Iron loss under practical working conditions of a PWM powered induction motor

A study of additional loss in an induction motor supplied by a PWM inverter is presented in this paper. The magnetic material used in the motor is characterized, thanks to a suitable Epstein measurement equipment, under several excitation conditions: sine and ideal PWM waveforms similar to the volta...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on magnetics 1997-09, Vol.33 (5), p.3766-3768
Main Authors: Cester, C., Kedous-Lebouc, A., Cornut, B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Employee welfare
Frequency
Induction motors
Iron
Magnetic materials
Pulse inverters
Pulse width modulation
Pulse width modulation inverters
Stators
Voltage
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Summary:A study of additional loss in an induction motor supplied by a PWM inverter is presented in this paper. The magnetic material used in the motor is characterized, thanks to a suitable Epstein measurement equipment, under several excitation conditions: sine and ideal PWM waveforms similar to the voltage delivered by the inverter and practical working conditions of the material, measured in the different parts of the machine stator. Compared to sine, PWM signals induce much higher loss. Moreover, the distortion of the flux increases the additional loss. Those results are used to estimate the loss in the stator of the machine. By considering the real working conditions of the magnetic material, the discrepancy between the estimated value and experiment is less than 25% for the motor studied, whereas it can reach 120% in the case of a conventional prediction with a sinusoidal waveform.
ISSN:0018-9464
1941-0069
DOI:10.1109/20.619565