Duration 5 Days

Course Description

This course of Electrical Motors overviews types of motor, and covers selection criterion, motors, three-phase motors, single-phase motors including protective relays, maintenance, testing tools and methods and under-voltage protection systems. The course will include Electronic circuits for motor control, power factor correction, and harmonics, and introduction to power electronic circuits.

Course Objective

• Be familiar with electrical motors
• Understand drive power circuits
• Be familiar with speed control methods of AC/DC motors:
• Understand electronic circuits for motor control.
• Power factor and harmonics.
• Be familiar with electric motor operation and maintenance

Course Outline

• Introduction
• Pre Assessment

# Electrical Motors

• The direct current (DC) motors.
• The cage induction motors.
• The AC synchronous motors.
• Three-phase AC motors.
• Single-phase AC motors.
• The brushless servomotor.

# Drive Power Circuits:

• DC motor drive systems.
• AC to DC power conversion.
• AC to DC motor operation.
• AC to DC motor construction.
• Theory and operation of  AC/DC motors.
• Performance of AC/DC motors.
• Starting methods of AC/DC motors.
• Conventional methods.
• Advanced methods.
• AC motor drive systems.
• AC to AC power converters with intermediate DC link.

# Speed Control Methods of AC/DC Motors:

• Conventional methods.
• Advanced methods.

# Electronic circuits for motor control:

• Introduction to power electronic circuits and drives.
• Power diodes, transistors, thyristors, and triacs.
• Converter Control:
• Single phase half wave rectifiers.
• Single phase full wave rectifiers.
• Three phase half-wave rectifiers.
• Three phase half-wave rectifiers
• Post Assessment