Reduced structure inverter fed electric motor drives: An attempt to improve the cost-effectiveness, the compactness and the reliability of hybrid propulsion systems

Author

Masmoudi, Ahmed

Author_Institution

Research Unit on Renewable Energies and Electric Vehicles (RELEV), University of Sfax, ENIS, BP W, 3038, Tunisia

fYear

2008

fDate

20-22 July 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

The paper deals with an approach to improve the cost-effectiveness, the compactness and the reliability of hybrid propulsion systems, in an attempt to enhance their capability to be competitive with the thermal propulsion systems. This could be achieved thanks to the substitution of the conventional three-leg inverters by reduced structure ones. Of particular interest are four-switch and three-switch-delta inverters. These could be suitably associated to brushless DC and induction motors. This paper develops this idea.

Keywords

Automotive engineering; Brushless motors; Electric motors; Engineering management; Hybrid electric vehicles; Induction motors; Inverters; Power engineering and energy; Power system reliability; Propulsion; Four-switch three-phase inverter; brushless motor; cost-effective; delta inverter; induction motor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Signals and Devices, 2008. IEEE SSD 2008. 5th International Multi-Conference on

Conference_Location

Amman

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2205-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2206-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSD.2008.4632771

Filename

4632771