EXPERIMENT NO:8 DATE:

SPEED CONTROL OF 3-Ф INDUCTION MOTOR USING V/f

CONTROL TECHNIQUE

AIM: To study the performance of 3-Ф Induction Motor with V/f speed control technique.
APPARATUS:
1. Auto Transformer
2. Voltage Source Inverter
2. 3-Ф Induction Motor
3. CRO
4. Multilmeter
4.Current probe

CIRCUIT DIAGRAM:

S1 S3 S5

Ac supply
I. M.

S2 S4 S6

Step down T/f

Diode Rectifier

PROCEDURE:
1. Connect the circuit as per the circuit diagram.
2. Switch ON the control circuit of inverter
3. Press the push button, till the synchronization is achieved i,e positive going sine wave
synchronises with –ve going ramp wave.
4. Observe the triangular carrier wave , 3-Ф reference waves and gating pulses on CRO
5. Vary the nob of modulation index i,e vary the amplitude of the reference wave
6.Switch ON the power supply for inverter
7.Connect the CRO probes and observe the load voltage and motor phase current
8.Measure the rms values of output voltage and observe its frequency. It can be seen that v/f is
maintained constant for various ma
9.Repeat the above steps with no load and load on motor
10. Vary ma till overmodulation is reached and analyse the results.
11. Observe the THD of the input current and output voltage.

PRECAUTIONS:
1. Connections should be tight.
2. Before removing connections, bring all components to their initial conditions.
3. Control circuit should be ON first and Power circuit should be OFF first.

OBSERVATIONS:
S.No ma Va(V) Freq(Hz) Ia(A)

MODEL GRAPHS:

Vao1/(Vd/2)

1.278

1.0 Square wave

Over
modulation

linear

1.0 3.24 ma

fig1.Variation of phase voltage with ma

 voltage

Vrated

Freq

fig2. Variation of Volatge with frequency in V/f control technique

fig 3. Carrier wave and 3-Ф Reference waves

fig4 .Output voltages of the inverter in linear modulation

INFERENCES:
The following are observed from the experiment
1. As modulation index (ma) varied from 0 to 1, V/f is maintained constant
2. Beyond ma=1, Voltage is constant at Vrated, and frequency can be increased, thus Speed of
motor is increased above rated
3. At ma=3.24 , the phase voltages take the shape of square wave.