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Dept. : EEE
St. Peter’s Engineering College (Autonomous)
Dullapally (P), Medchal, Hyderabad – 500100. Academic Year
QUESTION BANK 2024-25
Subject Code : AS22-02PC13 Subject : Power Electronics
Class/Section : B. Tech. Year : III Semester : I

BLOOMS LEVEL
Remember L1 Understand L2 Apply L3
Analyze L4 Evaluate L5 Create L6

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UNIT – I
1 a) Define latching current & holding current of a SCR 1M L1 C321.1
b) Define Thyristor turn off time and turn-on time. 1M L1 C321.1
c) Draw the turn-on characteristics of SCR and mark the timings t d, tr,ton 1M L1 C321.1
d) What is the necessity of using Snubber Circuit. 1M L1 C321.1
e) What is crowbar protection of SCR 1M L1 C321.1
a) Draw the V-I characteristics of SCR and mark the holding current and
2 latching current in the characteristics. 3M L2 C321.1
b) What is meant by commutation? What are the types of 3M
L2 C321.1
commutation?
c) Draw the transfer characteristics, Output characteristics of IGBT. 3M L1 C321.1
d) The trigger circuit of a thyristor has a source voltage of 15V and the 3M
load line has a slope of 120V per ampere. The minimum gate current to
turn on the SCR is 25mA. Compute (i). Source resistance required in the L5 C321.1
gate circuit (ii). The trigger voltage and trigger current for an average
gate power dissipation of 0.4 watts
e) Compare BJT & MOSFET. 3M L2 C321.1
a) Discuss the construction and different operating modes of the
3 5M L2 C321.1
thyristor with the help of its static V-Icharacteristics.
b) Draw & Explain the Dynamic Characteristics of SCR. 5M L2 C321.1
c) Discus the different Turn ON methods of SCR 5M L2 C321.1
d) Explain series & parallel connection of SCR’s. 5M L2 C321.1
e) Expalin the operation of SCR with TWO Transistor model. 5M L4 C321.1
a) Draw the basic structure of an Power MOSFET and explain its 10M
4 L2 C321.1
operation along with characteristics.
b) What is meant by commutation? What are the types of 10M
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commutation? Discuss different commutation methods in detail
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c) What is meant by triggering of SCR? What are the different types of 10M
gate triggering circuits or turnon methods? Explain UJT triggering of L4 C321.1
SCR.

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UNIT – II
1 a) What is meant by phase controlled rectifier? 1M L2 C321.2
b) Mention some of the applications of controlled rectifier. 1M L2 C321.2
c) What is meant by conduction angle and extinction angle 1M L2 C321.2
d) What are the advantages of freewheeling diodes in a controlled
rectifier? 1M L2 C321.2
e) Define repple factor and over lap angle 1M L4 C321.2
2 a)classify the phase controlled converters 3M L1 C321.2
b) What is the necessity to use freewheeling diode? 3M L4 C321.2
c) Sketch the four quadrants in which the dual converter 3M
L2 C321.2
operates?
d) Explain the principle of dual converter 3M L2 C321.2
e) Differences between non-circulating current mode & circulating
3M L4 C321.2
current mode of a dual converter.
a) Explain the operation of a single phase half wave converter for
3 5M L2 C321.2
R- load with neat circuit diagram and necessarywaveforms.
b) Explain the working of a single phase half wave controlled 5M
rectifier with R-Lload and also Obtain the average output voltage, L2 C321.2
rms voltage & currents equations
c)Derive the expressions for the following performance factors 5M
of single phase fully controlled bridge converter with R-L load
(a) Output current L4 C321.2
(b) Output voltage
(c) RMS output voltage
(d) form factor
d) Explain the effect of source inductance in single phase rectifier. 5M L2 C321.2
e) Explain the operation of dual converter with neatsketch 5M L2 C321.2
a) Explain the working of a single phase half controlled bridge 10M
4 converter with R load and also Obtain the average output voltage, L2 C321.2
rms voltage & currents equations.
b) Explain the working of a single phase full wave controlled 10M
converter with RL load and also Obtain the average output L2 C321.2
voltage, rms voltage & currents equations
c) Explain the operation of a single phase full wave mid-point 10M L2 C321.2
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converter with RL-load with the help of circuit and output

waveforms and also Obtain the average output voltage, rms
voltage & currents equations.

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UNIT – III
1 a) What is an AC voltage controller? 1M L1 C321.3
b) List out two differences between TRIAC and Thyristor? 1M L2 C321.3
c) What are the different types of control strategies used in AC
1M L4 C321.3
voltage controller.
d) What are the applications of Cyclo converters? 1M L1 C321.3
e) What are the advantages and disadvantages of cyclo
1M L1 C321.3
converters?
2 a). Classification of AC Voltage Controllers. 3M L1 C321.3
b) Mention the applications of AC Voltage Controller. 3M L1 C321.3
c) What are the three main limitations of a cycloconverter 3M
L2 C321.3
compared ac voltage controller
d) Draw and explain the control circuit block diagram for a 3M
L1 C321.3
cycloconverter with non-circulating current mode.
e) Describe the principle of operation of cycloconerter 3M L2 C321.3
3 a). Explain the operation of TRIAC in detail. 5M L2 C321.3
b) Draw & Explain the V-I characteristics of TRIAC in detail 5M L2 C321.3
c) A single phase voltage controller is employed for controlling the 5M L5 C321.3
power flow from 230V, 50Hz Source into a load circuit consisting
of R=3 ohms, ѠL= 4ohms. Calculate (i) the range of firing angle,
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(ii) the maximum value of RMS load current, (iii) The maximum
power & power factor, (iv) the maximum values of average and
rmsthyristor currents
d) Describe the working principle of 1 – phase to 1 - phase step- 5M
down midpoint type cyclo-converter associated with waveforms L2 C321.3
for R load
e) Describe the working principle of 1 – phase to 1 - phase step-up 5M
midpoint type cyclo-converter associated with waveforms for R L2 C321.3
load.
a) Explain the operation of a single phase AC Voltage controller for 10M
4 L2 C321.3
R- load with neat circuit diagram and necessary waveforms
b) Explain the operation of a single phase AC Voltage controller 10M
L2 C321.3
for RL- load with neat circuit diagram and necessary waveforms.
c) Describe the working principle of 1 – phase to 1 - phase step-up 10M
L2 C321.3
Bridge type cyclo-converter associated with waveforms for R load

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UNIT – IV
1 a) What is meant by dc chopper? 1M L2 C321.4
b) Define duty-cycle? 1M L2 C321.4
c) What is AC chopper? 1M L4 C321.4
d) What is meant by step-up and step-down chopper? 1M L2 C321.4
e) What are the applications of dc chopper? 1M L3 C321.4
a) What is meant by Time Ratio Control? What are the two types
2 3M L2 C321.4
of TRC?
b) How the output voltage of chopper depends on the duty cycle? 3M L1 C321.4
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c) What is meant by current commutation? 3M L2 C321.4

d) What is Jones chopper? 3M L2 C321.4
e) Write down the expression for average output voltage for step
3M L1 C321.4
up chopper.
a) Describe the principle of step-up chopper. Derive an expression
3 for the average output voltage in terms of input dc voltage & duty 5M L4 C321.4
cycle.
b) Describe the principle of step-down chopper. Derive an 5M
expression for the average output voltage in terms of input dc L2 C321.4
voltage & duty cycle.
c) Explain Jones chopper with neat diagram. 5M L2 C321.4
d) Explain Morgan’s chopper with neat diagram 5M L2 C321.4
e) Explain the effects of source and load inductance on the 5M
L2 C321.4
operation of a chopper.
a) With the help of circuit diagrams, discuss the operation of class- 10M
4 A,B,C class –D chopper. L2 C321.4
b) Explain the four quadrant operation of chopper. 10M L2 C321.4
c) Explain various control strategies of chopper in detail. 10M L2 C321.4

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UNIT - V
1 a) What is meant by inverter? 1M L1 C321.5
b) What are the main classifications of inverter? 1M L1 C321.5
c) What are the applications of an inverter? 1M L1 C321.5
d) Why thyristors are not preferred for inverters? 1M L1 C321.5
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e) Give two advantages of CSI. 1M L1 C321.5

a) What is the condition to be satisfied in the selection of L and C
2 3M L2 C321.5
in a series inverter?
b) Why diodes should be connected in anti parallel with the 3M
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thyristors in inverter circuits?
c) Draw the circuit diagram of single phase bridge inverter. 3M L2 C321.5
d) What is the main drawback of a single phase half bridge 3M
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inverter?
e) What is meant a series inverter? And explain its operation. 3M L2 C321.5
a) Describe the operation of series inverter with aid of diagrams.
3 Describe an expression for output frequency, current and 5M L2 C321.5
voltages. What are the disadvantages of basic series inverter?
b) A three phase bridge inverter delivers power to a resistive load 5M
from a 400V DC source.For a star connected load of 8Ω per phase,
L4 C321.5
determine RMS value of load current and RMS value of thyristor
current for 1200 conduction mode of operation.
c) Explain the operation of 3 phase bridge inverter for 180 degree 5M
mode of operation with aid of relevant phase and line voltage L2 C321.5
waveforms.
d) Explain the operation of 3 phase bridge inverter for 120 degree 5M
mode of operation with aid of relevant phase and line voltage L2 C321.5
waveforms
e) Explain the operation of single pulse modulation of inverter 5M
L2 C321.5
with neat diagram.
a) Draw and explain the operation of three-phase series-inverter 10M
4 L2 C321.5
circuit.
b) Describe the pulse width modulated and sinusoidal pulse width 10M
L4 C321.5
modulated inverter.
c)A single phase half bridge inverter has a resistance load of 2.4W 10M
and the dc input voltage of 48V. Determine (i) RMS Output
voltage at the fundamental frequency, (ii) Output power P 0, (iii)
Average & Peak currents of each transistor, (iv) Peak blocking L5 C321.5
voltage of each transistor, (v) Total harmonic distortion &
Distortion factor, (vi) Harmonic factor & Distortion factor at the
lowest order harmonic