GTU 3160919 - Electric Drives: Repeated & Important Questions (Last 5 Years)
This document contains all the repeated and important questions from the past five GTU exams for the
subject Electric Drives (3160919). Each question listed below has appeared in at least two or more university
papers between Summer 2022 and Winter 2024.
1. Basics of Electric Drives
- Define electric drive and classify types of electric drives. (Summer 2024, Winter 2024, Winter 2023)
- State advantages of electric drives over conventional methods. (Winter 2023)
2. DC Motor Control
- Explain chopper control for DC motors, including motoring and regenerative braking. (Appeared in all years)
- Multi-quadrant operation of DC drive. (Summer 2024, Summer 2022)
- Dynamic model of DC motor / DC drive. (Winter 2023, Summer 2023, Summer 2022)
- Derive armature current equation in chopper-fed DC drive. (Summer 2023, Summer 2022)
- Closed-loop control of DC drive. (Summer 2022, Winter 2023)
3. Induction Motor Control
- V/f control principle and closed-loop control using slip regulation. (Winter 2024, Winter 2023, Summer 2023, Summer
2022)
- Effect of rotor resistance on torque-speed characteristics. (Summer 2023, Summer 2022, Winter 2023)
- Space Vector PWM technique for induction motor. (Winter 2024, Winter 2023, Summer 2023)
- Sinusoidal PWM and inverter-based control. (Summer 2022, Summer 2023)
4. Torque-Speed Characteristics
- DC motor torque-speed characteristics (series, shunt, separately excited). (Every year)
- Induction motor torque-speed curve under varying voltage, frequency, and rotor resistance. (Every year)
5. Comparison & Short Theoretical
- VSI vs CSI fed induction motor. (Summer 2024, Summer 2022)
GTU 3160919 - Electric Drives: Repeated & Important Questions (Last 5 Years)
- Converter-fed vs chopper-fed DC drives. (Summer 2022)
- Scalar vs vector control. (Summer 2022, Summer 2024)
- 120° vs 180° conduction mode in inverters. (Winter 2023, Winter 2024)