A high performance 100 kVA four quadrant drive test-bed

Author

le Roux, A.D. ; Frosch, M. ; Enslin, JHR

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Stellenbosch Univ., South Africa

Volume

1

fYear

1996

fDate

24-27 Sep 1996

Firstpage

462

Abstract

This paper describes the implementation of a DC motor/synchronous motor drive test-bed. The system consists of a 3.3 kV DC motor and the synchronous motor of the motor-alternator set (MA-set) of a Class 6E locomotive. The synchronous motor is controlled by a back to back AC-DC-AC hard switched power converter with a sustained rating of 50 kVA and a peak rating or 100 kVA. The power converter is controlled by an Intel 87 KC196 microcontroller and hardware-implemented current regulators. The system was developed to provide a facility for the testing of motor drives. In the current set-up, the system is used to simulate a load of high inertia for the 3.3 kV DC motor drive used by a traction system project

Keywords

AC-AC power convertors; DC motor drives; automatic test equipment; electric locomotives; machine testing; synchronous motor drives; traction motor drives; 100 kVA; 3.3 kV; 50 kVA; AC-DC-AC hard switched power converter; Class 6E electric locomotive; DC motor drive; Intel 87 KC196 microcontroller; four quadrant drive test-bed; motor-alternator set; synchronous motor drive; traction system; Africa; Control systems; Current control; Hardware; Inverters; Radio control; Rectifiers; Regulators; Synchronous motors; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AFRICON, 1996., IEEE AFRICON 4th

Conference_Location

Stellenbosch

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3019-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AFRCON.1996.563157

Filename

563157