S.S.Deswal et. al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Vol. 2(6), 2010, 2445-2455 IMPROVED PERFORMANCE OF AN ADJUSTABLE SPEED DRIVES DURING VOLTAGE SAG CONDITION S.S.DESWAL* Assistant Professor, EEE Department, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology, Sector-22, Rohini, Delhi-110086, India satvirdeswal@hotmail.com RATNA DAHIYA Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT,Kurukshetra, kurukshetra, Haryana-136119, India ratna_dahiya@yahoo.co.in D.K.JAIN Director(Technical), Guru Premsukh Memorial College of Engineering, Budhpur, Delhi-110036, India jaindk66@gmail.com Abstract: Voltage sags normally do not cause equipment damage but can easily disrupt the operation of sensitive loads such as electronic Adjustable Speed Drives (ASD’s). Voltage sags cause a momentary decrease in DC-link voltage triggering an under voltage trip leading to nuisance tripping of adjustable speed drives (ASD’s) employed in continuous-process industries which contributes to loss in revenue. A practical ride-through scheme for an adjustable speed drives based on supercapacitor during voltage sag has been presented in this paper. The supercapacitor maintains the ASD dc bus voltage under voltage sag condition. Energy storage module is connected to support the DC-link voltage during power system faults. The performance of ASD’s under normal and power system faults is first simulated in MATLab Simulink and then experimentally verified. The Data AcQuisition boards (DAQ) of National Instruments along with LabVIEW software have been used to record the observed waveforms. Keywords : Adjustable speed drives, Low voltage ride-through capability, Voltage sags, Supercapacitor, Ultracapacitor. 1. Introduction Adjustable Speed Drives (ASD’s) used in a wide variety of industrial applications. The benefits that might be provided by the ASD’s are the reason for their widespread use by the industry. Despite of its importance to the process operation, the ASD’s are sensitive to voltage sags. Undervoltage and overcurrent often follow voltage sags which may cause the ASD’s to trip bringing about the halt of the productive process and revenue losses. The ASD’s may also operate inappropriately resulting on load torque and load speed variations since the control of the current and of the output voltage are dependent on the inverter DC voltage level which decays during voltage sag [1], as shown in eqn(1). V dcC d V dc T L r dt m o t i n v (1) Thus, the decrease rate of the dc bus voltage dVdc/dt depends on the capacitance C, the voltage Vdc across the capacitor at the beginning of the voltage sag, the load torque TL, the motor speed ωr, the motor efficiency ηmot . Different approaches to improve the ASD’s ride through by increasing the average voltage of the DC-link have been proposed [1], [5], [6], [7], [8]. The methods include the addition of capacitors to the DC- link [6], the regenerative mitigation which converts the kinetic energy from the motor and load into electric energy transferring it to the ASD’s DC-link [1], the connection of the neutral conductor of the supply source to the midpoint of the DC-link through a controlled switch [8], and the application of boost converters [1], [5], [7]. ISSN: 0975-5462 2445 S.S.Deswal et. al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Vol. 2(6), 2010, 2445-2455 This paper presents a proposed topology to improve the low voltage ride-through capability of an adjustable speed drive via experimental and simulation results. The system is tested under symmetrical and asymmetrical voltage sag conditions in order to assess the contribution of the supercapacitor as an energy storage device to improve the ASD’s operation under voltage sags. The typical duration of voltage sags are between 0.5 to 30 cycles or 8ms to 0.5s. Voltage sags, classified as type A, are the most severe ones as they cause the larger amount of energy withdraw from the dc bus, and are more likely to trip the ASD’s under voltage protection. The asymmetric voltage sags usually have at least one line supply voltage which keeps the DC-link voltage above the under voltage protection level. Nevertheless, voltage sag type A is the least severe as far as the over current level is concerned. On the other hand, voltage sags type B, caused by one-phase faults, are accountable for the most severe sags as far as over current are concerned and the least severe as for the dc bus under voltage threshold level [5], [10]. It has been withdrawn from [5] that tests with voltage sag type A can set the under voltage protection level and tests with voltage sag type B can set the over current protection level of an ASD’s.[11-12] 2. Energy Storage Systems Energy storage systems, also known as restoring technologies are used to provide the electric loads with ridethrough capability in poor Power Quality (PQ) environment. Recent technological advances in power electronics and storage technologies are turning the restoring technologies one of the premium solutions to mitigate PQ problems. The first energy storage technology used in the field of PQ, yet the most used today, is electrochemical battery. Although new technologies, such as flywheels, supercapacitors and superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) present many advantages, electrochemical batteries still rule due to their low price and mature technology.[8-9,13-14] 2.1. Flywheels A flywheel is an electromechanical device that couples a rotating electric machine (motor/generator) with a rotating mass to store energy for short durations. The motor/generator draws power provided by the grid to keep the rotor of the flywheel spinning. During a power disturbance, the kinetic energy stored in the rotor is transformed to DC electric energy by the generator, and the energy is delivered at a constant frequency and voltage through an inverter and a control system. Traditional flywheel rotors are usually constructed of steel and are limited to a spin rate of a few thousand revolutions per minute (RPM). Advanced flywheels constructed from carbon fiber materials and magnetic bearings can spin in vacuum at speeds up to 40,000 to 60,000 RPM. The stored energy is proportional to the moment of inertia and to the square of the rotational speed. High speed flywheels can store much more energy than the conventional flywheels. The flywheel provides power during a period between the loss of utility supplied power and either the return of utility power or the start of a back-up power system (i.e., diesel generator). Flywheels typically provide 1-100 seconds of ride-through time, and backup generators are able to get online within 5-20 seconds.[9,15-16] 2.2. Supercapacitors Supercapacitors (also known as ultracapacitors) are DC energy sources and must be interfaced to the electric grid with a static power conditioner, providing energy output at the grid frequency. A supercapacitor provides power during short duration interruptions or voltage sags. Medium size supercapacitors (1 MJoule) are commercially available to implement ride-through capability in small electronic equipment. 2.3. SMES A magnetic field is created by circulating a DC current in a closed coil of superconducting wire. The path of the coil circulating current can be opened with a solid-state switch, which is modulated on and off. Due to the high inductance of the coil, when the switch is off (open), the magnetic coil behaves as a current source and will force current into the power converter which will charge to some voltage level. Proper modulation of the solidstate switch can hold the voltage within the proper operating range of the inverter, which converts the DC voltage into AC power. Low temperature SMES cooled by liquid helium is commercially available. High temperature SMES cooled by liquid nitrogen is still in the development stage and may become a viable commercial energy storage source in the future due to its potentially lower costs. SMES systems are large and generally used for short durations, such as utility switching events. The high speed flywheel is in about the same cost range as the SMES and supercapacitors and about 5 times more expensive than a low speed flywheel due to its more complicated design and limited power rating. Electrochemical battery has a high degree of mature and a simple design. Below a storage time of 25 seconds the low speed flywheel can be more cost effective than the battery. Table 1, shows a comparison of the different storage technology in terms of specific power and specific energy. [3] Table-I Comparison of different ASD’s Ride-through Alternatives ISSN: 0975-5462 2446 S.S.Deswal et. al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Vol. 2(6), 2010, 2445-2455 Besides energy storage systems, some other devices may be used to solve PQ problems. Using proper interface devices, one can isolate the loads from disturbances deriving from the grid. 2.4. DVR ASD Ride- Through Alternatives Cost Rs/KW Ride-Through Duration Limit Power Range Efficiency Cycle Life Charging Time Additional Capacitors* 30000 0.1sec. 100kw 95% 10000 Seconds Load Inertia ≈0 2.0 sec. 1kw-1mw --- --- Continues Reduced Speed/Load ≈0 0.01 sec. 5-10kw --- --- --- Lower Voltage Motors* ≈0 0.01 sec. 5-10kw --- --- --- Boost Converter** 500010000 5.0 sec. 5-200kw 90% --- --- Active Rectifier** 500010000 5.0 sec. 5-200kw --- --- --- Battery Backup* 500010000 5.0 sec.,1hr. 5kw-1MW 70-90% 2000 Hours Ultra Capacitors* 1500020000 5.0 sec. 5-100kw 90% 10000 Seconds Motor-Generator Sets* 1000015000 15.0 sec. 100kw 70% --- --- FlyWheels* 1000015000 15.0 sec.,1hr. 1kw10MW 90% 10000 Minutes SMES* 3000040000 10.0 sec. 3001000KW 95% 10000 Minuteshours Fuel Cells* 75000 1 hr. 10kw2MW 40-50% continues continues * provides Full-power ride-through ** provide full-power ride-through for single-phase sags<50% A dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) acts like a voltage source connected in series with the load. The output voltage of the DVR is kept approximately constant voltage at the load terminals by using a step-up transformer and/or stored energy to inject active and reactive power in the output supply trough a voltage converter. [17-18] 2.5. TVSS Transient voltage surge suppressors are used as interface between the power source and sensitive loads, so that the transient voltage is clamped by the TVSS before it reaches the load. TVSSs usually contain a component with a nonlinear resistance (a metal oxide varistor or a zener diode) that limits excessive line voltage and conduct any excess impulse energy to ground. [19-20] 2.6. CVT Constant voltage transformers (CVT) were one of the first PQ solutions used to mitigate the effects of voltage sags and transients. To maintain the voltage constant, they use two principles that are normally avoided: resonance and core saturation. When the resonance occurs, the current will increase to a point that causes the saturation of the magnetic core of the transformer. If the magnetic core is saturated, then the magnetic flux will remain roughly constant and the transformer will produce an approximately constant voltage output. If not properly used, a CVT will originate more PQ problems than the ones mitigated. It can produce transients, harmonics (voltage wave clipped on the top and sides) and it is inefficient (about 80% at full load). Its application is becoming uncommon due to technological advances in other areas. 2.7. Noise filters Noise filters are used to avoid unwanted frequency current or voltage signals (noise) from reaching sensitive equipment. This can be accomplished by using a combination of capacitors and inductances that creates a low impedance path to the fundamental frequency and high impedance to higher frequencies, that is, a low-pass ISSN: 0975-5462 2447 S.S.Deswal et. al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Vol. 2(6), 2010, 2445-2455 filter. They should be used when noise with frequency in the kHz range is considerable. 2.8. Isolation transformers Isolation transformers are used to isolate sensitive loads from transients and noise deriving from the mains. In some cases (Delta-Wye connection) isolation transformers keep harmonic currents generated by loads from getting upstream the transformer. The particularity of isolation transformers is a grounded shield made of nonmagnetic foil located between the primary and the secondary. Any noise or transient that come from the source in transmitted through the capacitance between the primary and the shield and on to the ground and does not reach the load. 2.9. SVR Static VAR compensators (SVR) use a combination of capacitors and reactors to regulate the voltage quickly. Solid-state switches control the insertion of the capacitors and reactors at the right magnitude to prevent the voltage from fluctuating. The main application of SVR is the voltage regulation in high voltage and the elimination of flicker caused by large loads (such as induction furnaces). 2.10. Harmonic filters Harmonic filters are used to reduce undesirable harmonics. They can be divided in two groups: passive filters and active filters. Passive filters consist in a low impedance path to the frequencies of the harmonics to be attenuated using passive components (inductors, capacitors and resistors). Several passive filters connected in parallel may be necessary to eliminate several harmonic components. If the system varies (change of harmonic components), passive filters may become ineffective and cause resonance. Active filters analyze the current consumed by the load and create a current that cancel the harmonic current generated by the loads. Active filters were expensive in the past, but they are now becoming cost effective compensating for unknown or changing harmonics. [19-20] 3. Proposed Ride-through topology Accordingly, it may be appreciated that a need has arisen for method and system for ride-through of an adjustable speed drive during voltage sags. The proposed topology uses capacitors/ battery/ supercapacitor as a ride-through alternative for an adjustable speed drives during voltage sag s. The supercapacitors, however, provides various technical advantages over existing ones such as the fast control and low cost, due to minimal additional hardware and control. Additionally, the proposed modification can be easily integrated into a standard adjustable speed drive. The proposed ride-through topology is shown in Fig.1. Fig. 1. Topology based on designed hardware 5.1. Hardware Description ISSN: 0975-5462 2448 S.S.Deswal et. al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Vol. 2(6), 2010, 2445-2455 Fig 2 shows the designed hardware used to study the improved performance of an ASD’s. The ASD’s is a direct torque controlled (DTC) induction motor (specifications are given in Appendix) and is having an integrated battery /capacitor bank / Supercapacitors as an energy storage device at DC-link. Fig 2. 1. Waveform in LabVIEW 2. DAQ board 3. DC isolation circuit 4. Isolation transformer 5. Supercapacitor 6. 3-phase induction motor 7. Sag generator 8. 3-phase supply View of Designed Hardware 9. AC/DC converter section 10. Capacitor bank(DC- link) 11. Adjustable speed drives 12. Boost convereter 13. DC- link 14. Function generator 15.3-phase Auto transformer 16. Battery Hardware circuit consists of the following sections: 3.1.1 AC/DC converter section: This unit consists of uncontrolled three- phase diode bride rectifier. 3.1.2 DC/AC inverter unit: This unit consists of IGBT based inverter. 3.1.3 Energy Storage Devices: These devices may be capacitor bank/ battery/ supercapacitor of 12Vmodules. This 12V DC is converted to 220 V DC (for experimental purpose) with the help of boost converter and the power is injected at the DC-link. 3.1.4 Voltage Sag Generator Unit: (1) Voltage Sag Generator: The sag generator is a timer circuit which disconnects the main supply and a supply source of reduced voltage (through 3-phase auto-transformer) and it can generate sag from 10%-90% of the rated supply voltages. (2) Interruption Generator: The Interruption is generated by the timer circuit disconnecting the supply for the set time (1cycle to 2 cycles). 4. MODELLING OF THE SYSTEM 4.1. Diode Rectifier equations The basic equations of a three-phase uncontrolled rectifier with input impedance in derivative form are given as: pi (Vmax Vd ) 2 Ls (2) d pV (id io ) Co d (3) where, id is supply current and io is the current drawn by the inverter section. The input AC currents of the rectifier are computed as follows. When VRY is maximum (Vmax) the current (id) flows from terminal ‘R’ to ‘Y’ through the concerned rectifier diode pair and the load. Where as for minimum value of VYR is maximum, the current flows from terminal ‘Y’ to ‘R’. The current in line ‘B’ is zero when these conditions exist. Likewise the currents flowing through the lines are computed when VYB and VBR satisfy these upper and lower voltage conditions. ISSN: 0975-5462 2449 S.S.Deswal et. al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Vol. 2(6), 2010, 2445-2455 4.2. Field-Oriented Control of Induction Motor Drive An AC machine is not so simple because of the interactions between the stator and the rotor fields, whose orientations are not held at 90 degrees but vary with the operating conditions. We can obtain DC machine-like performance in holding a fixed and orthogonal orientation between the field and armature fields in an AC Fig. 4. Boost Converter Topology machine by orienting the stator current with respect to the rotor flux so as to attain independently controlled flux and torque. Such a control scheme is called flux-oriented control or vector control. 4.3. Energy Storage Devices 4.3.1. Battery The battery is modeled using well-known Thevenin equivalent circuit model as shown in Fig. 3. The battery side current is given as: (4) i (Vdc Vcb Voc ) Rb 2 1 bb and, its internal voltage derivative can be expressed as: pV (ibb Vcb2 Rb2 ) Cb2 cb 2 (5) where, Vcb2 is the voltage across capacitor Cb2 which gives the status of the charge of the battery. Voc is the battery open circuit voltage and Rb1 is the internal resistance of the battery and Rb2 represents self-discharging of the battery. Fig. 3. Equivalent circuit of battery 4.3.2. Supercapacitor ASD’s can be designed with integrated supercapacitors, or an add-on module on DC-link. With a lead-acid battery, voltage decreases about 20% between full-charge state and essentially 100% discharged state. In supercapacitors, extracting 75% of the energy requires a 50% decrease in the capacitor voltage. The length of voltage disturbance that can be effectively compensated will depend on the energy density of the DC storage device. The majority of voltage disturbances on the distribution bus are for short duration, and mostly not lasting for more than 10 cycles. The supercapacitors have sufficient storage capabilities and possess a fast discharge time thereby able to respond quickly to voltage disturbances, where as batteries are generally not suitable for short duration because fast battery drainage effects considerably the device life. Energy stored in the capacitor is given by the following equation: E 1 CV 2 2 (6) Where, C is the capacitance in farads, V is the voltage in volts; E is the energy in joules. 2 2 (7) Usable Energy = E 1 C V1 V2 2 Where, V1 is the rated charging voltage V2 is the rated minimum operating voltage of supercapacitors. 4.4. Boost Converter A boost converter is a DC to DC converter with an output voltage greater than the source voltage. Fig. 4 shows the boost converter topology. V0 1 Vi 1 D (8) From the above expression it can be seen that the output voltage is always higher than the input voltage (as the duty cycle goes from 0 to 1), and that it increases with D. ISSN: 0975-5462 2450 S.S.Deswal et. al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Vol. 2(6), 2010, 2445-2455 5. Experimental Results and Discussion The objective of this section is to investigate the performance of an ASD under normal and voltage sag condition. Fig 7 to Fig 10 shows the performance of the proposed scheme. The parameters Vry, Yyb, Vbr , Ir , Iy , Ib and Vdc show the three- phase source voltages, line currents, and DClink voltage respectively. The voltages and currents are also shown for different phases. 5.1. Performance of ASD’s during sag condition Fig 5 and Fig 6 shows the MATLAB Simulation of proposed topology. The MatLab Simulink Tool Box Simpower has been used for getting the required results. Fig 7 and Fig 8 respectively shows the theoretical and experimental behavior of an ASD during normal voltage conditions Fig 9 and Fig 10 respectively shows the theoretical and experimental behavior of ASD’s during a voltage sag when supercapacitor acting separately as an energy storage device. It can be seen that during the sag conditions, there is no source current being drawn since the DC- link voltage remains higher than the line voltages. The ASD’s ride-through and runs with desired torque and the speed with constant DC- link voltage. Discrete, Ts = 1e-006 s powergui Speed reference Torque reference SP Motor i _a motor Stator Current Mec_T speed Conv . A A N Conv . Rotor speed Tem B B AC3 Ctrl C Electomagnetic torque Ctrl v_dc C Three -Phase Programmable Voltage Source Field -Oriented Control Induction Motor Drive demux DC bus voltage (Vdc) 0 Machine terminal voltages Vry Vabc A Vyb Iabc B a Vryb Vbr b C c Iryb Three -Phase V-I Measurement Ir Iy Ib Fig 5. MATLAB Simulated model of ASD Fig 6. Subsystem used in MATLAB Simulated model of ASD ISSN: 0975-5462 2451 S.S.Deswal et. al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Vol. 2(6), 2010, 2445-2455 Vry 1000 0 Vyb -1000 1000 0 Vbr -1000 1000 0 Ir -1000 800 0 Iy -800 800 0 Ib -800 800 Vdc 0 -800 800 700 600 500 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5 0.55 0.6 0.65 0.7 0.75 0.8 0.85 0.9 0.95 time(s) 1 Fig 7. Theoretical results of ASD during normal supply voltage Fig.8. Experimental results of ASD during normal supply voltage ISSN: 0975-5462 2452 S.S.Deswal et. al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Vol. 2(6), 2010, 2445-2455 Vry 1000 0 Vyb -1000 1000 0 Vbr -1000 1000 0 Ir -1000 800 0 Iy -800 800 0 Ib 0 Vdc -800 800 -800 800 700 600 500 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1 1.1 1.2 1.3 time(s) 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 2 Fig.9. Theoretical results of ASD coupled with supercapacitor as energy storage device during voltage sag condition Fig.10. Experimental results of ASD coupled with supercapacitor as an energy storage device during voltage sag condition ISSN: 0975-5462 2453 S.S.Deswal et. al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Vol. 2(6), 2010, 2445-2455 6. Conclusions From the discussion it is clear that Super-capacitors, due to high power density and low ESR, are a very convenient energy storage component to be used in power quality applications. A proposed topology using supercapacitor as an energy storage device is developed and tested. The proposed topology is capable of providing full ride-through to an ASD by maintaining the dc link voltage level constant during the duration of the power quality disturbance i.e. voltage sag. The effectiveness of the proposed ride through topology is shown by means of simulations based on MATLAB and experimental results obtained on a laboratory prototype. 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