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Utilization of Electrical Energy

This document outlines a course on the utilization of electrical energy. The course objectives are to train students on electric drive characteristics, heating, welding, illumination, and traction systems. It covers topics like electric drives, heating methods, welding equipment, illumination fundamentals, and electric traction systems. The course aims to enable students to choose appropriate drives, understand various systems, and design illumination systems for different applications.

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Utilization of Electrical Energy

This document outlines a course on the utilization of electrical energy. The course objectives are to train students on electric drive characteristics, heating, welding, illumination, and traction systems. It covers topics like electric drives, heating methods, welding equipment, illumination fundamentals, and electric traction systems. The course aims to enable students to choose appropriate drives, understand various systems, and design illumination systems for different applications.

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UTILIZATION OF ELECTRICAL ENERGY

Course Code:13EE1135 L T P C
4 0 0 3
Pre requisites:
Basic knowledge in physics, kinematics, electrical engineering.
Course Educational Objectives:
The objective of this course is to train students on characteristics of
various drives, Heating, Welding methodologies, Illumination methods
and traction system.
Course Outcomes:
After completion of the course, the student will be able to
✤ Choose a right drive for a particular application.
✤ Understand various types of Heating, Welding and traction system.
✤ Student will be able to design Illumination systems for various
applications.
UNIT-I (12 Lectures)
ELECTRIC DRIVES:
Type of electric drives, choice of motor, starting and running characteristics,
speed control, temperature rise, Particular applications of electric drives,
Types of industrial loads, continuous, Intermittent and variable loads, load
Equalization.
UNIT-II (12 Lectures)
ELECTRIC HEATING:
Advantages and methods of electric heating, resistance heating, induction
heating and dielectric heating.

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UNIT-III (12 Lectures)


ELECTRIC WELDING:
Electric welding, resistance and arc welding, electric welding equipment,
comparison between A.C. and D.C. Welding.
UNIT-IV (12 Lectures)
ILLUMINATION FUNDAMENTALS & VARIOUS ILLUMINATION
METHODS:
Introduction, terms used in illumination, laws of illumination, polar curves,
photometry, integrating sphere, sources of light.
Discharge lamps, MV and SV lamps – comparison between tungsten
filament lamps and fluorescent tubes, Basic principles of light control,
Types and design of lighting and flood lighting.
UNIT-V (12 Lectures)
ELECTRIC TRACTION:
System of electric traction and track electrification. Review of existing
electric traction systems in India. Special features of traction motor,
methods of electric braking-plugging rheostatic braking and regenerative
braking, Mechanics of train movement. Speed-time curves for different
services – trapezoidal and quadrilateral speed time curves.
Calculations of tractive effort, power, specific energy consumption for
given run, effect of varying acceleration and braking retardation, adhesive
weight and braking retardation adhesive weight and coefficient of adhesion.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. J.B. Gupta, “Utilization of Electric Power and Electric
Traction”, Kataria & Sons publishers, Delhi, IX Edtion, 2004.
(Units 1-5)
2. C.L. Wadhwa, “Generation, Distribution and Utilization of
electrical Energy”, New Age International (P) Limited
Publishers, 3rd Edition, 2010. (Units 1-5)

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REFERENCES:
1. N.V. Suryanarayana, “Utilization of Electrical Power
including Electric drives and Electric traction”, New Age
International (P) Limited Publishers, 1st Edition,1994.
2. E. Open Shaw Taylor, “Utilization of Electric Energy”, Orient
Longman,1st Edition,1937.

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