Levi, E, Jones, M, Dordevic, O and Darijevic, M (2016) Decoupled PWM Control of a Dual-Inverter Four-Level Five-Phase Drive. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 32 (5). pp. 3719-3730. ISSN 0885-8993

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Abstract

This paper studies pulse-width modulation (PWM) techniques suitable for a four-level five-phase open-end winding (OeW) drive. The drive comprises a five-phase induction machine, supplied using two two-level voltage source inverters (VSIs) with isolated and unequal dc-link voltages, in the ratio 2:1. A decoupled carrier based (CB) PWM modulation strategy, based on unequal voltage reference sharing between the two converters, is introduced in this paper. The stability of dc-link voltages in OeW drives is investigated next, using a novel analysis technique. Several modulation methods are analysed and the results show that application of the coupled pulse width modulation technique, with carriers having in-phase disposition (PD), leads to overcharging of the capacitor in the dc-link of the inverter intended to operate with the lower dc-link voltage. On the other hand, the proposed decoupled CB PWM scheme naturally eliminates the dc-link capacitor overcharging problem. These findings are verified experimentally, using open-loop V/f control. Two different decoupled CB modulation methods are compared and the best performing modulation method is selected and incorporated further into an OeW drive with field-oriented control (FOC). The presented steady state and transient experimental results demonstrate that the decoupled CB PWM technique is suitable for high performance variable speed drive applications.

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Uncontrolled Keywords:	0906 Electrical And Electronic Engineering
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
Divisions:	Electronics & Electrical Engineering (merged with Engineering 10 Aug 20)
Publisher:	IEEE
Date Deposited:	07 Jul 2016 10:13
Last Modified:	04 Sep 2021 12:44
DOI or ID number:	10.1109/TPEL.2016.2582703
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3854

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