DEVELOPMENT OF A UNIPOLAR CONVERTER FOR VARIABLE RELUCTANCE MOTOR-DRIVES
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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.