Power electronic converters for switched reluctance drives

In recent years, considerable attention has been given to find the compact and low cost power converter topology for Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) drive to meet the emerging applications such as plotters, fans, pumps, screw rotary compressor drives, high speed application drives above 30,000 RPM. This paper is concerned with such as attempt to formulate a new compact power converter for SRM drive. The proposed power converter has reduced number of power electronic components which makes the converter compact and also reduce the switching losses. The power factor plays a vital issue in the usage of power electronic converters. The power boost converter and PI controller. A Simulink system is developed for 3Φ SRM by using MATLAB software. The proposed converter performance is compared with the classical converter and analysis results are presented.<strong> </strong>

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A Review of the Power Converter Interfaces for Switched Reluctance Machines

Energies ◽

10.3390/en13133490 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (13) ◽

pp. 3490

Author(s):

Vitor Fernão Pires ◽

Armando José Pires ◽

Armando Cordeiro ◽

Daniel Foito

Keyword(s):

Failure Modes ◽

Fault Tolerant ◽

Control Strategies ◽

Research Work ◽

Power Converter ◽

Future Research ◽

Power Electronic ◽

Power Electronic Converters ◽

Switched Reluctance ◽

Switched Reluctance Machines

The use of power electronic converters is essential for the operation of Switched Reluctance Machines (SRMs). Many topologies and structures have been developed over the last years considering several specific applications for this kind of machine, improving the control strategies, performance range, fault-tolerant operation, among other aspects. Thus, due to the great importance of power electronic converters in such applications, this paper is focused on a detailed review of main structures and topologies for SRM drives. The proposed study is not limited to the classic two-level power converters topologies dedicated to the SRMs; it also presents a review about recent approaches, such as multilevel topologies and based on impedance source network. Moreover, this review is also focused on a new class of topologies associated to these machines, namely the ones with fault-tolerant capability. This new category of topologies has been a topic of research in recent years, being currently considered an area of great interest for future research work. An analysis, taking into consideration the main features of each structure and topology, was addressed in this review. A classification and comparison of the several structures and topologies for each kind of converter, considering modularity, boost capability, number of necessary switches and phases, integration in the machine design, control complexity, available voltage levels and fault-tolerant capability to different failure modes, is also presented. In this way, this review also includes a description of the presented solutions taking into consideration the reliability of the SRM drive.

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