• DocumentCode
    389972
  • Title

    Simulation of industrial AC drive system under fault conditions

  • Author

    Weatherford, Harry H. ; Brice, Charles W.

  • Author_Institution
    Georgetown Steel Co., SC, USA
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    9-13 Feb. 2003
  • Firstpage
    457
  • Abstract
    An industrial motor drive suffers from periodic failures of the DC link aluminum electrolytic capacitor bank. Simulations pinpoint likely causes, including problems with the design of the balancing resistors. Stress on the capacitor can be produced by faults in the inverter and by open-conductor faults in the balancing resistors.
  • Keywords
    capacitor storage; electrical faults; electrolytic capacitors; induction motor drives; invertors; resistors; steel industry; 13.8 kV; 1500 kVA; 1500 kW; 700 V; 950 V; DC link aluminum electrolytic capacitor bank; balancing resistors; capacitor stress; industrial AC drive system; industrial motor drive; inverter faults; open-conductor faults; periodic failures; steel industry; AC motors; Capacitors; Circuit faults; Inverters; Metals industry; Motor drives; Rectifiers; Resistors; Synchronous motors; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 2003. APEC '03. Eighteenth Annual IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Miami Beach, FL, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7768-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APEC.2003.1179253
  • Filename
    1179253