PMBLDC motor drive with Power Factor correction controller

Author

George, Gishin Jacob ; Rakesh, R. ; Arun, N.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., VIT Univ., Vellore, India

fYear

2012

fDate

21-22 March 2012

Firstpage

63

Lastpage

68

Abstract

This paper presents a boost converter configuration, control scheme and design of single phase power factor controller for permanent magnet brushless DC motor (PMBLDCM) drive. PMBLDC motors are the latest choice of researchers, due to the high efficiency, silent operation, compact size, high reliability, and low maintenance requirements. The proposed Power Factor Controller topology improves power quality by improving performance of PMBLDCM drive, such as reduction of AC main current harmonics, near unity power factor. PFC converter forces the drive to draw sinusoidal supply current in phase with supply voltage. It uses a boost converter to obtain unity power factor with improved performance. The system includes a speed controller for PMBLDC drive and a voltage controller for boost converter. The voltage or speed controllers can be realized using proportional integral (PI) controller. Simulations are done using MATLAB/ SIMULINK software.

Keywords

DC motor drives; PI control; angular velocity control; brushless DC motors; machine control; permanent magnet motors; power convertors; power factor correction; power system harmonics; topology; voltage control; AC main current harmonics reduction; Matlab-Simulink software; PFC converter; PI controller; PMBLDC motor drive; boost converter configuration; compact size; low maintenance requirements; near unity power factor; permanent magnet brushless DC motor drive; power factor correction controller topology; power quality; proportional integral controller; single phase power factor controller; sinusoidal supply current; speed controller; voltage controller; Commutation; DC motors; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Instruments; Pulse width modulation; Switches; Topology; Boost Converter; PMBLDC Motor; Power factor correction; Speed Controller; VSI; Voltage Controller;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing, Electronics and Electrical Technologies (ICCEET), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kumaracoil

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0211-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCEET.2012.6203872

Filename

6203872