An opto-isolator based linearization technique of a typical thyristor driven pump
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1Instrumentation Engineering, Department of Applied Physics, University of Calcutta, 92 A.P.C Road, Kolkata-700009, India. scb152@indiatimes.com
Abstract:
A thyristor driven pump is operated by varying the DC input signal in the firing circuit of thyristor drive. This operation suffers from difficulties due to the nonlinear relation between thyristor output and DC input. In the present paper, an opto-isolator based linearization technique of a typical thyristor driven pump has been proposed. The design, fabrication and the necessary circuit diagram along with theoretical explanations of the resultant output has been described. The operation of the linearized thyristor driven pump has been studied experimentally and the experimental data before and after linearization are reported. The characteristic graphs are found to have very good linearity.
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