Development of a 1.2MVA active front end using parallel industrial units

Author

Godbersen, J. ; Godbersen, Jens

Author_Institution

Danfoss Drives A/S, Graasten

fYear

2007

fDate

2-5 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Danfoss Drives A/S has developed a 1.2 MVA Active Front End (AFE). The purpose with this development was to realize a high power AFE as a study object. Secondly the AFE was integrated into a new dynamometer and engaged in testing of high power motor inverters in an engineering laboratory environment. The AFE was used to supply power to a 1500 HP adjustable speed drive used for the dynamometer. The development was made with tight constraints: A limited time frame was available, and the design chosen must assure immediate successful operation. The scope of this paper is to present some of the considerations done during the design phase and to present the achieved system performance of the final system.

Keywords

dynamometers; motor drives; power convertors; Danfoss drives; active front end; adjustable speed drive; apparent power 1.2 MVA; dynamometer; high power AFE; high power motor inverters; parallel industrial units; Damping; Diodes; Power harmonic filters; Power system harmonics; Rectifiers; Resistors; Resonance; Sensor systems; Uniform resource locators; Variable speed drives; Industrial application; Parallel operation; Regenerative power; Voltage Source Converter (VSC);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications, 2007 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-92-75815-10-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-92-75815-10-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPE.2007.4417239

Filename

4417239