Dynamic simulation of a switched reluctance motor drive on EMTDC/PSCAD software

Author

El-Samahy, I. ; Marei, M.I. ; El-Saadany, E.F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2277

Abstract

This paper presents a complete dynamic investigation of switched reluctance motor (SRM) drives. A 6/4 three phases reduced torque ripple SRM drive is simulated on electromagnetic transients and DC/power system computer-aided design (EMTDC/PSCAD) software. The motor is modeled using an analytical mode! that takes into consideration the nonlinearity of the machine. A control algorithm based on torque distribution function (TDF) is used for torque ripple minimization. A hysteresis current controller (HCC) is used to regulate the phase currents. The dynamic characteristics of SRM are revealed through the simulation results which represent waveforms for the phase currents, torque and speed of the motor.

Keywords

EMTP; control engineering computing; control nonlinearities; electric current control; electric machine CAD; electric machine analysis computing; machine control; power system CAD; reluctance motor drives; torque; PSCAD software; control algorithm; electromagnetic transients; hysteresis current controller; machine nonlinearity; phase currents waveform; power system computer-aided design; switched reluctance motor drive; torque distribution function; torque ripple minimization; Computational modeling; EMTDC; Hysteresis motors; PSCAD; Power system dynamics; Power system modeling; Power system simulation; Reluctance machines; Reluctance motors; Torque;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society General Meeting, 2005. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9157-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2005.1489219

Filename

1489219