DISCONTINUOUS PWM TECHNIQUES FOR OPEN-END

WINDING INDUCTION MOTOR DRIVE FOR ZERO

SEQUENCE VOLTAGE ELIMINATION

Abstract In now a days modern multi level inverters have emerged to overcome the
drawbacks due to the conventional inverters. In various industries inverters with different
PWM techniques have been employed to .achieve good performance in the context of variable
speed drives. But in the conventional inverter instantaneous sum of all the phase voltages is not
equal to zero this results into zero sequence voltages in inverters. This zero sequence voltages
will induce bearing currents inside the motor. If these currents exceed some permissible limits
premature failure of motor bearings will occur. These are some drawbacks due to the usage of
conventional inverters in industries. In this paper the techniques to overcome the drawbacks
due to conventional inverter have been presented. The cascaded connection of asynchronous
motor and two 2- level inverters at both ends of motor constitutes to open end winding
induction motor drive. The characteristics of dual inverter fed open end winding induction
motor drive resembles to those of conventional three level inverter . In this paper the
performance characteristics of Induction motor with different PWM techniques like SPWM,
CSVPWM,DPWMMAX, DPWMMIN have been analysed and the harmonic analysis has been
carried out using MATLAB/SIMULINK environment.
Induction motors are the most widely used electrical motors of alternating current
in both household and industrial applications. About 65-70% of all electric
energy is consumed by electric motors (Machowski et al., 2011; OBrien et
al., 2012), and over 90% of them are induction motors (Machowski et al., 2011;
Sumper and Baggini, 2012). They are essential elements in any power system.
The majority of modern devices using induction motors as drives operate
under various loads. For example, a constant load occurs in hoists, lifts, cranes,
but drills, boring machines, conveyors operates under dry friction load. A rapid
change of load allows one to increase productivity of the motor, but at the same
time it may lead to the different undesirable effects such as motor stopping, motor
vibrations, damage or failure of the device itself. By this reason the investigation
of induction motor operation under sudden changes of load is an actual and
practically important problem.
In the study of induction motors it is important to develop mathematical
models, which adequately describe their dynamics. In this context the following
two utterances are of interest from the viewpoint of mathematical modeling of induction
motors. In the book "Feedback control systems: analysis, synthesis, and
design" its authors Gille, Pelegrin, and Decaulne write (Gille-Maisani et al., 1959):
"Contrary to what is sometimes thought, the derivation or writing of the system equations
is more important than the study of the equations themselves. Indeed, experience
shows that the majority of errors arise from inexact equations rather than from faulty
solutions. In addition, the equations, once written, can be solved and studied through
the use of a computer, but no calculating machine can write the equations of the system
under study." The second utterance of Slemon in his book "Electric machines and
drivers" (Slemon, 1992) is: "Use of a purely mathematical approach without adequate
attention to the physical model can frequently lead to serious error. Modeling is an art
which will develop as knowledge and experience grow." Therefore, it is necessary to
construct mathematical models of induction motors that are consistent with the
real motors.