Emissions from Power Electronic Drives
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Emissions from Power Electronic DrivesC Christopoulos, J C Clare, K J Bradley, A DentonSchool of Electrical and Electronic EngineeringUniversity of NottinghamNottingham, NG7 2RD, UKTel: +44 115 951 5557, Fax: +44 115 951 5616,e-mail: christos.christopoulos@nottingham.ac.uk
1. IntroductionModern electronic drives are large complex systems consisting of a power supply withassociated transformer, filter, rectifier, dc-link, inverter and motor. The motor in turn may beconnected to a large mechanical load. The paper summarises results from a comprehensiveinvestigation of emissions (conducted and radiated) from electronic drives. Electromagneticcompatibility is now an important issue in design and since more than 60% of the world’senergy is used to drive motors it is important to characterise and predict the electromagneticemission behaviour of motor drive systems[1].
The objective of this work is to address the problem of emission from electronic drives anddevelop simplified predictive models which can be used for interactive design.
The investigation was pursued in four different but closely interrelated ways:-• By modelling the entire drive used an advanced CAD package (SABER)• By developing simplified models of the drive and implementing them in the time-domain• By developing simplified models of the drive and implementing them in thefrequency-domain• By detailed experimentation and testing
This combined approach offers an unparalleled opportunity to understand the underlyingemission mechanisms and therefore to construct efficient, physically meaningful designmodels. It was anticipated from the start of the investigation that this process could not becomplete for the radiated emissions and this turned out to be true. However, substantialprogress was made in all areas and for the case of conducted emission very powerful andefficient models were developed. Further details of this work may be found in [2-4].
2. Conducted EmissionsThe basic AC drive system used for modelling and testing consisted of a commercial 15 kWPWM, IGBT inverter drive. The supply was through a LISN. The drive had a built-indifferential mode filter consisting of line chokes and line-to-line capacitors placed before theinput rectifier. The configuration is depicted in Fig 1 and accords with the recommendationsof EN55011.
It was necessary to derive an improved model of the motor where in addition to the d-q axisdifferential equation representation, a high-frequency model consisting of a transmission linefor each phase was incorporated. A systematic procedure and measurements were used toobtain HF parameter values for actual motors. The power supply, motor cable and LISNwere represented in the normal way using lumped components and π-equivalent circuits. Forthe power circuit simple models were used where the IGBT and diodes were modelled bytime varying resistors to establish a specified value of dv/dt during turn-on and turn-off.
After extensive investigations using the SABER model and measurements we were able toidentify three modes of oscillation responsible for the conducted emissions. These were:-
• High-frequency common mode involving the dc link-cable/motor-straycapacitance to earth-dc link stray capacitance.• Low-frequency common mode involving the LISN-drive-motor-stray capacitanceto earth-LISN.• Differential mode between switched and unswitched output cable phases and dclink.
The paths of these modes are shown schematically in Fig 2. For each of these three modessimplified models were constructed and procedures for obtaining numerical values wereestablished. Extensive modelling and validation work was done to validate this approach.Typical results are shown in Fig 3ab. In (a) simulation results and in (b) simulated results forthree important signals are shown. The agreement is very good considering the complexityof the system studied. It is important to emphasise that the simplified models developed canbe implemented in the frequency domain and hence manipulated to predict conductedemissions using very simple circuit solvers. More details of this approach may be found in[3].
A similar approach was adopted for the study of DC drives. A comparison of measured andsimulated spectra for the LISN voltage is shown in Fig 4. As a result of our investigations ofDC drives we found that the LISN has a significant effect on conducted emission waveformsand spectra. This gave the impetus for work to eliminate the LISN from the measurementset-up but refer measurements to the standard 50 Ohm impedance. A normal RF voltageprobe spectrum analyser was used to measure the spectra of the common- and differential-mode excitation sources due to inverter switching. Line inductors for high-frequencyisolation are required for some of the tests but they are considerably cheaper and simplercompared to a LISN. Thevenin equivalent circuits are then derived for the common- anddifferential modes. The emissions for any defined supply impedance (including a LISN) canthen be determined. In this way testing can be done when a LISN is either unavailable,prohibitively expensive, or impractical to include in the supply. Further details may be foundin [4].