BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore – 19

Department of Electronics & Communication

Question Bank
7Sem Power Electronics & Control
No. Question
1 Define Power Electronics? Mention the applications of power electronics
Distinguish between(i) Latching current and Holding current, (ii)Device turn off time
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and Circuit turn off time, iii) Conerter grade SCr and Inverter grade SCR
3 Explain the static characteristics of a Unidirectional, 4 layers, 3 junctions devise?
4 How a small gate current will turn on the SCR? Analyse using two transistor model
Why Gate terminal is connected to inner P region why not outer P region? Analyse the
5 situation when gate signal is applied between Anode and Cathode instead of Gate and
Cathode when SCR is under forward blocking mode?
Discuss the following situations with respect to an SCR
6 a. Continuous application of gate signal after SCR has turned on
b. What happens the application of gate signal if SCR is in reverse mode
Distinguish between Latching current and Holding current, Converter Grade SCR and
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Inverter Grade SCR, Device turn off time and Circuit turn off time
8 How power electronics circuits are classified? List and Explain
Explain the static characteristics of a 3 terminal device which combines the advantages
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of both BJT and MOSFET
10 Write Control characteristics of SCR, BJT and IGBT
What is the impact of using power semiconductor devices as switching elements in
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power electronics converter circuits? How to overcome? Explain
12 Explain the static characteristics of 3 terminal bidirectional device
13 Explain the static characteristics of 2 terminal bidirectional device
14 A SCR connected in series with a inductor 0.5H and resistor 20 Ω with 100 V DC
supply. The latching current of a thyristor circuit is 50mA. The duration of the firing
pulse is 50μs. Will the thyristor fired?
15 A SCR connected in series with a inductor 0.5H with 100 V DC supply. If the latching
current is 4mA, obtain the minimum width of the gating pulse required to properly turn-
on the SCR.
16 An SCR has Vg-Ig characteristics given as Vg = 1.5 + 8 Ig, In a certain application, the
gate voltage consists of rectangular pulses of 12 V and of duration 50μs with duty cycle
0.2
a.Find the value of Rg series resistor in gate circuit to limit the peak dissipation in the
gate to 5 watts
b.Calculate average power dissipation in the gate
17 For an SCR, the gate cathode characteristic is given by a straight line with a gradient of
16 volts per amp passing through the origin, the maximum turn on time is 4μs and the
minimum gate current required to obtain this quick turn-on is 500 mA. If the gate source
voltage is 15V,
a.Calculate the resistance to be connected in series with the SCR gate
b.Compute the gate power dissipation, given that pulse width is equal to
the turn-on time and that the average gate power dissipation is 0.3 W.
Also, compute the maximum triggering frequency that will be possible
when pulse firing is used
18 An Induction motor needs a variable voltage for its sped control from input. Suggest a
power circuit and write its input and output waveforms
19 A thyristor has a forward breakover voltage of 175 V when a gate pulse of 3mA is
applied. Find the conduction angle, if a sinusoidal voltage of 250 V peak is applied.
Draw the waveforms to show delay angle α and conduction angle θ.
20 Compare SCR, BJT and IGBT
21 Explain the static characteristics of 2 terminal bidirectional device
22 Explain how an SCR can be protected against dv/dt
23 Identify and analyse a suitable triggering circuit in which the trigger angle can be
varied only up to an approximate value of 900.
24 Explain RC triggering circuit with suitable wave forms
25 Design a UJT relaxation oscillator to generate triggering pulse of frequency is f = 50 Hz
with pulse width is tg= 50μsec to fire an SCR.
26 Design a UJT relaxation oscillator for the given specification η=0.51, Ip = 10μA, Iv =
10mA, Vv = 3.5 V, VS = 30 V. The frequency of oscillations f = 50 Hz and width of
triggering pulse is tg= 60μsec. Assume VD = 0.5 V and C = 0.5 μF
27 A domestic fan needs a variable voltage, for its speed control from supply input by using
a suitable power circuit. Suggest a power circuit and write its input, output waveforms
28 The figure shows ac supply feeding a bridge converter. The converter consists of one
 SCR and three diodes. Input voltage is 230V rms. Assume load current is continuous
and load resistance is 10 ohms.
a) Draw the waveforms of output voltage, load current , current through thyristor
and current through diodes for a firing angle of 30º
b) Find dc output voltage and dc output power.

Fig b
29 Analyse a suitable triggering circuit using Resistor and Capacitor to generate the
triggering pulse to control the SCR in one half cycle of the input AC signal.
30 Analyse a suitable triggering circuit using three terminals unijunction device to generate
the triggering pulse to turn on SCR.
31 Design a suitable triggering circuit using three terminals, unijunction device to generate
triggering pulse of width 50μsec to turn on the SCR in half wave controlled rectifier
(HWR). Input to a HWR is 24sinwt V, 50Hz supply.
32 The firing circuit is constructed to generate a narrow pulse to trigger SCR present in a
power converter circuit by making use of a 3 terminal negative resistance device.
Provide its design specification. Analyse the circuit with waveform to trigger SCR in
AC to DC converter for following cases (Assume that both Power and Gate circuits are
synchronized)
i. To trigger an SCR with Constant delay angle
ii. To control/ Vary delay angle
iii. To generate only one pulse in each half cycle of the input AC signal
33 Analyze how an SCR can be protected against rate of change of voltage
34 The input voltage of fig below is V = 200V with load resistance of R = 5Ω. The load
and stray inductances are negligible and the thyristor is operated at a frequency of f=2
kHz. If the required dv/dt is 100 V/μSec and the discharge current is to be limited to
100A, determine
i) The value of Rs and Cs
ii) The snubber loss
iii) The power rating of the snubber resistor
35 List and explain the applications of Controlled rectifiers
36 The fully controlled thyristor converter is fed from a single-phase source. When the
firing angle is 00, the dc output voltage of the converter is 300V. What will be the output
voltage for a firing angle of 600 (Assuming Inductive loadwith continuous conduction)
37 Suggest a suitable single phase control rectifier circuit which possess one quadrant
operation and can be constructed using only two SCRs along with three diodes having
control in both half cycles of input AC signal. Why diodes are required in this circuit?
Analyze it for highly inductive load.
A single-phase bridge converter is used to charge a battery of 200 V having an internal
resistance of 2Ω as shown in figure. The SCRs are triggered by a constant dc signal. If
SCR T2 gets open circuited, what will be the average charging current? Write the output
waveform.

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39 The half wave controlled rectifier has a purely resistive load of R and the delay angle is
π/2, determine
i) Rectification efficiency
ii) Form Factor FF
iii) Ripple Factor RF
40 Identify and analyze a suitable control rectifier circuit which is constructed by using
 two SCR’s and three diodes and having control in two half cycles of input AC signal
and which possess one quadrant operation.
41 Identify and analyze a suitable control rectifier circuit having control in two half cycles
of input AC signal and which possess two quadrant operations.
42 How to get one quadrant operation from a control rectifier circuit having two quadrant
operations which requires four Thyristors to construct the circuit. Analyze?
43 Analyze a suitable control rectifier circuit which possesses four quadrant operations.
44 The semiconverter is connected to a 120V 50Hz supply. The load current Ia can be
assumed to be continuous and its ripple content is negligible. The turns ratio of the
transformer is unity.
a) Express the input current in a fourier series; determine the harmonic factor HF,
displacement factor DF and input power factor PF
b) If the delay angle is α = π/2, calculate Vdc, Vrms, HF, DF & PF
45 The full converter is connected to a 120V 50Hz supply. The load current Ia can be
assumed to be continuous and its ripple content is negligible. The turns ratio of the
transformer is unity.
a) Express the input current in a fourier series; determine the harmonic factor HF,
displacement factor DF and input power factor PF
b) If the delay angle is α = π/3, calculate Vdc, Vrms, HF, DF & PF
46 Define DC chopper? Explain the performance parameters of the DC-Chopper
47 Identify and analyse a suitable unregulated DC – DC converter its output is always
greater than input and also show that its principle can be applied to transfer energy from
one voltage source to another.

48 Identify and analyze the working principle of a regulated DC – DC converter its output
is always less than input voltage
49 Identify and analyze the working principle of a regulated DC – DC converter its output
is always greater than input voltage
50 Identify and analyze the working principle of a regulated DC – DC converter its output
is either less than or greater than input voltage and the output voltage polarity is
opposite to the input voltage polarity
 Design an unregulated step down DC chopper to get 109 average output voltage, 10 A
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output current from the 220V input with an efficiency of 99%.
The buck regulator has an input voltage of Vs = 12V. The required average output voltage
is Va = 5V and the peak to peak output ripple voltage is 20mV. The switching frequency
is 25kHz. If the peak to peak ripple current of the inductor is limited to 0.8A, determine
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i) The duty cycle k
ii) Inductance L
iii) Capacitance C
The boost regulator has an input voltage of Vs = 5V. The average output voltage is Va =
15V and the average load current Ia = 0.5A. The switching frequency is 25kHz. If L =
150μH and C = 220μF, determine
53 i) The duty cycle k
ii) ripple current of the inductor
iii) the peak current of inductor I2
iv) ripple voltage of the capacitor
The buck-boost regulator has an input voltage of Vs = 12V. The duty cycle k = 0.25 and
the switching frequency is 25kHz. If L = 150μH and C = 220μF, the average load current
Ia = 1.25A, determine
54 i) The average output voltage
ii) ripple current of the inductor
iii) the peak current of the transistor
iv) ripple voltage of the capacitor
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