Abstract

At the end of the last century asynchronous motors with a phase rotor were most widely used among adjustable-speed AC drives. They were used for conveyors, transporters, cranes. That was due to the relative simplicity to adjust the motor speed by acting on the rotor chain. The introduction of a frequency control method in such drives is now complicated by the fact that most frequency converters are designed to be used in drives with a cage asynchronous motor. Shorting of a phase winding leads to highly increased losses during acceleration and motor speed control. If the stator winding of a wound-rotor asynchronous motor is connected to a frequency converter and the rotor winding is connected to a DC link of this converter, the motor will have properties of a synchronous one. The electric drive is able to work in a wide range, while motor characteristics are absolutely rigid. The implementation of such control method is presented in this article. The control system operation has been tested with simulation in the Matlab Simulink software pack. The obtained results are defined as follows.

Highlights

  • There is a number of production mechanisms that require control systems to obtain absolutely rigid performance characteristics and a wide range of speed control

  • Since DC flows through the rotor windings of the motor and the rotor speed of the motor does not depend on the load on the shaft, which is typical for a synchronous machine, the wound-rotor asynchronous motor operating in such mode is called synchronized [3]

  • The synchronous mode of the motor has among others one advantage over the asynchronous mode which is the ability of the motor to change the magnitude and mark of the reactive power when adjusting the magnitude of the excitation current [4]

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Summary

Introduction

There is a number of production mechanisms that require control systems to obtain absolutely rigid performance characteristics and a wide range of speed control. In such mechanisms it is advisable to use a synchronized electric drive based on a wound-rotor asynchronous motor [1,2]. With direct connection of the stator winding to the supply mains providing motor overexcitation, reactive power is supplied to the supply mains network and, if underexcited, is consumed from the network, there is a fundamental possibility of influencing the energy exchange process between the motor and the power supply system by controlling the excitation current of powerful synchronized asynchronous motors [5]

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