Electrical Drives notes: DC motors, VFD, servo, induction & power electronics
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Electrical Drives is a free engineering handbook with important topics, detailed notes and course study material on electric motors, motor drives, speed control and power electronics. Download this digital book and reference guide for Diploma, BE, BTech and other engineering degree courses.
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**ALL 54 TOPICS COVERED**
**ELECTRICAL DRIVE SYSTEMS**
1. DC Motor Drives
2. Dynamics of Electrical Drives
3. Interfacing of Stepper Motor
4. Control of Electrical Drives
5. Synchronous Motor Drives
6. Hysteresis Motor
7. Stepper Motor Drive
8. Bipolar Stepper Motor
9. Motor Duty Class and its Classification
10. Induction Motor Braking: Regenerative, Plugging & Dynamic Braking of Induction Motor
11. Induction Motor Drives: Starting, Braking & Speed Control of Induction Motor
12. DC Servo Motors: Theory of DC Servo Motor
13. Servo Motor Controller or Servo Motor Driver
14. Servo Motor Applications in Robotics, Solar Tracking System, etc.
15. Variable Frequency Drive or VFD
**MOTORS, BRAKING & FUNDAMENTALS**
16. Electric Motors
17. Magnetic Circuits
18. The Air-Gap
19. Torque Production
20. What is Braking & Types of Braking: Regenerative, Plugging, Dynamic Braking
21. Types of Braking in a DC Motor
22. What is Servo Motor
23. Servomechanism: Theory and Working Principle of Servo Motor
24. Servo Motor Control
25. DC Motor or Direct Current Motor
26. Working Principle of Three Phase Induction Motor
27. Synchronous Motor Working Principle
28. Electric Motor Power Rating
29. Specific Loadings and Specific Output
**DC MOTORS & DRIVE OPERATION**
30. Energy Conversion – Motional EMF
31. Equivalent Circuit
32. Transient Behaviour – Current Surges
33. Shunt, Series and Compound Motors
34. Shunt Motor – Steady-State Operating Characteristics
35. Four-Quadrant Operation and Regenerative Braking
36. Full Speed Regenerative Reversal
37. Toy Motors
38. Discontinuous Current
39. Single-Converter Reversing Drives
40. Control Arrangements for D.C. Drives
41. Chopper-Fed D.C. Motor Drives
42. D.C. Servo Drives
43. The Real Transformer
44. General Properties of Electric Motors
**POWER ELECTRONICS & CONVERTERS**
45. Power Electronic Converters for Motor Drives
46. Voltage Control – D.C. Output from D.C. Supply
47. Chopper with Inductive Load – Overvoltage Protection
48. D.C. from A.C. – Controlled Rectification
49. 3-Phase Fully Controlled Converter
50. A.C. from D.C. SP – SP Inversion
51. Sinusoidal PWM
52. Inverter Switching Devices
53. Cooling of Power Switching Devices
54. Conventional D.C. Motors
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**WHO IS IT FOR?**
Diploma and degree students, BE/BTech learners, engineering teachers and professionals studying electric motor drives, machine control, servo drives, induction motors and power electronic converters.
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