart knowledge on

i.          Construction, principle of operation and performance of synchronous reluctance   motors.

ii.          Construction, principle of operation, control and performance of stepping motors.

iii.  Construction, principle of operation, control and performance of switched reluctance motors.

iv.  Construction, principle of operation, control and performance of permanent magnet brushless

D.C. motors.

v.   Construction, principle of operation and performance of permanent magnet synchronous motors.

UNIT I SYNCHRONOUS RELUCTANCE MOTORS        9

Constructional features – Types – Axial and Radial flux motors – Operating principles – Variable

Reluctance and Hybrid Motors – SYNREL Motors – Voltage and Torque Equations - Phasor diagram

- Characteristics.

UNIT II            STEPPING MOTORS           9

Constructional features – Principle of operation – Variable reluctance motor – Hybrid motor – Single and multi stack configurations – Torque equations – Modes of excitations – Characteristics – Drive circuits – Microprocessor control of stepping motors – Closed loop control.

UNIT III           SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTORS      9

Constructional features – Rotary and Linear SRMs - Principle of operation – Torque production – Steady state performance prediction- Analytical method -Power Converters and their controllers – Methods  of  Rotor  position  sensing  –  Sensorless  operation  –  Closed  loop  control  of  SRM          - Characteristics.

UNIT IV           PERMANENT MAGNET BRUSHLESS D.C. MOTORS   9

Permanent Magnet materials – Magnetic Characteristics – Permeance coefficient -Principle of operation – Types – Magnetic circuit analysis – EMF and torque equations –Commutation - Power controllers – Motor characteristics and control.

UNIT V            PERMANENT MAGNET SYNCHRONOUS MOTORS     9

Principle of operation – Ideal PMSM – EMF and Torque equations – Armature reaction MMF – Synchronous   Reactance   –   Sinewave   motor   with   practical   windings   -   Phasor   diagram  – Torque/speed characteristics - Power controllers - Converter Volt-ampere requirements.

TOTAL : 45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS:

1.  T.J.E. Miller, ‘Brushless Permanent Magnet and Reluctance Motor Drives’, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989.

2.  T. Kenjo, ‘Stepping Motors and Their Microprocessor Controls’, Clarendon Press London, 1984.

REFERENCES:

1. R.Krishnan, ‘Switched Reluctance Motor Drives – Modeling, Simulation, Analysis, Design and

Application’, CRC Press, New York, 2001.

2. P.P. Aearnley, ‘Stepping Motors – A Guide to Motor Theory and Practice’, Peter Perengrinus

London, 1982.

3. T. Kenjo and S. Nagamori, ‘Permanent Magnet and Brushless DC Motors’, Clarendon Press, London, 1988.