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Sensor Reduction in a PFC-Based Isolated BL-SEPIC Fed BLDC Motor Drive

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Systems Thinking Approach for Social Problems

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This work presents an improved power quality-based isolated bridgeless single-ended primary inductance converter (BL-SEPIC) fed brushless DC (BLDC) motor drive using a single voltage sensor. The voltage of DC bus of voltage source inverter (VSI) feeding BLDC motor is varied for controlling the speed of BLDC motor and operating the VSI in low frequency switching for electronically commutating the BLDC motor for minimal switching losses. A front-end isolated bridgeless configuration of SEPIC is used which offers reduced conduction losses. The BL-SEPIC is designed to operate in discontinuous conduction mode (DCM), thus utilizing a simple control of voltage follower. The sensorless control of BLDC motor is also used for elimination of rotor position sensors. The performance of proposed drive is evaluated over a wide range of speed control with unity power factor (PF) at AC mains. The obtained power quality indices are under the recommended limits of IEC 61000-3-2.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, 110016, India

    Bhim Singh & Vashist Bist

  2. Electrical Engineering Department, École de Technologie Supérieure, 1100 Notre-Dame, Montreal, QC, H3C 1K3, Canada

    Ambrish Chandra & Kamal Al-Haddad

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  1. Systems Science, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    Vivek Vijay

  2. Information and Communication Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    Sandeep Kumar Yadav

  3. Systems Science, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    Bibhas Adhikari

  4. Systems Science, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    Harinipriya Seshadri

  5. Systems Science, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India

    Deepak Kumar Fulwani

Appendix

Appendix

BLDC Motor Specifications: No. of Poles: 4 pole, Rated Power (P rated) = 251.32 W, Rated DC link Voltage (V rated) = 130 V, Rated Torque (T rated) = 1.2 Nm, Rated Speed (ωrated) = 2,000 rpm, Back-EMF Constant (K b ) = 78 V/krpm, Torque Constant (K t ) = 0.74 Nm/A, Phase Resistance (R ph) = 14.56 Ω Phase Inductance (L ph) = 25.71 mH, Moment of Inertia (J) = 1.8 × 10−4 Nm/s2.

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Singh, B., Bist, V., Chandra, A., Al-Haddad, K. (2015). Sensor Reduction in a PFC-Based Isolated BL-SEPIC Fed BLDC Motor Drive. In: Vijay, V., Yadav, S., Adhikari, B., Seshadri, H., Fulwani, D. (eds) Systems Thinking Approach for Social Problems. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 327. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2141-8_30

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