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Electrical Engineering — 5th Semester Syllabus

Electrical Engineering

Credits Allocation Table (L-T-P Structure)

Course TitleCodeLTPCredits
Power Systems-I (Apparatus and Modeling)1005073003
Power Systems Lab - I100507P0021
Control Systems1005023003
Control Systems Lab100502P0021
Microprocessors1005043003
Microprocessors Lab100504P0021
Power Electronics1005063003
Power Electronics Lab100506P0021
Program Elective - 1 (Linear Control System)1045033003
OE-1(MOOC) MOOCs / SWAYAM / NPTEL Courses - 1100511P3003
Summer Entrepreneurship-II10051000126
Graduate Employability Skills and Competitive Courses (GATE, IES, etc.)-3000
TOTAL----33

Power Systems-I (Apparatus and Modeling)

100507
Theory Course • 4 Units
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Module 1: Basic Concepts (4 hours)

  • Evolution of Power Systems and Present-Day Scenario
  • Structure of a power system: Bulk Power Grids and Micro-grids
  • Generation: Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources
  • Distributed Energy Resources
  • Energy Storage
  • Transmission and Distribution Systems: Line diagrams
  • Transmission and distribution voltage levels and topologies (meshed and radial systems)
  • Synchronous Grids and Asynchronous (DC) interconnections
  • Review of Three-phase systems
  • Analysis of simple three-phase circuits
  • Power Transfer in AC circuits and Reactive Power
  • Skin effect and Ferranti effect

Module 2: Power System Components (15 hours)

  • Overhead Transmission Lines and Cables: Electrical and Magnetic Fields around conductors, Corona
  • Parameters of lines and cables
  • Capacitance and Inductance calculations for simple configurations
  • Travelling-wave Equations
  • Sinusoidal Steady state representation of Lines: Short, medium and long lines
  • Power Transfer, Voltage profile and Reactive Power
  • Characteristics of transmission lines
  • Surge Impedance Loading
  • Series and Shunt Compensation of transmission lines
  • Transformers: Three-phase connections and Phase-shifts
  • Three-winding transformers, auto-transformers, Neutral Grounding transformers
  • Tap-Changing in transformers
  • Transformer Parameters
  • Single phase equivalent of three-phase transformers
  • Synchronous Machines: Steady-state performance characteristics
  • Operation when connected to infinite bus
  • Real and Reactive Power Capability Curve of generators
  • Typical waveform under balanced terminal short circuit conditions – steady state, transient and sub-transient equivalent circuits
  • Loads: Types, Voltage and Frequency Dependence of Loads
  • Per-unit System and per unit calculations

Module 3: Over-voltages and Insulation Requirements (4 hours)

  • Generation of Over-voltages: Lightning and Switching Surges
  • Protection against Over-voltages, Insulation Coordination
  • Propagation of Surges
  • Voltages produced by traveling surges
  • Bewley Diagrams

Module 4: Introduction to DC Transmission & Renewable Energy Systems (9 hours)

  • DC Transmission Systems: Line-Commutated Converters (LCC) and Voltage Source Converters (VSC)
  • LCC and VSC based dc link, Real Power Flow control in a dc link
  • Comparison of ac and dc transmission
  • Solar PV systems: I-V and P-V characteristics of PV panels, power electronic interface of PV to the grid
  • Wind Energy Systems: Power curve of wind turbine
  • Fixed and variable speed turbines
  • Permanent Magnetic Synchronous Generators and Induction Generators
  • Power Electronics interfaces of wind generators to the grid

Control Systems

100502
Theory Course • 5 Units
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Module 1: Introduction to control problem (4 hours)

  • Industrial Control examples
  • Mathematical models of physical systems
  • Control hardware and their models
  • Transfer function models of linear time-invariant systems
  • Feedback Control: Open-Loop and Closed-loop systems
  • Benefits of Feedback
  • Block diagram algebra
  • Signal flow graph

Module 2: Time Response Analysis (10 hours)

  • Standard test signals
  • Time response of first and second order systems for standard test inputs
  • Application of initial and final value theorem
  • Design specifications for second-order systems based on the time-response
  • Concept of Stability
  • Routh-Hurwitz Criteria
  • Relative Stability analysis
  • Root-Locus technique
  • Construction of Root-loci

Module 3: Frequency-response analysis (6 hours)

  • Relationship between time and frequency response
  • Polar plots, Bode plots
  • Nyquist stability criterion
  • Relative stability using Nyquist criterion – gain and phase margin
  • Closed-loop frequency response

Module 4: Introduction to Controller Design (10 hours)

  • Stability, steady-state accuracy, transient accuracy, disturbance rejection, insensitivity and robustness of control systems
  • Root-loci method of feedback controller design
  • Design specifications in frequency-domain
  • Frequency-domain methods of design
  • Application of Proportional, Integral and Derivative Controllers, Lead and Lag compensation in designs
  • Analog and Digital implementation of controllers

Module 5: State variable Analysis (6 hours)

  • Concepts of state variables
  • State space model
  • Diagonalization of State Matrix
  • Solution of state equations
  • Eigen values and Stability Analysis
  • Concept of controllability and observability
  • Pole-placement by state feedback
  • Discrete-time systems
  • Difference Equations
  • State-space models of linear discrete-time systems
  • Stability of linear discrete-time systems

Microprocessors

100504
Theory Course • 6 Units
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Module 1: Fundamentals of Microprocessors (7 Hours)

  • Fundamentals of Microprocessor Architecture
  • 8-bit Microprocessor and Microcontroller architecture
  • Comparison of 8-bit microcontrollers, 16-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers
  • Definition of embedded system and its characteristics
  • Role of microcontrollers in embedded Systems
  • Overview of the 8051 family

Module 2: The 8051 Architecture (8 Hours)

  • Internal Block Diagram
  • CPU, ALU, Address, Data and Control bus
  • Working Registers, SFRs
  • Clock and RESET circuits
  • Stack and Stack Pointer
  • Program Counter
  • I/O ports
  • Memory Structures, Data and Program Memory
  • Timing diagrams and Execution Cycles

Module 3: Instruction Set and Programming (8 Hours)

  • Addressing modes: Introduction, Instruction syntax, Data types, Subroutines
  • Immediate addressing, Register addressing, Direct addressing, Indirect addressing, Relative addressing, indexed addressing
  • Bit inherent addressing, bit direct addressing
  • 8051 Instruction set, Instruction timings
  • Data transfer instructions, Arithmetic instructions, Logical instructions
  • Branch instructions, Subroutine instructions, Bit manipulation instruction
  • Assembly language programs, C language programs
  • Assemblers and compilers
  • Programming and debugging tools

Module 4: Memory and I/O Interfacing (6 Hours)

  • Memory and I/O expansion buses, control signals, memory wait states
  • Interfacing of peripheral devices such as General Purpose I/O, ADC, DAC, timers, counters, memory devices

Module 5: External Communication Interface (6 Hours)

  • Synchronous and Asynchronous Communication
  • RS232, SPI, I2C
  • Introduction and interfacing to protocols like Blue-tooth and Zig-bee

Module 6: Applications (6 Hours)

  • LED, LCD and keyboard interfacing
  • Stepper motor interfacing, DC Motor interfacing, sensor interfacing

Power Electronics

100506
Theory Course • 4 Units
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Module 1: Power switching devices (8 Hours)

  • Diode, Thyristor, MOSFET, IGBT: I-V Characteristics
  • Firing circuit for thyristor
  • Voltage and current commutation of a thyristor
  • Gate drive circuits for MOSFET and IGBT

Module 2: Thyristor rectifiers (7 Hours)

  • Single-phase half-wave and full-wave rectifiers
  • Single-phase full-bridge thyristor rectifier with R-load and highly inductive load
  • Three-phase full-bridge thyristor rectifier with R-load and highly inductive load
  • Input current wave shape and power factor

Module 3: DC-DC converter (10 Hours)

  • Elementary chopper with an active switch and diode
  • Concepts of duty ratio and average voltage
  • Power circuit of a buck converter, analysis and waveforms at steady state
  • Duty ratio control of output voltage
  • Power circuit of a boost converter, analysis and waveforms at steady state
  • Relation between duty ratio and average output voltage

Module 4: Single-phase and 3-phase voltage source inverter (14 Hours)

  • Power circuit of single-phase voltage source inverter
  • Switch states and instantaneous output voltage
  • Square wave operation of the inverter
  • Concept of average voltage over a switching cycle
  • Bipolar sinusoidal modulation and unipolar sinusoidal modulation
  • Modulation index and output voltage
  • Power circuit of a three-phase voltage source inverter
  • Switch states, instantaneous output voltages
  • Average output voltages over a sub-cycle
  • Three-phase sinusoidal modulation
  • Current Source Inverter

Program Elective - 1: Linear Control System

104503
Theory Course • 5 Units
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1. Control Systems (8 Hrs.)

  • Basics & Components, Introduction to basic terms, Classifications and types of Control Systems
  • Block diagrams & Signal flow graphs
  • Transfer function, Determination of transfer function using Block diagram reduction techniques and Mason's Gain formula
  • Control system components: Electrical, Mechanical, Electronic, AC/DC Servo Motors, Stepper Motors, Tacho Generators, Synchro's, Magnetic Amplifiers, Servo Amplifiers

2. Time-Domain Analysis (8 Hrs.)

  • Time domain performance specifications
  • Transient response of first and second order systems
  • Steady state errors and Static error constants in unity feedback control systems
  • Response with P, PI and PID controllers
  • Limitations of time domain analysis

3. Frequency Domain Analysis (8 Hrs.)

  • Polar and inverse polar plots
  • Frequency domain specifications and Performance of LTI systems
  • Logarithmic plots (Bode plots), Gain and Phase Margins, Relative stability
  • Correlation with time domain performance
  • Closed loop frequency responses from Open loop response
  • Limitations of frequency domain analysis, Minimum/Non-minimum phase systems

4. Stability and Compensation Techniques (8 Hrs.)

  • Concepts, absolute, Asymptotic, Conditional and Marginal stability
  • Routh-Hurwitz and Nyquist stability criterion
  • Root locus technique and its application
  • Concepts of compensation, series/parallel/series parallel/feedback compensation
  • Lag/Lead/Lag-Lead networks for compensation
  • Compensation using P, PI, PID controllers

5. Control System Analysis using State Variable Methods (8 Hrs.)

  • State variable representation
  • Conversion of state variable models to transfer functions
  • Conversion of transfer functions to state variable models
  • Solution of state equations
  • Concepts of Controllability and Observability
  • Stability of linear systems
  • Equivalence between transfer function and state variable representations
  • State variable analysis of digital control system
  • Digital control design using state feedback

Power Systems Lab - I

100507P
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Control Systems Lab

100502P
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Microprocessors Lab

100504P
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Power Electronics Lab

100506P
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Summer Entrepreneurship-II

100510
Laboratory Subject • Course Details
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OE-1(MOOC) MOOCs / SWAYAM / NPTEL Courses - 1

100511P
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