Power Quality Improvement of PMBLDCM Driven Air-Conditioner Using a Single-Stage PFC Boost Bridge Converter

Author

Singh, Sanjeev ; Singh, Bhim

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Indian Inst. of Technol. Delhi, New Delhi, India

fYear

2009

fDate

18-20 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper aims at a boost bridge DC-DC converter as a single-stage power factor correction (PFC) converter for a permanent magnet brushless DC motor (PMBLDCM) driven air conditioner. This PFC converter is fed from a single-phase AC mains through a diode bridge rectifier (DBR) and connected to a voltage source inverter (VSI) feeding the PMBLDCM. The proposed PFC boost bridge converter based PMBLDCM drive is controlled for its variable speed operation to improve efficiency of the air conditioning system. The control scheme for the PFC converter based PMBLDCM drive is designed, modeled and its simulation is carried out in Matlab-Simulink environment for an air conditioner compressor driven through a 3.75 kW, 1500 rpm PMBLDC motor. The obtained results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed PFC converter based adjustable speed drive in wide range of the speed and an AC input voltage.

Keywords

DC-DC power convertors; air conditioning; bridge circuits; brushless DC motors; invertors; permanent magnet motors; power factor correction; power supply quality; rectifiers; variable speed drives; Matlab-Simulink; adjustable speed drives; air-conditioner; boost bridge DC-DC converter; diode bridge rectifier; permanent magnet brushless DC motor; power 3.75 kW; power factor correction; power quality improvement; variable speed operation; voltage source inverter; Bridge circuits; Brushless DC motors; DC-DC power converters; Diodes; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Inverters; Power factor correction; Power quality; Rectifiers; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

India Conference (INDICON), 2009 Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Gujarat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4858-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4859-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDCON.2009.5409475

Filename

5409475