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Department of Electrical Engineering
TECC3791 Power Electronics
Tutorial 4
(03 March 2022)

A. Uncontrolled Rectifiers
1. What are the three (3) advantages and disadvantages of diode rectifiers?

B. Single Phase Uncontrolled Rectifiers

2. What is the effect of the source inductance (𝐿𝑠 ) on the output waveforms of bridge
single phase inverter?

3. Given the circuit below, supplied by a pure sinusoidal source with 𝐿𝑠 = 0 and a
constant current 𝐼𝑑 .
a) Draw the waveforms of 𝑣𝑠 , 𝐼𝑑 and 𝑖𝑠 .
b) Obtain the average and RMS values of the current through each diode as a
ratio of 𝐼𝑑 .

Figure 1: Question 3

4. In the rectifier shown below, 𝑉𝑠 = 120 V at 60 Hz, 𝐿𝑠 = 1 mH, and 𝐼𝑑 = 10 A.

Calculate the commutation interval, 𝑢, 𝑉𝑑 , 𝑃𝑑 . What is the percentage voltage drop in
𝑉𝑑 due to 𝐿𝑠 ?

Figure 2: Question 4 and 5

5. In the single-phase rectifier shown in Figure 2, with 𝐿𝑠 = 0, calculate THD, DPF, and
PF.

C. Three-Phase Uncontrolled Rectifiers

6. For how long (radians) does each diode conduct in an uncontrolled three-phase
rectifier?
7. A simplified three-phase rectifier is shown in Figure 3, obtain the average and rms
values of the current through each diode as a ratio of dc-side current 𝐼𝑑 . Show your
work.

Figure 3: Question 7

8. Show that the effect of 𝐿𝑠 in a three-phase uncontrolled rectifier results in the drop in
𝜋
average output voltage of ∆𝑉𝑑 = 3 𝜔𝐿𝑠 𝐼𝑑 .