Electrical Engineering: Power Electronics MCQ


16. Question

A fully-controlled three-phase bridge converter is working from a 415 V, 50 Hz AC supply. It is supplying constant current of 100 A at 400 V to a DC load. Assume large inductive smoothing and neglect overlap. The rms value of the AC line current in amperes (round off to two decimal places) is ________.




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17. Question

A DC-DC buck converter operates in continuous conduction mode. It has 48 V input voltage, and it feeds a resistive load of 24 Ω. The switching frequency of the converter is 250 Hz. If switch-on duration is 1 ms, the load power is




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18. Question

In a DC-DC boost converter, the duty ratio is controlled to regulate the output voltage at 48 V. The input DC voltage is 24 V. The output power is 120 W. The switching frequency is 50 kHz. Assume ideal components and a very large output filter capacitor. The converter operates at the boundary between continuous and discontinuous conduction modes. The value of the boost inductor (in μH) is ________.




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19. Question

A single-phase fully-controlled thyristor converter is used to obtain an average voltage of 180 V with 10 A constant current to feed a DC load. It is fed from single-phase AC supply of 230 V, 50 Hz. Neglect the source impedance. The power factor (round off to two decimal places) of AC mains is ___________.




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20. Question

The asymptotic Bode magnitude plot of a minimum phase transfer function G(s) is shown below.

Consider the following two statements.
Statement I : Transfer function G(s) has three poles and one zero.
Statement II : At very high frequency (ω →∞),the phase angle ∠G(jω)= -3π/2.

Which one of the following options is correct?




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