THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY LEVEL 5

ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014
ASSIGNMENT # 01
MEX5270 POWER ELECTRONICS AND MOTOR DRIVES

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer all questions.
2. Send your answer scripts under registered cover to the address given below or put it into the
assignment box available at the Research Laboratory (New Science and Technology Building)
of Mechanical Engineering Department or upload the assignment to the OUSL virtual
classroom in PDF format on or before 17
th
January 2014.

THE COURSE COORDINATOR MEX5270
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY OF SRI LANKA.
P.O.BOX 21, NAWALA, NUGEGODA.

3. There will be penalty imposed of five marks deduction for each days delay up to a maximum
of 10 days, after which a mark of zero will be given.
4. Copying among students is not allowed and if found a zero mark will be given.
5. Direct copying from web resources or Books is strictly prohibited.
6. You may use Harvard Referencing or any other standard method for referencing.
7. If you are submitting the assignment using the virtual classroom, first click the Assignment
module and select the appropriate assignment in the given item list. Then answer the particular
assignment through the virtual class. If you do not follow the instructions, then your
submission can be seen by anyone in the MEX5270 class.

Please note the following:-
Indicate all the steps of solving a problem clearly in your own words.

Question 1
A transistor junction has a total power loss of 26W, and the junction to case thermal resistance
is 0.9
0
C/W. The case is mounted on heat sink no. 7 with a 75m thick mica insulation with
thermal grease resulting in the case to heat sink thermal resistance of 0. 4
0
C/W. The air
temperature inside the converter cabinet can be as high as 55
0
C. Determine the maximum
junction temperature in this device.

Question 2
The turn ON and the turn OFF switching transition times for the power semiconductor switch S
in Figure Q2 are respectively t
sw(on)
and t
sw(on).
Assume linear variation of current and voltage
during the switching transitions. The ON state voltage drop across the switch is V
D
. Show that
the average switching power loss across the switch is

( )
S off SW on SW
D
SW
f t t
I V VI
P
) ( ) (
3 6
+
|
.
|

\
|
+ =
Where V is the off state voltage across the switch, I is the ON state current through the
switch and
S
f is the switching frequency.






Figure Q2

Question 3

The convertor and snubber circuit shown in Figure Q3 has V
s
= 50V and I
L
= 5A, C=0.05F, R
=5O and t
f
= 0.5s. The switching frequency is 120kHz with a duty ratio of 0.4.

1) Determine expressions for i
Q
, i
c
and v
c
during turn off.
2) Determine the transistor turn off losses in the switch and the snubber.

















Figure Q3
Question 4
a. Consider the single phase controlled half wave bridge rectifier shown in Figure Q4.
The firing delay angle is 45
0
. Draw the waveforms of the half wave bridge rectifier for
the following clearly labeling the graphs.
1) Supply voltage ( v
s
)
2) Output voltage ( v
o
)
3) Output current ( i )
4) Voltage across the SCR (v
SCR
)







Figure Q4

b. A controlled half wave rectifier has an ac source of 240Vrms

at 60 Hz. The load is a
25O resistor. Determine the following
1) delay angle such that the average load current is 3A.
2) power absorbed by the load.
3) power factor.

Question 5
The single phase full bridge rectifier shown below has an AC source with V
m
=100V at
60Hzand a series R-L load with R
L
=10 and L= 10mH.
Determine
1) the average current in the load
2) the power absorbed by the load
3) the average and rms current in the diode.









Figure Q5




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