The vast majority of electricity is used by industrial facilities in a converted form. At the same time, the use of semiconductor converters to obtain the required load parameters is intensively increasing. Current trends in the development and improvement of semiconductor converters are aimed at energy saving by improving their quality of work and reducing the impact on the power supply, load, and related consumers. Frequency converter with DC insert has become widespread and widely used. Its scheme is mainly based on an uncontrolled diode rectifier and an autonomous voltage inverter. Uncontrolled rectifiers are simple and reliable, but have two main disadvantages: the impossibility to recover electricity to the supply network and distortions of the source current shape. We can get rid of these disadvantages by using an active rectifier made according to the voltage source scheme instead of an uncontrolled rectifier. The operation of an active rectifier significantly depends on the type of its control system structure. This article aims to to improve the structure of the switches control system of the active rectifier scheme – voltage source built using a vector calculation algorithm; creation of a MatLab model of a three-phase active-controlled rectifier operating with a fixed modulation frequency and analysis of the influence of the input inductance value on the quality of its operation. The simulation results confirm that the improved structure of the vector control system proposed by the authors ensures high-quality operation of the active rectifier and electromagnetic compatibility of the frequency converter with the power supply network at the level allowed by the standards; simplification of the representation mathematical apparatus of the generalized vectors of currents and voltages at the construction of a vector control system of the active rectifier – voltage source practically did not influence qualitative indicators of the converter work in any way; a network filter must be used to eliminate the final distortions introduced into the source voltage by an additional nonlinear load.
A Vector Control System Using a Neutral-Point-Clamped Voltage Source PWM Inverter.
