Development and evaluation of control and power hardware for a line side PWM current source inverter

Author

Krischan, Klaus ; Wiltberger, Wilfried ; Muetze, Annette

Author_Institution

Graz Univ. of Technol., Graz, Austria

fYear

2013

fDate

2-6 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

Using PWM current source inverters in drive systems shows some advantages over voltage source inverters such as reduction of losses in the machine due to the lower harmonic content in the machine currents and better EMI behaviour. The paper presents the theoretical and experimental design of a line side PWM current source inverter. The work includes a comparative study of different power semiconductors together with the gate drive circuits as well as the development of the control system maintaining the line side current waveform and the commanded dc-link current.

Keywords

PWM invertors; electric drives; EMI behaviour; commanded dc-link current; control evaluation; control system; drive systems; harmonic content; line side PWM current source inverter; line side current waveform; losses reduction; machine currents; power hardware; power semiconductors; voltage source inverters; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Inverters; Logic gates; Schottky diodes; Silicon; Silicon carbide; Voltage measurement; Converter control; Current Source Inverter (CSI); JFET; Pulse Width Modulation (PWM); Silicon Carbide (SiC);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications (EPE), 2013 15th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lille

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPE.2013.6631876

Filename

6631876