Synchronous Switching of Non-Line-Start Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines between Inverter to Grid Drives

Ronggang Ni, Dianguo Xu, Frede Blaabjerg, Gaolin Wang, Kaiyuan Lu

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Abstract

Non-Line-Start Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines (NLSPMSMs) have no damping windings in the rotor and hence cannot start themselves directly to the grid. For ap-plications where a constant speed drive is preferred, NLSPMSMs are required to be driven by the grid. Therefore, inverter aided soft startup and soft stop of such kind of motors are necessary. In this paper, a modified method of switching NLSPMSMs from inverter to grid mode drives, which is named as “forward switching” is proposed by introducing an additional V/f control after phase tracking in order to achieve voltage magnitude tracking. Furthermore, the method of switching the NLSPMSMs from grid to inverter drives, which is named as backward switching is also proposed. No position sensors are used, and the extended ElectroMotive Force (EMF) based position sensorless control algorithm is adopted during inverter drive. Experiments on an 18.5 kW NLSPMSM prototype are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed methods.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 8th IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2016
Number of pages6
PublisherIEEE Press
Publication dateSept 2016
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-5090-0737-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2016
Event 8th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition: ECCE 2016 - Milwaukee, WI, United States
Duration: 18 Sept 201622 Sept 2016
http://www.ieee-ecce.org/

Conference

Conference 8th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Exposition
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMilwaukee, WI
Period18/09/201622/09/2016
SponsorIEEE, IEEE Industry Applications Society (IAS), IEEE Power Electronics and Industry Applications Societies (PELS)
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Keywords

  • Non-line-start permanent magnet synchronous machine (NLSPMSM)
  • Position sensorless control
  • Soft start/stop
  • Synchronous switching

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