doctoralThesis
Otimização da estrutura de acionamento para o controle de posição radial de um motor de indução trifásico sem mancais com enrolamento dividido
Fecha
2018-06-21Registro en:
SOUZA, Francisco Elvis Carvalho. Otimização da estrutura de acionamento para o controle de posição radial de um motor de indução trifásico sem mancais com enrolamento dividido. 2018. 133f. Tese (Doutorado em Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação) - Centro de Tecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2018.
Autor
Souza, Francisco Elvis Carvalho
Resumen
In bearingless motors or self-bearing motors, the motor and bearing functions are
combined, that is to say, in the stator of the machine circulate currents that produce on the
rotor besides the torque, also radial forces that support the rotor in the center of the stator.
Thus, these machines do not suffer from the common wear of mechanical bearings, do
not require lubrication, operate without noise and are suitable for applications with high
rotational speed. In spite of all the advantages of the self-bearing motors, their operation requires a drive structure equipped with many components such as: electronic power
switches, sensors, electronic interfaces and digital signal processors that make their application more expensive. The purpose of this work is to optimize (decrease) the number
of components necessary for the operation of the self-bearing motors, both for the control
of the radial position of the rotor and for its drive, To achieve this, the following strategy
was designed: instead of controlling the currents of the three phases, which requires the
control of six currents, the currents of only two are controlled, the current of the third one
is produced by the sum of the first ones. With this, the control structure would only use
4 electronic switches (IGBT), 4 drives (electronic interface for IGBTs), 4 current sensors
and 4 current controllers, instead of 6 of these devices and 6 required current controllers
for control with the three phases. This strategy was implemented in a prototype of 250-
watt induction self-bearing motors that works in the upright position. The experimental
tests showed similar results to those obtained with three-phase control techniques.