Economics in Plant Selection: Economics in Plant Selection - The plant capacity and size depends upon the power demand. A power plant should be reliable i.e. its capacity must be…
Turgo Turbine Working Principle: The Turgo turbine is an impulse water turbine designed for medium head applications. Operational Turgo Turbines achieve efficiencies of about 87%. It works with net heads…
Blocking Oscillator - Definition, Operation and Types: The output of an active device may be coupled back to the input through a pulse transformer. If the relative windings polarities are…
Single Phase Full Bridge Inverter: The main drawback of half-bridge inverter is that it requires 3-wire dc supply. This difficulty can, however, be overcome by using a single phase full…
Three Phase Cycloconverter - Types, Working and Applications: A cycloconverter converts ac at one frequency to an ac of another frequency. Cycloconverters can be classified as single-phase to single-phase, three-phase…
Step Down Chopper with RLE Load Working Principle: The choppers are widely employed for speed control of dc motors in industrial and traction drives. Figure 27.30 (a) shows the basic…
Single Phase Dual Converter Circuit Diagram with Four Quadrant of Operation: We have seen that Single Phase full Converters with inductive loads allow only a two-quadrant operation. If two of…
UJT Relaxation Oscillator - Circuit Diagram and its Workings: UJT Relaxation Oscillator - The relaxation oscillator shown in Fig. 26.94 (a) consists of UJT and a capacitor C which is…