Performance Comparison of Electric Drives for Chopping/Shredding Sugarcane in Sugar Industry
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A performance comparison of the conventional slip ring induction motor (SRIM) drive and the recently inducted variable frequency drive (VFD) in the sugar industry, for sugarcane preparation (chopping/ shredding of sugarcane), is carried out to assess their effectiveness and to explore better electric drives for the application. These high inertial machines demand high starting torque and mitigating means to reduce surge load due to the impact load imposed on them. Though, both the drives meet the requirement but the SRIM drives are subjected to huge slip power loss, low power factor, unequal load sharing problem for coupled motors and high drop in rpm, whereas VFDs are subjected to the problems of input current harmonics, high dV/dt stress and common-mode voltage (CMV). In this paper, along with the performance comparison a three/four-level multilevel inverter (MLI) fed open-end winding induction motor (OEWIM) drive is also proposed as an improvement over the existing ones.
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V. Kumar and Sanjiv Kumar, “Performance Comparison of Electric Drives for Chopping/Shredding Sugarcane in Sugar Industry”, AJSE, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 14 - 23, May 2023.
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[12] I. G. Odnokopylov, Y. N. Dementev, I. V. Usachev, D. Y. Lyapunov, and A. S. Petrusev, “Load balancing of two-motor asynchronous electric drive,” 2015 Int. Sib. Conf. Control Commun. SIBCON 2015 - Proc., no. November 2018, 2015, doi: 10.1109/SIBCON.2015.7147249.
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[14] J. Iyer, “Load Sharing Schemes in Multiple Induction Motor Drive Applications Using Volts-per-Hertz Control,” The University Of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2011.
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[17] P. Rein, Cane Sugar Engineering, 2nd ed. Verlas Dr. Albert Bartens KG - Berlin, 2017.
[18] L. Zhai and Y. Pan, “On steering regenerative brake torque control of dual-motor drive for electric tracked vehicle,” in Proceedings of the 29th Chinese Control Conference, Jul. 2010, pp. 3265–3269, doi: 10.1109/ICAL.2010.5585305.
[19] S. K. Agrawal, V. Kumar, A. Alam, and P. Thakura, “Regenerative braking for induction motor drive,” in 2014 6th IEEE Power India International Conference (PIICON), Dec. 2014, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/POWERI.2014.7117698.
[20] M. Khodapanah, A. F. Zobaa, M. Abbod, and M. H. H. Rozlan, “Monitoring of power factor for induction machines using estimation techniques,” Proc. Univ. Power Eng. Conf., vol. 2015-Novem, 2015, doi: 10.1109/UPEC.2015.7339877.
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[24] S. Bell and J. Sung, “Will Your Motor Insulation Survive a New Adjustable-Frequency Drive?,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl., vol. 33, no. 5, pp. 1307–1311, 1997.
[25] Z. Liu and G. L. Skibinski, “Method to reduce overvoltage on AC motor insulation from inverters with ultra-long cable,” in 2017 IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), 2017, pp. 1–8, doi: 10.1109/IEMDC.2017.8002231.
[26] J. Rodriguez, S. Bernet, P. K. Steimer, and I. E. Lizama, “A Survey on Neutral-Point-Clamped Inverters,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 2219–2230, Jul. 2010, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2009.2032430.
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[30] S. Kumar and P. Agarwal, “Simulation of FLC based five-level inverter fed open-end winding IM drive,” in 2015 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Engineering Computational Sciences (RAECS), Dec. 2015, pp. 1–6, doi: 10.1109/RAECS.2015.7453284.
[31] K. V. Praveen Kumar, K. M. Ravi Eswar, and T. V. Kumar, “Hardware implementation of Predictive Torque Controlled Open-end winding induction motor drive with self-tuning algorithm,” Cogent Eng., vol. 4, no. 1, 2017, doi: 10.1080/23311916.2017.1388206.
[32] S. Lakhimsetty, N. Surulivel, and V. T. Somasekhar, “Improvised SVPWM Strategies for an Enhanced Performance for a Four-Level Open-End Winding Induction Motor Drive,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 2750–2759, 2017, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2016.2632059.
[33] M. Ranjit, M. Sumanjali, and B. Ganesh, “Open-end Winding Induction Motor Drive Using Decoupled Algorithm,” J. Electr. Electron. Syst., vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 1–9, 2016, doi: 10.4172/2332-0796.1000164.
[34] B. Singh and S. Gairola, “Zigzag Autotransformer Based Full-Wave AC-DC Converters,” Asian Power Electron. J., vol. 2, 2008.
[35] A. Somani, R. K. Gupta, K. K. Mohapatra, and N. Mohan, “On the causes of circulating currents in PWM drives with open-end winding AC machines,” IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron., vol. 60, no. 9, pp. 3670–3678, 2013, doi: 10.1109/TIE.2012.2208430.
[36] P. Sandhya and G. Midhun, “Circulating Common-Mode Current Reduction in Open-End Winding Induction Motor Drive Using Decoupled Algorithm,” Int. J. Ind. Electron. Electr. Eng., vol. 3, no. 11, pp. 22–27, 2015.