Electric Traction Services

Electric Traction Services: Electric Traction Services can be broadly classified as: Electric Trains. Electric buses, trams (or tramways) and trolleys. Battery driven and solar powered vehicles. Electric Trains: Electric trains…

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Eddy Current Drives

Eddy Current Drives: Eddy Current Drives consists of an eddy current clutch placed between an induction motor running at a fixed speed and the variable speed load. Speed is controlled…

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Current Regulated Voltage Source Inverter

Current Regulated Voltage Source Inverter: Current Regulated Voltage Source Inverter operates with current controlled PWM. In current controlled pulse-width modulation, machine phase current is made to follow a sinusoidal reference…

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Four Quadrant Drive With Field Reversal

Four Quadrant Drive With Field Reversal: Four Quadrant Drive With Field Reversal as shown in Fig. 5.36, armature is fed from a fully-controlled rectifier and the field from a dual…

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Control of Electrical Drives Articles

Control of Electrical Drives Articles: Closed Loop Speed Control of Multi Motor Drives : When mechanical part of the load is of large physical dimension it becomes desirable to share…

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Phase Locked Loop Control

Phase Locked Loop Control(PLL): A PI controller ideally should provide perfect speed regulation. However, due to imperfections in sensing and control circuits, the closed-loop schemes described earlier can at best…

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Current Limit Control of Drives

Current Limit Control of Drives: Current Limit Control of Drives scheme of Fig. 3.3 is employed to limit the converter and motor current below a safe limit during transient operations.…

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