DEVELOPMENT OF A UNIPOLAR CONVERTER FOR VARIABLE RELUCTANCE MOTOR-DRIVES Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A new converter concept for driving the switched reluctance motor has been developed. This converter has only one switching device per phase, uses a unipolar dc supply, returns all the trapped energy to the source, and does not require bifilar windings; it is called a C-dump converter because the trapped energy is dumped in a capacitor and then returned to the dc source. The topology for several different C-dump converters is presented. In addition, the design and experimental results for a C-dump converter using a chopper to recover the energy dumped on the capacitor are presented. Copyright 1987 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

published proceedings

  • IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • EHSANI, M., BASS, J. T., MILLER, T., & STEIGERWALD, R. L.

citation count

  • 88

complete list of authors

  • EHSANI, M||BASS, JT||MILLER, TJE||STEIGERWALD, RL

publication date

  • May 1987