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EX-802 (B) · Special Machine/Official Syllabus

Special Machine (EX-802 (B)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Stepper Motors

  • Discretisation of angular position by stepper structures
  • stepping angle and frequency of excitation
  • VR and PM rotor structures and their torque production
  • torque angle characteristics
  • The hybrid structure and torque production by permanent magnet and excitation fluxes
  • Power electronic converters for stepper motors
  • control by load angle
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Unit 2

Switched reluctance motor

  • static torque production
  • partition of energy and the effects of saturation
  • Dynamic torque production
  • torque speed characteristics
  • shaft position sensing
  • solid rotors
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Unit 3

BrushLess DC Motor

  • BrushLess DC Motor construction and principle
  • speed control
  • basic concept of torque
  • outer and inner rotor
  • magnetic circuit concept
  • electrical analogy
  • winding pattern series and parallel
  • Thermal consideration
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Unit 4

Permanent magnet materials and circuits

  • Permanent magnet materials and circuits
  • Characteristics, parameters, properties
  • classification and calculations
  • Permanent magnet motors, D.C. brushed motors
  • design analysis and control and applications
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Unit 5

PM synchronous motors

  • rotor construction
  • theory, operation
  • control and applications
  • PM step motors, hybrid step motors
  • sensorless control
  • reduction of torque pulsations
  • Case studies such electric vehicles, industrial drives, PV fed water pumping

Reference Books

  • Brushless Permanent Magnet & Reluctance Motor Drives — T. J. E. Miller
  • Principles of Electric Machines & Power Electronics — P. C. Sen
  • Electric Drives — G. K. Dubey
  • Permanent magnet synchronous & brushless DC motor drives — R. Krishnan
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