3 level GTO converter-inverter pair system for large capacity induction motor drive

Author

Tamai, S. ; Koyama, M. ; Fujii, T. ; Mizoguchi, S. ; Kawabata, T.

Author_Institution

Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1993

fDate

13-16 Sep 1993

Firstpage

45

Abstract

A 3 level converter-inverter pair system for large capacity induction motor drives is proposed. A new PWM method for the 3 level converter and inverter based on the space voltage vector is proposed. The experimental results clarify that the PWM method can minimize the harmonic components of the output voltage and current under the minimum pulse width limitation of the GTO´s and suppress the fluctuation of the neutral point DC voltage. Loss factor σ is calculated to analyze current distortion of the synchronous PWM method for 3 level converter. The characteristics of the converter-inverter pair system are confirmed by IGBT test equipment. A high performance 4000 kVA GTO converter-inverter pair system is made to drive an induction motor

Keywords

electric drives; induction motors; insulated gate bipolar transistors; invertors; power convertors; power transistors; pulse width modulation; thyristor applications; 4000 kVA; GTO; IGBT; PWM; current distortion; harmonic; induction motor drive; invertors; neutral point DC voltage; output current; output voltage; power convertors; space voltage vector; three level;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications, 1993., Fifth European Conference on

Conference_Location

Brighton

Type

conf

Filename

265140