S.NO | TITLES | ABSTARCTS | Year |
PEMD1 | PFC Cuk Converter-Fed BLDC Motor Drive | This paper deals with a power factor correction (PFC)-based Cuk converter-fed brushless dc motor (BLDC) drive
as a cost-effective solution for low-power applications. The speed of the BLDC motor is controlled by varying the dc-bus voltage of a voltage source inverter (VSI) which uses a low frequency switching of VSI (electronic commutation of the BLDC motor) for low switching losses. A diode bridge rectifier followed by a Cuk converter working in a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) is used for control of dc-link voltage with unity power factor at ac mains. Performance of the PFC Cuk converter is evaluated under four different operating conditions of discontinuous and continuous conduction modes (CCM) and a comparison is made to select a best suited mode of operation. The performance of the proposed system is simulated in a MATLAB/Simulink environment and a hardware prototype of the proposed drive is developed to validate its performance over a wide range of speed with unity power factor at ac mains. |
2015 |
PEMD2 | Investigation and Suppression of Harmonics Interaction in High-Power PWM Current-Source
Motor Drives |
For high-power PWM current-source drive systems, the distortion of dc-link current cannot be ignored due to the low converter switching frequency and the relative small dc choke for reduced cost/weight. The distorted dc-link current may introduce inter harmonics in the grid side and the motor side through the rectifier and the inverter, and may give rise to the system resonance at certain motor speeds. When resonance occurs, significant inter harmonics are introduced in the drive system, which will degrade the grid-side power quality and produce the excessive torque ripples on the motor side. In this paper, the harmonics interaction in a high-power PWM current-source drive system is investigated, and a method for the system resonance estimation is proposed. Based on the estimation of resonance conditions, a dc-link virtual impedance-based control method is developed to mitigate the resonance resulted from the harmonics interaction. The investigation of harmonics interaction, the proposed resonance estimation method, and the dc-link virtual impedance-based suppression method are verified through both simulations and experiments. | 2015 |
PEMD3 | Predictive Torque Control Scheme for Three-Phase Four-Switch Inverter-Fed Induction Motor Drives With DC-Link Voltages Offset Suppression | The four-switch three-phase (B4) inverter, having a lower number of switches, was first presented for the possibility of reducing the inverter cost, and it became very attractive as it can be utilized in fault-tolerant control to solve the open/short-circuit fault of the six-switch three-phase (B6) inverter. However, the balance among the phase currents collapses due to the fluctuation of the two dc-link capacitor voltages; therefore, its application is limited. This paper proposes a predictive torque control (PTC) scheme for the B4 inverter-fed induction motor (IM) with the dc-link voltage offset suppression. The voltage vectors of the B4 inverter under the fluctuation of the two dc-link capacitor voltages are derived for precise prediction and control of the torque and stator flux. The three-phase currents are forced to stay balance by directly controlling the stator flux. The voltage offset of the two dc-link capacitors is modeled and controlled in the predictive point of view. A lot of simulation and experimental results are presented to validate the proposed control scheme. | 2015 |
PEMD4 | Deterioration Monitoring of DC-Link Capacitors in AC Machine Drives
by Current Injection |
This letter proposes a novel condition monitoring scheme of dc-link capacitors in PWM inverter-fed induction machine
Drives with front-end diode rectifiers, which is based on the online capacitance estimation scheme. While the motor is operating in the regenerative mode for the estimation process, a regulated ac component is injected into the stator winding, which causes a dclink Voltage ripple at the same frequency. From the ac components of the dc-link voltage and current, the capacitance is estimated with a recursive least squares algorithm. With this method, experimental results have shown that the estimation error of the capacitance is less than 1%, from which the deterioration condition of the capacitors can be diagnosed reliably. |
2015 |