Power quality improvement in switched reluctance motor drive using Vienna rectifier

Author

Rajesh, M. ; Singh, Bawa

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

This paper presents the power quality improvement in the midpoint converter based switched reluctance motor (SRM) drive using a Vienna rectifier. A conventional bridge rectifier with midpoint converter based SRM drive produces very high level of harmonics content and low power factor at ac mains. The proposed Vienna rectifier with midpoint converter fed SRM drive improves the power factor at ac mains with low current harmonics. It also provides constant de link voltage and balanced capacitor voltages. This SRM drive with input Vienna rectifier is modeled and its performance is simulated in Matlab/Simulink environment. Moreover, performance of Vienna rectifier is compared with a conventional bridge topology for SRM drive.

Keywords

mathematics computing; power supply quality; rectifiers; reluctance motor drives; Matlab-Simulink environment; SRM drive; Vienna rectifier; balanced capacitor voltages; bridge topology; constant DC link voltage; harmonics content; midpoint converter based switched reluctance motor drive; power quality improvement; switched reluctance motor drive; Bridge circuits; Capacitors; Reactive power; Rectifiers; Reluctance motors; Torque; Voltage control; Midpoint converter; PFC; Power quality; SRM; Vienna Rectifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power India Conference, 2012 IEEE Fifth

Conference_Location

Murthal

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0763-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PowerI.2012.6479580

Filename

6479580