Key Details of Electrical Drives

  • Electrical drives are integral part of industrial and automation processes, particularly where precise control of speed of the motor is the prime.
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Electrical drives are integral part of industrial and automation processes, particularly where precise control of speed of the motor is the prime.

Electrical drives are integral part of industrial and automation processes, particularly where precise control of speed of the motor is the prime requirement. In addition, all modern electric trains or locomotive systems have been powered by electrical drives. Robotics is another major area where adjustable speed drives offer precise speed and position control.

A drive operates and controls the speed, torque and direction of moving objects. Drives are generally employed for speed or motion control applications such as machine tools, transportation, robots, fans, etc. The drives used for controlling electric motors are known as electrical drives.

The drives can be of constant or variable type. The constant speed drives are inefficient for variable speed operations; in such cases variable speed drives are used to operate the loads at any one of a wide range of speeds.

The adjustable speed drives are necessary for precise and continuous control of speed, position, or torque of different loads. Along with this major function, there are many reasons to use adjustable speed drives. Some of these include

To achieve high efficiency: Electrical drives enable to use wide range of power, from milliwatts to megawatts for various speeds and hence the overall cost of operating the system is reduced

To increase the speed of accuracy of stopping or reversing operations of motor

To control the starting current

To provide the protection

To establish advanced control with variation of parameters like temperature, pressure, level, etc.

Topics Covered in this App are Listed Below

DC Motor or Direct Current Motor

Working Principle of Three Phase Induction Motor

Synchronous Motor Working Principle

Electric Motor Power Rating

Motor Duty Class and its Classification

Induction Motor Braking Regenerative Plugging Dynamic Braking of Induction Motor

Induction Motor Drives | Starting Braking Speed Control of Induction Motor

DC Motor Drives

Dynamics of Electrical Drives

Interfacing of Stepper Motor

Control of Electrical Drives

Synchronous Motor Drives

Hysteresis Motor

Stepper Motor Drive

Bipolar Stepper Motor

What is Braking? Types of Braking | Regenerative Plugging Dynamic Braking

Types of Braking in a DC Motor

What is Servo Motor?

Servomechanism | Theory and Working Principle of Servo Motor

Servo Motor Control

DC Servo Motors | Theory of DC Servo Motor

Servo Motor Controller or Servo Motor Driver

Servo Motor Applications in Robotics Solar Tracking System etc

Variable Frequency Drive or VFD

Electric Motors

Magnetic Circuits

The air-gap

Torque Production

Specific Loadings And Specific Output

Energy Conversion Motional Emf

Equivalent Circuit

General Properties Of Electric Motors

Power Electronic Converters For Motor Drives

Voltage Control D.C. Output From D.C. Supply

Chopper with inductive load overvoltage protection

D.C. From A.C. Controlled Rectification

3-phase fully controlled converter

A.C. From D.C. SP SP Inversion

Sinusoidal PWM

Inverter Switching Devices

Cooling Of Power Switching Devices

Conventional D.C. Motors

Transient Behaviour Current Surges

Shunt, Series And Compound Motors

Shunt motor steady-state operating characteristics

Four-Quadrant Operation And Regenerative Braking

Full speed regenerative reversal

Toy Motors

D.C. Motor Drives

Discontinuous current

Single-converter reversing drives

Control Arrangements For D.C. Drives

Chopper-Fed D.C. Motor Drives

D.C. Servo Drives

The Real Transformer

Inverter-Fed Induction Motor Drives



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