A DC chopper is used for regenerative braking of a separately excited DC motor. The DC supply voltage is 400V. The armature current during regenerative braking is kept constant at 300 A with negligible ripple. For a duty cycle of 60% the power return to the DC supply is 

(a) 78 kW (b) 58 kW (c) 38 kW (d) 48 kW

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A DC chopper is used for regenerative braking of a separately excited DC motor. The DC supply voltage is 400V. The armature current during regenerative braking is kept constant at 300 A with negligible ripple. For a duty cycle of 60% the power return to the DC supply is  48 kW

Answer :

48

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