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Motor Drives Part A: Inverter Basics


AEV 5040: Power Electronics for Electric Vehicles Term I, 2011

Synthesis of Low-Frequency AC: Basic Concept

Note the oset and amplitude limit! Extension of DC voltage synthesis


Instead of DC, get the switching cycle averaged voltage output to trace out a slow sinusoid; that is, synthesize a slowly varying sinusoidal voltage with each point on waveform being the average of several switching cycles. Frequency of sinusoid f1 << fS (2-3 orders of magnitude smaller). Valid for AC motor drives and UPS. Control voltage changes at f1 and is virtually constant or pseudo-DC (frozen) while rapid switching goes on. Earlier analysis is valid!

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Average Representa^on of the Switching Power-Pole

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Spectral Content
Harmonics in output

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Single-Phase Inverters (like UPS)


Averaged representa^on

2 legs for 1 inverter (1 UPS, interface to 1 supply); 3 legs for 3 AC motor drive, UPS Cap (part of LPF structure) needed for sensi^ve loads
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Similar current port arrangement as for DC drives

leg= bi-posi^onal switching power pole

Vcom =

Vd 2

Single Phase Inverter Waveforms


n is a hypothe^cal neutral!

vaN = vbN =
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Vd 2 Vd 2

+ van = + vbn =

Vd 2 Vd 2

vo 2 vo 2
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1 Inverters Voltages/Currents
Current lags voltage by pf angle Harmonics also present from switching ac^on

vo (t) = V0 sin 1t & io (t) = I 0 sin 1t 1

( )

PO = vo io = vd id (no switching losses) vo io V0 I o Vo Vo id = = sin 1t sin 1t 1 = 0.5 I o cos 1 0.5 I o cos 2 1t 1 Vd Vd Vd Vd

Id

id 2 (t )

DC component responsible for the average power transfer + large 2nd harmonic component
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Waveforms on next slide!

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Inverter Waveforms

Output pulsates at 2fS; ltering needed for sensi^ve loads


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3 Inverters (Synthesis of 3-phase voltages)


3 legs (6 pack) Averaged representa^on

3 load

van = Vph sin( 1t); vbn = Vph sin( 1t 120 0 );vcn = Vph sin( 1t 240 0 );
(Desired balanced 3 (averaged) voltages)

vaN = Vcom + van ; vbN = Vcom + vbn ; vcN = Vcom + vcn ;


(Switches include oset common-mode voltage!)
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Oset Voltage Suppression

vcom Vcom
Superposi^on

3i = 0; i = 0
Oset voltages do not appear across the load because they do not have an eect!
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Types of 3 Converters
Six-step Sine PWM SV-PWM
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