PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SHUNT WOUND DC MOTOR IN PROCESS CONTROL

This work is on the performance of a dc motor with emphasis on a shunt wound DC motor. Shunt DC Motors operates on direct current. As such, the field windings and armature are connected in a parallel combination, and in electrical terminology a parallel combination is known as a shunt. This type of motor is a "shunt-wound" DC Motor and the type of winding is called a shunt winding. This paper work also describes how the equation of the system dynamic performance is developed, and effect of the system parameters on the dynamic responses is investigated. A software application package called MATLAB/SIMULINK is used for simulation. The simulated results, plots and output is used to predict the dynamic responses of the dc motor. Also, certain parameters and armature voltages were varied to observe the dynamic performance of the DC motor. Keywords: Shunt DC Motors, MATLAB/SIMULINK, Armature Voltage