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MtE-328L Power electronics LAB, 6th Semester

Student Name: Mian Sayaf Ali Shah

Registration Number: 18PWMCT0612
Lab No. 4: Analysis of half wave uncontrolled rectifier with and
without filter

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 DEPARTMENT OF MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, PESHAWAR
MtE-328L Power electronics LAB, 6th Semester

Power Electronics Lab

Lab Report No. 04

Date: 9/5/2021

Submitted by: Mian Sayaf Ali Shah

(18PWMCT0612)
Submitted to: Engr. Wahad Ur Rehman
Section: A
DEPARTMENT OF MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING
University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan

Course Instructor: Engr. Wahad Ur Rahman

 DEPARTMENT OF MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, PESHAWAR
MtE-328L Power electronics LAB, 6th Semester

Lab No. : 4
Title: Analysis of half wave uncontrolled rectifier with and
without filter
Objectives:
 To become familiar with the MATLAB and Simulink environments
 To study the working principal and operation mechanism of half wave rectifier
 To observe the input and output waveform of half wave rectifier with and without filter
 To calculate the ripple factor at different load resistance
 To calculate the ripple factor at different capacitor value

Equipments and Tools:

 MATLAB Simulink.

Theory:
Rectifier:
A rectifier is an electrical device that converts alternating current (AC), which
periodically reverses direction, to direct current (DC), which flows in only one
direction. There are two types of rectifier.
 Half wave Rectifier.
 Full Wave Rectifier.

Half wave Rectifier:

Half wave rectifier converts only half of the cycle. It leaves the negative cycle. The
power diode in a half wave rectifier circuit passes just one half of each complete sine
wave of the AC supply in order to convert it into a DC supply. During each “positive”
half cycle of the AC sine wave, the diode is forward biased as the anode is positive with
respect to the cathode resulting in current flowing through the diode. During each
“negative” half cycle of the AC sinusoidal input waveform, the diode is reverse biased
as the anode is negative with respect to the cathode. Therefore, NO current flows
through the diode or circuit. [1]

Figure 4:1: Half wave Rectifier

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Full wave Rectifier:

In a Full Wave Rectifier circuit two diodes are now used, one for each half of the
cycle. Full wave rectifiers have some fundamental advantages over their half wave
rectifier counterparts. The average (DC) output voltage is higher than for half wave,
the output of the full wave rectifier has much less ripple than that of the half wave
rectifier producing a smoother output waveform. [1]

Figure 4:2: Full wave Rectifier

Uncontrolled and Controlled Rectifier:

 The rectifier circuit using diodes only are called Uncontrolled rectifier circuit.
 When SCRs (thyristor) are used to convert AC to DC, they have a controlled
output voltage so it is called a Controlled rectifier output
 Control mean when to start rectification and when to stop

Ripple Factor:
 The percentage of ac component present in the rectified voltage. waveform. Even
though we try out best to remove all AC components, there is still some small
amount left on the output side which pulsates the DC waveform.This undesirable
AC component is called ‘ripple’.
 To quantify how well the half wave rectifier can convert the AC voltage into DC
voltage, we use what is known as the ripple factor (represented by γ or r).
 The ripple factor is the ratio between the RMS value of the AC voltage (on the
output side) and the DC voltage (on the output side) of the rectifier.
𝑉 2
 For without capacitor (not filtered) 𝛾 = √( 𝑉𝑟𝑚𝑠 ) − 1
𝐷𝐶

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 With capacitor, 𝑟 = 1/2√3𝐹𝑅𝐶

Post-Lab Tasks:
Procedure:
 Insert the components from library browser in Simulink.
 The components are AC Power supply, Resistor, capacitor, Diode, voltmeter, and
scope.
 Connect them to complete the circuit.
 Change their values from the component properties.
 Run the simulation.

Circuit Diagram:

Figure 4:3: Half wave uncontrolled Rectifier

Figure 4:4: Half wave uncontrolled rectifier with filter

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Results:
Table 4:1: Half wave rectifier ripple factor without capacitor

S.No Load Input voltage RMS AC Average Dc Ripple

resistance (RL) (V-peak) voltage (Vac) voltage (Vdc) factor
1 1k 220 V 2.136 x 102 1.35 x 102 1.2113
2 2k 220 V 1.960 x 102 1.24 x 102 1.2113
3 5k 220 V 2.149 x 102 1.36 x 102 1.2113
4 10k 220 V 2.158 x 102 1.37 x 102 1.2113
5 20k 220 V 2.165 x 102 1.38 x 102 1.2113
6 30k 220 V 2.187 x 102 1.39 x 102 1.2113
7 50k 220 V 2.279 x 102 1.45 x 102 1.2114
Table 4:2: half wave rectifier ripple factor with capacitor

S.No Capacitor Load resistance Frequency (F) Ripple factor

1 500 µF 1k 60 Hz 0.00962
2 5k 60 Hz 0.00192
3 10k 60 Hz 0.000962
4 1000 µF 1k 60 Hz 0.00481
5 5k 60 Hz 0.000962
6 10k 60 Hz 0.000481
7 5000 µF 1k 60 Hz 0.000962
8 5k 60 Hz 0.0001924
9 10k 60 Hz 0.000481
Graphs:

Figure 4:5: Half wave uncontrolled rectifier

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figure 4:6: Half wave uncontrolled and filtered rectifier

Discussion:
We become familiar with environment of Simulink. We study the mechanism of half
wave uncontrolled rectifier. We calculated ripple factor at different load and capacitor
values. We designed the half wave uncontrolled rectifier with filter and without filter.
Diode is uncontrolled device so this rectifier is called uncontrolled rectifier. From the
results of figure 4:5 and figure 4:6: we seeing clear difference in output of with filter
and without filter. In figure 4:5, the negative cycle of AC input power supply is
completely removed while in figure 4:6, the output signal is filtered and removes the
AC part as much as possible.

References

[1] [Online]. Available: https://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/diode/diode_5.html.

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