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Simple and Accurate Formula For Calculating The Conduction Angle of Single Phase Rectifier
Simple and Accurate Formula For Calculating The Conduction Angle of Single Phase Rectifier
Simple and Accurate Formula For Calculating The Conduction Angle of Single Phase Rectifier
Abstract
This paper presents simple and accurate formula for calculating a conduction angle of single-phase half-wave or
full-wave rectifiers with RL load. The formula can also be used in case of a.c. voltage regulators under
discontinuous current conduction mode. This study also compares the results with that obtained by the exact
solution method. This method reduces the computational time in both the computer-aided design and manual
classroom analysis.
Introduction Vm
Load Voltage
io
and is equal to ( R 2 + ( l ) 2 ), be a load
1 l
R ),
angle (tan is a firing angle, and Vm is a
1
excitation angle (). This also can be seen in Figure
2. Nevertheless, in order to calculate the Where, range of change of for different load
performance parameters of the circuits, i.e., output resistance is given in Table 1.
rms value, average output power, etc, it is necessary
to know the value of the extinction angle (). Table 1
Accordingly, ()can be found from the solution of in degree
Load resistance (R)
equation (2) when io (t ) = 0 at t = ; From To
5 10 > l
R 10 15 l
( )
l 15 20 < l
sin( ) sin( )e =0 (3)
Formula Development
=90 o
= 2 ( ) (6)
=0 o
= (7)
= + (8)
2
Conduction
Angle,o 250
Conclusions
200
References
Figure 4: Comparison Between Methods for =45
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200 Exact solution [4] M. H. Rashid, Power Electronics, Prentice Hall,
New Jersey, 1993.
150
[5] W. Shephered, and L. N. Hulley, Power
Electronics and Motor Control, Cambridge
Developed
University Press, Cambridge, UK, 1982.
100
solution
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of MATLAB, The Math Works, London, 1995.
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0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
Firing Angle, Alpha (In Degrees)
Conduction
Angle o 300
250
Exact solution
200
150
Developed
solution
100
50
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0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180
Firing Angle, Alpha (In Degrees)