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EX-504 (A) · Industrial Electronics/Official Syllabus

Industrial Electronics (EX-504 (A)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Power supply, rectifiers and regulators

  • Power supply, rectifiers (half wave, full wave), performance parameters of power supplies
  • filters (capacitor,inductor, inductor-capacitor, pi filter), bleeder resistor, voltage multipliers
  • Regulated power supplies (series and shunt voltage regulators, fixed and adjustable voltage regulators,current regulator)
  • switched regulator (SMPS), comparison of linear and switched power supply
  • switchmode converter (flyback, buck, boost, buk-boost, cuk converters)
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Unit 2

Silicon controlled rectifiers (SCR) and Converters

  • Silicon controlled rectifies (SCR), constructional features, principle of operation, SCR terminology
  • turn-onmethods, turn-off methods, triggering methods of SCR circuits
  • types of commutation
  • comparison ofthyristors and transistors
  • thermal characteristics of SCR, causes of damage to SCR, SCR overvoltageprotection circuit
  • Line commutated converters (half wave rectifier withinductive and resistive load, single phase and three phase full wave rectifiers)
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Unit 3

Other members of SCR family

  • Triacs, Diacs, Quadracs, recovery characteristics
  • fast recovery diodes, power diodes, power transistor,power MOSFET, Insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)
  • loss of power in semiconductor devices,comparison between power MOSFET, power transistor and power IGBT
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Unit 4

Applications of OP-AMP

  • Basics of OP-AMP, relaxation oscillator, window comparator
  • Op-comp as rectangular to triangular pulseconverter and vice- versa
  • Wien bridge oscillator, function generator
  • frequency response of OP-AMP,simplified circuit diagram of OP-AMP
  • power supplies using OP-AMP, filters (low-pass, high pass) using OP-AMP
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Unit 5

Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)

  • Functions, applications, advantages and disadvantages of PLC over conventional relay controllers
  • comparison of PLC with process control computer system, factors to be considered in selecting PLC
  • functional block diagram of PLC, microprocessor in PLC, memory, input and output modules (interfacecards)
  • sequence of operations in a PLC, status of PLC, event driven device
  • ladder logic language, simpleprocess control applications of PLC, Programming examples

Reference Books

  • Industrial Electronics and control — Bishwanath Paul — PHI Learning
  • Power Electronics- Circuits, devices and applications — Rashid — Pearson Education
  • Power Electronics — Singh, Khanchandani — TMH
  • Power Electronics — Bhimbra — Khanna Publishers
  • Power Electronics — Moorthi — Oxford University Press
  • Programmable Logic Controllers- Principles and Applications — Webb — PHI Learning
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