Method and circuit arrangement for controlling an asynchronous motor supplied from a static frequency changer

• US 4,263,542 A
• Filed: 11/27/1978
• Issued: 04/21/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 11/25/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Brown Boveri & CIE AG (ABB Limited)
• Original Assignee: Brown Boveri & CIE AG (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Schulze, Helmut, Moll, Klaus
• Primary Examiner(s): Rubinson, Gene Z.
• Application Number:
  US05/963,990
• Time in Patent Office: 876 Days
• Field of Search: 318/798-803, 318/805, 318/807-812
• US Class Current: 318/803
• CPC Class Codes: H02P 23/08 Controlling based on slip frequency, e.g. adding slip frequency and speed proportional frequency

Abstract

Method for controlling the speed and torque of an asynchronous machine fed through a static frequency changer with impressed intermediate current link, a control variable for the frequency of the current delivered by the frequency changer being formed from an electrical variable corresponding to a slip frequency value and an electrical variable corresponding to actual value of a frequency proportional to the rotor speed of the asynchronous machine which includes operating the asynchronous machine with constant flux in a region of constant maximal torque, and adjusting the flux in the machine, in a region of constant maximal power, as a function both of voltage at commutating capacitors of a self-commutating inverter and of a respective load condition of the asynchronous machine.

Claims

1. Method for controlling the speed and torque of an asynchronous machine having a rotor, a static frequency changer or self-commutating inverter with commutating capacitors and an impressed intermediate current link, which comprises feeding the machine through the static frequency changer with the impressed intermediate current link, forming a control variable for the frequency of the current delivered by the frequency changer from an electrical variable corresponding to a slip frequency value and an electrical variable corresponding to actual value of a frequency proportional to the rotor speed of the asynchronous machine, operating the asynchronous machine with constant flux in a region of constant maximal torque, adjusting the flux in the machine to a maximal value in an operating region of constant maximal power in which maximal machine voltage is reached to hold the voltage constant in dependence on the voltage at the commutating capacitors of the self-commutating inverter, and simultaneously increasing the slip frequency in dependence on the rotor speed.

2. Circuit for performing a method of controlling the speed and torque of an asynchronous machine comprising a current control element having a voltage input and a d-c connected through a choke to an inverter, said inverter having commutating capacitors and having a-c outputs connected to the asynchronous machine, means for providing a current reference value, a measuring device connected to said inverter for determining the voltage at said commutating capacitors thereof, a commutating device having an input connected to said measuring device and having an output, a summing point having a pair of inputs and an output, said means for providing a current reference value and said output of said commutating device being connected to said inputs of said summing point for, respectively, feeding said current reference value and an output signal thereto, a difference forming device having an output and having a pair of inputs, one of which is connected to said output of said summing point, means for feeding an actual value of the current of the asynchronous machine to the other input of said difference forming device, a current regulator having an input connected to said output of said difference forming device and having an output, said current control element having a further input connected through a limiter to said output of said current regulator, a pair of summing devices having, respectively, a pair of inputs and an output, a control unit having an input and an output, means for feeding actual value of a frequency proportional to the rotor speed of the asynchronous motor to the input of said control unit and to one of the inputs of one of said summing devices, said output of said control unit being connected to one of said inputs of the other of said summing devices for feeding a variable signal from said control unit thereto, means for feeding a slip frequency to said other of said inputs of the other of said summing devices, said output of said other summing device being connected to the other input of said one summing device, and said output of said one summing device being connected to said inverter for feeding a control variable thereto formed from the frequency proportional to the rotor speed of the asynchronous motor and the output variable of said other summing device.

3. Circuit according to claim 2 including generator means for determining the frequency proportional to rotor speed of the asynchronous machine, phase leads connecting the asynchronous motor to said generator means, an intermediate d-c link between said current control element and said inverter wherein said choke is connected, a measuring point disposed in said intermediate d-c link ahead of said choke and connected to said limiter for feeding thereto an actual current value determined by said measuring point, and a measuring point disposed in said phase leads for determining the actual value of the motor current.

4. Circuit according to claim 2 wherein said inverter comprises a three-phase bridge circuit and has three-phase leads connected to the asynchronous motor, said bridge circuit having respective halves wherein a respective plurality of thyristors are connected in respective connecting lines, a respective plurality of diodes connected by the respective connecting lines to the respective plurality of thyristors in each of said bridge circuit halves, series-connected commutating capacitors connected at junction points to the connecting lines in each of said bridge circuit halves, and measuring points operatively associated with said measuring device being disposed at said junction points, respectively.