Current status of multi-megawatt AC drives

Author

Wu, Bin ; Song, Ping Gang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ryerson Univ., Toronto, Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

438

Abstract

Multi-megawatt AC drives have been increasingly used in many industries to conserve electric energy, increase productivity and improve product quality. The paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of multi-megawatt AC drives developed by the world leading drive manufacturers. A variety of multilevel voltage source inverters (VSIs) and PWM current source inverters (CSIs) are analyzed. Advantages and drawbacks of these drives are highlighted. The paper provides a list of various multi-megawatt AC drives currently used in the field, where drive configurations, power ratings, semiconductor devices and manufacturers are summarized.

Keywords

AC motor drives; PWM invertors; electrical products industry; semiconductor devices; PWM current source inverters; drive manufacturers; electric energy conservation; multilevel voltage source inverters; multimegawatt AC drives; power ratings; product quality; semiconductor devices; Costs; Diodes; Manufacturing industries; Productivity; Pulp manufacturing; Pulse width modulation converters; Pulse width modulation inverters; Rectifiers; Topology; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Technology, 2004. IEEE ICIT '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8662-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIT.2004.1490330

Filename

1490330