Smart Operation Point: Mastering power peaks in electrical machines and plants – without overdimensioning

Jürgen Dlugosch, Baumüller Nürnberg GmbH

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Avoiding overdimensioning by maximum utilization of the electric drives

Index

The problem

The need to provide power peaks in electrical machines (e.g. for shredders or presses) can cause overdimensioning in the drive design. That causes unnecessary costs and can be avoided. The actual output power, which can be achieved with a servo-controller, depends on the switching power of the installed IGBTs. This switching power of the IGBTs depends on various factors: Output current, output frequency, temperature rise, on-time.

IGBT

IGBT or Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors, are power semiconductors, which are now found in virtually every industrial application. The IGBT is responsible for the fastest, and thus low-loss, switching of electrical currents. The power loss occurring at the IGBTs and the associated temperature rise is inversely proportional to the basic frequency. A pulse width modulated signal (PWM) is used here.

The objective

Avoiding overdimensioning by maximum utilization of the electric drives.

The solution

Short-term high loading of electric drives, in which a high torque is required at low speeds, leads to thermal loading. This stress has a negative effect on the life of IGBTs and thus the devices. Larger components are therefore often chosen to avoid premature failure, but this leads to higher production costs. It doesn't have to be like this. With the implementation of the Baumüller dynamic temperature model, the capacity utilization and thus the thermal load of the servo-controller can be recorded. The clock frequency of the power module can then be reduced automatically in real time. This enables short-term higher output power of the devices without any negative effect on their life.

Additional benefits can be achieved by using this effect in reverse: The PWM frequency can be increased during idle running of the machine; this reduces the noise generated by the motor, caused by electromagnetic effects.

The benefits

Drive can be dimensioned smaller
Or: Productivity of the machine increases
Reserves for short-term power peaks are possible (e.g. in shredders, presses)
Noise impact due to the machine is reduced
High torque at lower speed can be achieved - resulting in less component wear

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Jürgen Dlugosch
Senior Product Manager I Baumüller Nürnberg GmbH

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