A Novel VSI- and CSI-Fed Active-Reactive Induction Motor Drive with Sinusoidal Voltages and Currents

Till date load-commutated inverter (LCI)-fed synchronous motor drive configuration is popular in high power applications (>10 MW). The leading power factor operation of synchronous motor by excitation control offers this simple and rugged drive structure. On the contrary, LCI-fed induction motor drive is absent as it always draws lagging power factor current. Therefore, complicated commutation circuit is required to switch off thyristors for a current source inverter (CSI)-driven induction motor. It poses the major hindrance to scale up the power rating of CSI-fed induction motor drive. Anew power topology for LCI-fed induction motor drive for medium-voltage drive application is proposed. A new induction machine (active-reactive induction machine) with two sets of three-phase winding is introduced as a drive motor. The proposed power configuration ensures sinusoidal voltage and current at the motor terminals. The total drive power is shared among a thyristor-based LCI, an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT)-based two-level voltage source inverter (VSI), and a three-level VSI. The benefits of SCRs and IGBTs are explored in the proposed drive. Experimental results from a prototype drive verify the basic concepts of the drive

Direct Torque Control Schemes for Split-Phase Induction Machine

In this paper, DTC (Direct Torque Control) algorithms for Split-phase Induction Machine (SPIM) are established. SPIM has two sets of three-phase stator windings, with a shift of thirty electrical degrees between them. The significant contributions of the present work are: a) Two new methods of DTC technique for SPIM are developed. They are called as Resultant Flux Control Method and Individual Flux Control Method. b) Advantages and disadvantages of both the methods are discussed. High torque ripple is a disadvantage for three-phase DTC. It is found that torque ripple in SPIM could be significantly reduced without increasing the switching frequency