Developing a Simple and an Accurate Formula for the Conduction Angle of a Single Phase Rectifier with RL Load

The paper presents a simple and an accurate formula that has been developed for the conduction angle (δ) of a single phase half-wave or full-wave controlled rectifier with RL load. This formula can be also used for calculating the conduction angle (δ) in case of A.C. voltage regulator with inductive load under discontinuous current mode. The simulation results shows that the conduction angle calculated from the developed formula agree very well with that obtained from the exact solution arrived from the iterative method. Applying the developed formula can reduce the computational time and reduce the time for manual classroom calculation. In addition, the proposed formula is attractive for real time implementations.

Authors:

• S. Ali Al-Mawsawi
• Fadhel A. Albasri

Keywords:

• Conduction Angle
• Firing Angle
• Excitation Angle
• Load Angle.

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