PCEE701

TECHNO INTERNATIONAL NEWTOWN
Newtown, Kolkata
Department of Electrical Engineering
Electric Drive (PCEE-701)
Question Bank for CA-3
7th Semester, 2022
1. Which of the following exhibits linearly rising load torque characteristics?

a) Rolling Mills
b) Fan load
c) Separately excited dc generator connected to the resistive load
d) Elevators
2. Type-A chopper is used for obtaining which type of mode?

a) Reverse motoring mode
b) Motoring mode
c) Reverse regenerative braking mode
d) Regenerative braking mode
3. Which of the following devices should be used as a switch for high power and high
voltage application?
a) TRIAC
b) Thyristor
c) GTO
d) MOSFET
4. Which of the following device is NOT suitable for parallel operation?

a) BJT
b) MOSFET
c) TRIAC
d) IGBT
5. Which one of the following methods would give a lower than the actual value of
regulation of the alternator?
a) EMF method
b) ASA method
c) ZPF method
d) MMF method
6. Which braking method is the best method for obtaining high braking torque?
a) Plugging
b) Regenerative braking
c) Rheostatic braking
d) Dynamic braking
7. When 30 A current flows into the positive terminal of current source 8 V. calculate
the power delivered by the source.
a) -240 W
b) 356 W
c) -234 W
d) 243 W
8. Which of the following type of motor is used for milling and grinding operations?
a) Split phase
b) SCIM
c) Reluctance motor
d) WRIM
9. Which of the following is used to protect SCR from thermal conditions?

a) Voltage clamping device
b) Snubber circuit
c) Heat sink
d) Zener diode
10. Which one of the following device is uncontrolled?

a) MOSFET
b) Diode
c) TRIAC
d) SCR
11. The field control method is suitable for constant torque drives..
a. Constant torque drives
b. Constant power drives
c. Constant torque & power drive
d. depends on load
12. In DC chopper, the waveform for input and output voltages is respectively
a. Continuous and Discontinuous
b. Discontinuous and Continuous
c. Both continuous
d. Both discontinuous
13. A chopper behaves as a?

a. DC equivalent of AC switching device
b. DC equivalent of AC transformer
c. DC equivalent of AC relay
d. AC equivalent of circuit breaker
14. A DC chopper feeds an RLE load. If the value of E is increased by 20%, the current
ripple.
a. Increases by 20%
b. Decreases by 20%
c. Remains the same
d. Depends on R of the load
15. In case of armature controlled separately excited dc motor drive with closed loop
control, an inner current loop is useful because it
a. Limits speed of motor to a safe level
b. Helps in improving drive energy efficiency
c. Limits peak current of motor to a permissible value
d. Reduces steady state speed error.
16. Ward Leonard drive is used when the supply is

a. AC
b. DC
c. Both AC and DC
d. does not depend on supply.
17. Conveyors, compressors are examples of

a. Continuous duty
b. both of them
c. Short time duty
d. none of them.
1. Explain the generalized concept of electric drive using block diagram. [5]
2. Explain the speed control techniques of DC shunt motor. [5]
3. Explain regenerative breaking technique of DC shunt motor.[5]
4. Explain the close loop speed control of chopper fed DC motor drive. [5]
5. Explain the close loop torque control of chopper fed DC motor drive. [5]
6. Describe the operation of four quadrant operation of DC motor drive[5]
7. Explain the open loop speed control of a phase control rectifier fed DC motor drive. [5]
8. Discuss the major advantages of PM Synchronous motor drive over 3Ø induction motor
drive. [5]
9. Show that a variable frequency induction motor drive develops at all frequencies the same
torque for a given slip-speed when operating at constant flux [5]
10. Describe the operation of BLDC motor drive [5]
11. Explain the main factors which decide the choice of electric drive for a given application.
[5]
12. A 120-V, 2400-rpm shunt motor has an armature resistance of 0.4 R and a shunt field
resistance of 160 0. The motor operates at its rated speed at full load and takes 14.75 A.
The no-load current is 2 A. When an external resistance of 3.6 R is inserted in the armature
circuit with no change in the torque developed, calculate the motor speed, the power loss
in the external resistance, and the efficiency of the motor. Assume that the rotational loss
is proportional to the speed. [5] [Ans: 1343rpm, 705w, 46.1%]
13. A separately excited d.c. motor is driven from a 240V, 50Hz supply using a fully controlled
thyristor bridge. The motor has an armature resistance R a of 1.0ohm, and an armature
voltage constant (kv) of 0.8 V/rad-s. The field current is constant at its rated value. Assume
that the armature current is steady. Determine the values of armature current and torque
for an armature speed of 1600 rpm and a firing-angle delay of 30° [5][ Ans: 53A, 42.2Nm]
14. A chopper is used to control the speed of a 200V, 5Kw, 2000rpm DC motor. The controller
analog i/o logic label is 5V and chopper i/p DC voltage 400V. What will be the duty cycle
of the chopper and POT o/p voltage(used to generate reference i/p for controller) for a
reference speed of 1000 rpm[5][ Ans: 0.25, 2.5V]

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TECHNO INTERNATIONAL NEWTOWN

7th Semester, 2022

1. Which of the following exhibits linearly rising load torque characteristics?

2. Type-A chopper is used for obtaining which type of mode?

4. Which of the following device is NOT suitable for parallel operation?

9. Which of the following is used to protect SCR from thermal conditions?

10. Which one of the following device is uncontrolled?

13. A chopper behaves as a?

16. Ward Leonard drive is used when the supply is

17. Conveyors, compressors are examples of

2. Explain the speed control techniques of DC shunt motor. [5]

3. Explain regenerative breaking technique of DC shunt motor.[5]

6. Describe the operation of four quadrant operation of DC motor drive[5]

torque for a given slip-speed when operating at constant flux [5]

10. Describe the operation of BLDC motor drive [5]

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