Power semiconductor loss evaluation in voltage source IGBT converters for three-phase Induction Motor drives

Author

Edrington, C.S. ; Vodyakho, O. ; Steurer, M. ; Azongha, S. ; Fleming, F. ; Krishnamurthy, M.

Author_Institution

Center for Adv. Power Syst., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

7-10 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1434

Lastpage

1439

Abstract

This paper addresses the timely issues of power loss calculation methods in the most common voltage source three phase PWM converters (VSC). There are mainly two kinds of power semiconductor losses to be considered, the conduction losses and the switching losses. A reconfigurable Induction Motor (IM) drive is controlled by the conventional PWM and space vector PWM based methods. The power losses will be evaluated with the different control strategies and verified based on the test-bed using a control system rapid prototyping environment such as dSPACE.

Keywords

PWM power convertors; induction motor drives; insulated gate bipolar transistors; losses; power semiconductor devices; conduction losses; control strategy; control system rapid prototyping environment; power semiconductor loss evaluation; power semiconductor losses; space vector PWM; switching losses; test-bed; three phase PWM converters; three-phase induction motor drives; voltage source IGBT converters; Control systems; Induction motor drives; Induction motors; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Power conversion; Pulse width modulation converters; Space vector pulse width modulation; Switching loss; System testing; Voltage; Conduction Losses Power semiconductor losses; Reconfigurable induction motor drive; Switching Losses;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, 2009. VPPC '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Dearborn, MI

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2600-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2601-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VPPC.2009.5289502

Filename

5289502