A Novel Active Front-End Impedance Source Inverter
Topology for Induction Motor Drives
Abstract: The mark-to-market research says on fast switching
solidstate semiconductor switch based power adjustable speed drives, induces very high voltage gradient on motor terminals. This in turn results in travelling wave effects and high ground currents. In order to tap the advantages of impedance source inverter in conjunction with Active Front End (AFE) of the input switching module, a modified topology of the former has been introduced in this paper. The input AFE output power has been bifurcated and applied to the impedance network of the Z- Source inverter. It produced smoother and smaller current or voltage maintained across the dc input of the inverter hence eliminated the need of a passive filter and results in lower Total Harmonic Distortion (THD). The simulation of the proposed power circuit has been done in MATLAB/Simulink and control unit was in PROTEUS Software. The design procedure of the proposed circuit has been elucidated and experimental validation was done.
Index terms Active Front End Inverter, Impedance Source Inverter,
Common Mode Voltage.
I. INTRODUCTION
Among the semiconductor based switching modules, IGBT
based modules gains popularity due the capability of high switching frequency, less switching losses and ability to cope with complex switching algorithms. The power connection to the motor leads to develop transients, dv/dt and it result in bearing damages, EMI concerns and hike in motor terminal voltage [1][12]. To reap the benefits of active filters, alternatively we can make use of active front-end inverter topology. Impedance source inverters are preferred to voltage source and current source inverters since it improves the voltage level of the input voltage of the inverter section. In addition, it gives lesser amount of output current and voltage spikes.
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