VARIABLE FREQUENCY

DRIVES
1. Whatis VFD?
2. Purpose Of VFD
3. VFD System
4. Drive Operation
5. Operating Modes
6. AC Induction motor
7. components
8. Advantages
9. Function & Features
10. Applications.
 Variable Frequency Drives

This technology has several different names such

as :
• Variable speed drives.
• Adjustable speed drives.
• Adjustable frequency drives.
• Frequency converter.
• pump and fan applications.
• control and regulation.
• Speeding up or slowing down a machine or
process.
• Protection from overload currents
• Safe Acceleration
A variable frequency drives used in a drive
system consisting of the following three main
sub-systems:

• AC Motor.
• Controller.
• Operator Interface.
• In variable-speed applications, a dc motor may
be operating in one or more modes:
– Motoring.
– regenerative braking.
– dynamic braking.
– Plugging.
– four quadrants.
MOTORING
Three-phase motor
operation
• Torque is produced as the induction motor
generates flux in its rotating field.

• This flux must remain constant to produce

full-load torque.
The speed of the rotating electric field within
the induction motor.

Synchronous Speed = 120 x frequency

no. of motor poles
• All VFD’s need a power section that
converts AC power into DC power.

• This is called the converter bridge.

• Sometimes the front end of the VFD, the

converter is commonly a three-phase, full wave-
diode bridge.

• The DC bus is the true link between the

converter and inverter sections of the drive
• Vacuum tubes.
• Thyristors (SCR’s).
• Transistors.
ms.

Pulse-width-modulated voltage
and current waveform
• Control of process temperature and pressure.
• Maintenance costs can be lower.
• Save energy.
• Limit the torque
• Set-up Parameters
• The Control Method
• Acceleration or Accel-Ramp Rate
• Automatic Restart
• Stopping Method
• Automatic Signals
• Water Supply Pump Application
• Conveyor Application
• Exhaust Fan Application
• Compressor Application
• Significant energy savings
• Easy setup & programming
• Better design
• Competitive edge