中国电气工程学报（英文） ›› 2018, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (1): 1-10.

• •    下一篇

  

  • 出版日期:2018-03-25 发布日期:2019-10-31

Modular Design Method for Motor Drives

Dong Jiang1,*, Puqi Ning2, Rixin Lai3, Zhihao Fang1, Fred Wang4   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;
    2. Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100083, China;
    3. HITTOP Investment Management CO. LTD, Beijing 100020, China;
    4. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
  • Online:2018-03-25 Published:2019-10-31
  • Contact: * E-mail: jiangd@hust.edu.cn.
  • About author:Dong Jiang received B.S and M.S degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghu a University in 2005 and 2007. He began his PhD study in Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) in Virginia Tech in 2007 and was transferred to University of Tennessee with his advisor in 2010. He received his PhD degree in University of Tennessee in Dec. 2011. He has been with United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) in Connecticut as a Senior Research Scientist/Engineer from Jan 2012 to July 2015. He joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology as a professor in July 2015. Dong Jiang’s major research area is power electronics and motion control, with more than 60 published/ accepted journal and conference papers and 20 patents and patent applications in this area. Puqi Ning was born in Tianjin, China. He received the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, US in 2010. He is full professor in Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Ning has been involved in high temperature packaging and high density converter design for more than 10 years.Rixin Lai received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree in the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) at Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA, in 2002, 2005 and 2008 respectively. From 2009 to 2014, he was a senior electrical engineer at the Electronic Power Conversion Laboratory, Global Research Center of General Electric Company, Niskayuna, USA, leading the subsea electrification program. Since 2015 he was with Hittop Investment Management CO. Ltd. as the executive director. Dr. Lai has authored and co-authored more than 15 transaction papers and holds 3 US patents. His research interests include EMI technology, high power high density converter development, new application for power electronics, and energy policy. Zhihao Fang received the B.S. degree from School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2016. He is currently working toward the M.S. degree in electrical engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. His research interests include silicon carbide devices based power converter design and electromagnetic interference in motor drives. Fei (Fred) Wang received the B.S. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, in 1982, 1985, and 1990, respectively, all in electrical engineering. He was a Research Scientist at the Electric Power Lab, University of Southern California, from 1990 to 1992. He then joined the GE Power Systems Engineering Department, Schenectady, NY, USA, as an Application Engineer in 1992. From 1994 to 2000, he was a Senior Product Development Engineer with GE Industrial Systems, Salem, VA, USA. During 2000 to 2001, he was the Manager of Electronic and Photonic Systems Technology Lab, GE Global Research Center, Schenectady, NY, USA, and Shanghai, China. In 2001, he joined the Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA, as a Research Associate Professor and became an Associate Professor in 2004. From 2003, he also served as the CPES Technical Director. Since 2009, he has been with the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab, Knoxville, TN, USA, as a Professor and Condra Chair of Excellence in Power Electronics. He is a Founding Member and Technical Director of the multiuniversity NSF/DOE Engineering Research Center for Ultra-Wide-Area Resilient Electric Energy Transmission Networks (CURENT) led by the University of Tennessee. His research interests include power electronics, power systems, controls, electric machines, and motor drives.
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the National Science Foundation of China (51607077).

PDF

221

Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of modular design methodology for hardware design and development of motor drives. The modular design process is first introduced separating the hardware development into three parts: controller, mother board and phase-leg module. The control and circuit function can be decoupled from the phase-leg module development. The hardware update can be simplified with the phase-leg module development and verification. Two design examples are used to demonstrate this method: a DC-fed motor drive with Si IGBTs and an AC-fed motor drive with SiC devices. Design of DC-fed motor drive aims at developing the converter with customized IGBT package for high temperature. Experience with development of the converter with commercial IGBTs simplifies the process. As the AC-fed motor drive is a more complex topology using more advanced devices, the modular design method can simplify and improve the development especially for new packaged devices. Also, the modular design method can help to study the electromagnetic interference (EMI) issue for motor drives, which is presented with an extra design example.

Key words: Motor drive, devices, modular, gate driver