LECTURE 9INTRO TO POWER ELECTRONICS.ppt

SELF-COMMUTATION INVERTERS * SELF-COMMUTATION INVERTERS * Current source inverters and voltage source inverters are different from PWM inverters and have been used for a long time PWM inverters require more complex control circuitry and faster switching components than CSI and VSI SELF-COMMUTATION INVERTERS * SELF-COMMUTATION INVERTERS * In the current source inverter, a rectifier is connected to an inverter through a large series inductor LS The inductance of LS is sufficiently large that the dc current I constrained to be almost constant SELF-COMMUTATIION INVERTERS * The SCR current output waveform will be roughly a square wave since IS is constrained to be nearly constant The line-to-line voltage will be triangular It is easy to limit overcurrent conditions in this design, but the output voltage can swing widely in response to changes in load SINGLE-PHASE CURRENT SOURCE INVERTER * A single-phase CSI circuit with capacitor commutation is shown below SINGLE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER * In the voltage source inverter, a rectifier is connected to an inverter through a series inductor LS and a parallel capacitor C The capacitance of C is sufficiently large that the voltage is constrained to be almost constant SINGLE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER * The SCR line-to-line voltage output waveform will be roughly a square wave, since the voltage Vc is constrained to be nearly constant The output current flow will be approximately triangular SINGLE-PHASE VOLTAGE SOURCE INVERTER * Voltage variations are small in this circuit, but currents can vary wildly with variations in load, and overcurrent protection is difficult to implement The frequency of both current and voltage source inverters can be easily changed by changing the firing pulses on the gates of the SCRs, so both inverters can be used to drive ac motors at variable speeds LECTURE 9INTRO TO POWER ELECTRONICS ECE 370 Machines and Power * INVERTERS * Perhaps the most rapidly growing a