The brushless doubly-fed motor (BDFM) is versatile and can perform under several modes of operation. Other than the commonly used doubly-fed mode, BDFM can also operate in an asynchronous mode wherein the control winding of the motor is short circuited. The proposed study first analysed the mechanical characteristics of BDFM operation under this mode, whereby it was noted that there exist two induction torque components corresponding to different pole pairs within the motor. The motor, therefore, behaved as a conventional induction machine. Based on the above analysis and by introducing the concept of equivalent resistance of the machine-side inverter, an asynchronous soft-starting method for BDFM is proposed herein. By switching one side of the inverter bridge arms to the off state and adjusting the duty cycle on the other side, a controllable equivalent resistance is obtained and inserted into the control winding of BDFM. Consequently, the starting characteristic of BDFM can be improved to achieve soft start-up of the motor. Finally, experiments were conducted on a 30 kW BDFM prototype, of which, the results verify the accuracy of the torque analysis and improved performance of the proposed soft-starting method.
In the dynamics of grid‐connected operation of brushless doubly‐fed generators, grid voltage dips can cause the extreme imbalance between the voltage and the back electromotive forces in power winding. When these imbalances are combined with the influence of the inertia link composed of converter and generator, a serious over‐current and current oscillation forms in power winding and control winding. This paper gives a process analysis and proposes an improved control to the system during the low voltage ride through event. According to the mathematical model of the generators, the correlation between the power winding and control winding currents is established and then a fully equivalent simplified model is obtained accordingly. When the voltage suddenly drops to zero, the analytic expressions of power winding and control winding are calculated in the complex frequency domain and the influence factors of overshoot and oscillations are analyzed. The conventional control method relies on limited PI regulation that cannot eliminate the oscillations completely. It is found that after adjusting a proportional coefficient and eliminating the integral link of the control winding current controller, the order of the control system reduces. Therefore, the generation system can quickly recover to a steady state without oscillations. Finally, the analysis and improvement are verified by the simulation model and experimental results.
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