A Dual Two-Level Inverter Scheme with Common Mode Voltage Elimination for an Induction Motor Drive

Baiju, MR and Mohapatra, KK and Kanchan, RS and Gopakumar, K (2004) A Dual Two-Level Inverter Scheme with Common Mode Voltage Elimination for an Induction Motor Drive. In: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 19 (3). 794 -805.

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Abstract

Pulse-width modulated (PWM) inverters are known to generate common mode voltages which cause motor bearing currents in the induction motor drives. They also result in leakage currents which act as sources of conducted electromagnetic interference in the drive system. The common mode voltage generated by a conventional three-level inverter can be eliminated by switching only the voltage space vectors which do not produce the common mode voltage. This paper presents a PWM switching strategy to eliminate common mode voltage using the open-end winding configuration for the induction motor. The switching strategy presented in this paper, does not generate any alternating common mode voltages in the drive system and hence the electrostatic coupling of the common mode voltage, which results in the bearing currents and the leakage currents, is avoided. The proposed scheme is devoid of neutral point voltage fluctuations and does not require neutral point clamping diodes, when compared to the common mode elimination scheme based on the conventional three-level inverter topology. Also, the present scheme uses a single dc-link with half the voltage compared to the conventional three-level inverter based scheme.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Publisher:	IEEE
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Keywords:	Common mode voltage;Open-end winding;Induction motor drive
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electronic Systems Engineering (Formerly Centre for Electronic Design & Technology)
Date Deposited:	28 Nov 2005
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:21
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/4204

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