Homopolar Current’s Copper Losses Analysis for Different Modulations in Open-End Winding Five-Phase drives

Abstract

This work has been achieved within the framework of CE2I project. CE2I is co-financed by European Union with the financial support of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), French State and the French Region of Hauts-de-France.This paper analyses the copper losses due to the homopolar current of a five-phase open-end winding machine supplied by a 10-leg inverter and a single DC voltage source. This topology can have non-null high frequency homopolar current components that can increase the machine’s copper losses and result in overheating of the motor phase windings. Accordingly, different modulation strategies are compared with the goal of reducing the homopolar current and, consequently the resulting copper losses. The comparison study is achieved using Matlab/Simulink and a finite element model in order to evaluate these losses.European Regional Development Fund (ERDF