(10BT50212) POWER ELECTRONICS AND SIMULATION LAB QUESTIONS

1. Perform an experiment to obtain V-I characteristics, holding and latching currents of SCR,
which is triggered at 20V applied across its anode to cathode terminals.
2. Perform an experiment on MOSFET to obtain transfer characteristics and also indicate the
variation of drain current as a function of drain – source voltage with gate –source voltage as
a parameter.
3. Perform an experiment on IGBT to obtain transfer and output characteristics.
4. With both Resistance and Resistance Capacitance triggering circuits, turn-on the given SCR
exactly at 300 and 1200. Obtain load and thyristor voltages for those firing angles.
5. Conduct an experiment to drive R and RL loads through a single phase symmetrical semi-
converter that provides average output voltage of 160V and 90V from a 230V, 50 Hz supply.
Determine the firing angles of the converter and plot load voltages.
6. Conduct an experiment to drive R and RL loads from a single phase two quadrant thyristor
controlled rectifier fed by 24V, 50Hz supply for the firing angles of 600 and 1200. Determine
average output voltage.
7. Perform an experiment to drive a resistance load of 100Ω through single phase ac voltage
controller operated from a single phase 18V, 50Hz supply. Set the firing angles to operate the
load at 15V and 7V rms.
8. Control the voltage across RL load (R=100Ω and L=100mH) from a single phase ac voltage
controller supplied from a single phase 18V, 50Hz supply. Show that control exists for the firing
angle greater than the phase angle.
9. a) Perform load commutation of SCR with R= L= and C= . Determine
conduction time of the thyristor.
b) Perform complementary commutation of SCR.
10. a) Perform load commutation of SCR with R= L= and C= . Determine
conduction time of the thyristor. F
b) Perform current commutation of SCR.
11. Perform an experiment to drive R and RL loads from a DC source such that load voltage is
controlled by switching of single thyristor and implements impulse commutation.
12. Conduct a suitable experiment to convert single phase ac voltage to variable voltage and
frequency by choosing proper converter.
13. Perform an experiment to control AC voltage across R and RL loads through a converter
supplied from a DC source.
14. Conduct an experiment to obtain four quadrant operation from a single phase dual converter.
15. Simulate a Buck chopper supplied by 220V DC, giving an average output voltage of 88V and
using a transistor with a chopping frequency of 20 kHz. Determine the duty-cycle required,
plot capacitor voltage and load current. The PSPICE model parameters of Transistor are IS =
6.734f, BF = 416.4, BR = 0.7371, CJC = 3.638P, CJE = 4.493P, TR = 239.5N, TF = 301.2P and that
of the diode are IS = 2.2E-15, BV = 1800V, TT = 0.
Consider RL load (3Ω, 40.91µH) with LC filter (681.82µH, 8.33µF) and transistor trigger circuit
resistance 250Ω.
16. Simulate a single phase full converter, with supply voltage 230V 50Hz, driving RLE load (10Ω,
20mH, 10V) with a capacitive filter of 793µF in series with a 0.1Ω resistor. Consider firing angle
of π/3 and π/2 radians. Plot source voltage, load voltage, load current and source current.
Sub-circuit for thyristor SPICE AC model: RG=50Ω, CT=10µF, RT=1Ω, Switch parameters:
RON=0.01Ω, ROFF=10E+5, VON=0.1V, VOFF=0V.
17. Simulate resonant pulse commutation circuit for the SCR.