Three-Phase Inverter
Bassam A. Hemade
    TA. Power System & Electrical Machines
Lecture Outline:
1.   The Six-Step Inverter
2.   PWM Three-Phase Inverter
3.   Induction Motor Speed Control
4.   Induction Motor Speed Control Inverter
The six Steps Inverter
• Next figure shows a circuit that produces
  a three-phase ac output from a dc input. A
  major application of this circuit is speed
  control of induction motors, where the
  output frequency is varied.
The six Steps Inverter cont’d
• The switches are closed and
  opened in the sequence shown in
  next figure.
• Each switch has a duty ratio of
  50 percent (not allowing for
  blanking time), and a switching
  action takes place every T/6 time
  interval, or 60 angle interval.
            S1  S4
            S2  S5
            S3  S6
The six Steps Inverter cont’d
• With this scheme, the
  instantaneous voltages vA0, vB0,
  and vC0 are Vdc or zero, and
  line-to-line output voltages vAB,
  vBC, and vCA are Vdc, 0, or Vdc
The six Steps Inverter cont’d
The six Steps Inverter cont’d
• For an input voltage of Vdc, the output for an ungrounded wye-
  connected load has the following Fourier coefficients
  • The output frequency can be controlled by changing the switching
    frequency. The magnitude of the output voltage depends on the value
    of the dc supply voltage. To control the output voltage of the six-step
    inverter, the dc input voltage must be adjusted.
Example
• For the six-step three-phase inverter, the
  dc input is 100 V and the fundamental
  output frequency is 60 Hz. The load is
  wye-connected with each phase of the
  load a series RL connection with R = 10
  Ω and L = 20 mH. Determine the total
  harmonic distortion of the load current.
Example cont’d
• Solution:
   a) The amplitude of load current at each frequency is:
   b) where Vn,L-N is determined as:
Example cont’d
 c) The THD of the load current is computed as follows:
PWM Three-Phase Inverter
• Pulse-width modulation can be used for three-phase
  inverters as well as for single-phase inverters.
• Basically, each switch is controlled by comparing a
  sinusoidal reference wave with a triangular carrier
  wave.
• The fundamental frequency of the output is the same
  as that of the reference wave, and the amplitude of
  the output is determined by the relative amplitudes of
  the reference and carrier waves.
• 120o apart, when one switch in a pair is closed, the
  other is open. Each pair of switches requires a
  separate sinusoidal reference wave.
PWM Three-Phase Inverter cont’d
PWM Three-Phase Inverter cont’d
Induction Motor Speed Control
• The speed of an induction motor can be
  controlled by adjusting the frequency of
  the applied voltage. The synchronous
  speed ωs of an induction motor is related
  to the number of poles p and the applied
  electrical frequency by:
• Slip s, is defined in terms of the rotor
  speed ωr
Induction Motor Speed Control cont’d
• If the applied electrical frequency is
  changed, the motor speed will change
  proportionally. However, if the applied
  voltage is held constant when the
  frequency is lowered, the magnetic flux
  in the air gap will increase to the point of
  saturation. It is desirable to keep the air-
  gap flux constant and equal to its rated
  value.
• This is accomplished by varying the
  applied voltage proportionally with
  frequency. The ratio of applied voltage
  to applied frequency should be constant.
Induction Motor Speed Control cont’d
Induction Motor Speed Control Iverter