Microprocessors as Part of Electric Drives and Processing Plants

Published: 28 October 2016

Programme Summary

Major: 13.04.02 Power Industry and Electrical Engineering

Degree: Master

Course units:

1. Setting up a microprocessor and a microcomputer.
2. Microcomputer as part of an automatic electric drive.

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
3. Office-hours.

Total hours – 216

Total points – 6

Laboratory classes – 26

Midterm assessment –Examination

Energy and Resource Conservation by Means of Automatic Electric Drive

Published: 28 October 2016

Programme Summary

Major: 13.04.02 Power Industry and Electrical Engineering

Degree: Master

Course units:

1. Principles of resource and energy conservation
2. Power saving in fixed-speed motor drives
3. Variable frequency drive as the main means of energy and resource conservation
4. Issues of resource saving

Course contents:

1. The course looks at theoretical and practical aspects of automatic electric drives used for power and resource saving in industry and everyday life.

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
3. Office-hours.

Total hours – 144

Total points – 4

Laboratory classes – 39

Midterm assessment –Examination

Variable Frequency AC Drives

Published: 28 October 2016

Programme Summary

Major: 13.04.02 Power Industry and Electrical Engineering

Degree: Master

Course units:

1. Introduction. Key concepts and definitions. Up-to-date AC drives and their prospective development. Frequency converters in electric drives. Aims and structure of the course.
2. Electromechanical properties of an induction motor with an open-loop frequency control system and with scalar controls
3. Study of induction drive vector control systems
4. Study of synchronous variable frequency motor drives

Course contents:

1. Up-to-date variable frequency AC drives: General information;
2. Theoretical and practical skills of selecting, calculating and setting up components of up-to-date variable frequency AC drives;
3. Theoretical and practical skills of tuning up control systems used in up-to-date variable frequency AC drives.

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
3. Office-hours.

Total hours – 288

Total points – 8

Laboratory classes – 48

Midterm assessment – Examination

Variable Speed DC Drives

Published: 28 October 2016

Programme Summary

Major: 13.04.02 Power Industry and Electrical Engineering

Degree: Master

Course units:

1. Thyristor converter
2. Thyristor Converter/Motor
3. Microprocessor controlled thyristor converters
4. Concurrent operation of thyristor converters.
5. Study of the Drive Monitor software to be used for Siemens converters.
6. Parameterization of a microprocessor controlled thyristor converter.
7. Creating different effects at the input of an electric drive control system.
8. Application of free functional blocks of a SIMOREG converter.
9. Study of an electric drive control system with an EMF feedback.
10. The ‘Thyristor Converter/Motor’ system parameter calculation and circuit regulator calculation.
11. The ‘Thyristor Converter/Motor’ system modelling in MATLAB.
12. Modelling of an electric drive control system with an EMF feedback.
13. Study of an electric drive control system with a motor speed feedback.
14. Modelling of an electric drive control system with with a motor speed feedback.
15. Study of a dual-zone motor speed control.
16. Modelling of a dual-zone drive control.
17. Study of operation of two electric drives via a point-to-point interface.
18. Modelling of an electric drive position control system.

Course contents:

1. Up-to-date variable speed DC drives: General information;
2. Theoretical and practical skills of selecting, calculating and setting up components of up-to-date variable speed DC drives;
3. Theoretical and practical skills of tuning up control systems used in up-to-date variable speed DC drives.

Activities:

1. Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
2. Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
3. Office-hours.

Total hours – 252

Total points – 7

Laboratory classes – 223

Midterm assessment – Examination