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https://doi.org/10.6113/JPE.2019.19.3.761 ISSN(Print): 1598-2092 / ISSN(Online): 2093-4718
JPE 19-3-14
Journal of Power Electronics, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 761-770, May 2019
Hybrid Phase Excitation Method for Improving Efficiency of 7-Phase BLDC Motors for Ship
Propulsion Systems
Hyung-Seok Park*, Sang-Woo Park**, Dong-Youn Kim*, and Jang-Mok Kim†
†,*Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, Korea **Appliance Control Research Team, LG Electronics, Changwon, Korea
Abstract
This paper proposes a hybrid phase windings excitation method for improving the efficiency of a 7-phase brushless DC
(BLDC) motor in the electric propulsion system of a ship. The electrical losses of a BLDC motor system depend on the operating region and the number of excited phase windings (2-phase, 4-phase or general 6-phase windings). In this paper the operating region and torque/speed characteristics according to the motor rotation speed and propeller load are analyzed for a number of excitation methods. In addition, it analyzes the electrical losses of the system under each of the excitation methods in the entire operating region of the motor. In every sampling time, the proposed control method calculates the electrical loss of the system for each of the excitation methods and operates a 7-phase BLDC motor by selecting the excitation method that results a decreased electrical loss at the operating speed. The usefulness of the proposed control algorithm is verified through experimental results.
Key words: 7-phase brushless DC motors, Efficiency control, Electrical losses, Electric propulsion, Phase excitation method
I. INTRODUCTION Recently, the use of electric propulsion systems has been
gradually increasing in ship and electric vehicle systems [1]-[5]. It can achieve higher efficiency and power as well as lower noise and vibration when compared to conventional fuel engine systems [6], [7]. Brushless DC (BLDC) motors are widely used for electric propulsion systems due to their features such as high power density, lower mass and volume, high torque, high efficiency, simple control, simple hardware and software structures, and lower maintenance [8]. In particular, multi-phase BLDC motors have many advantages over traditional 3-phase BLDC motors. These advantages are as follows [9], [10].
1) Better dynamic performance 2) Higher efficiency and reliability 3) Lower ripple of the dc-link current and commutation torque
4) Reductions in the power ratings of several devices 5) Improved system reliability by bypassing during failures
To achieve both a constant maximum torque output and a high power density in a multi-phase BLDC motor with a trapezoidal back EMF, the phase windings of the steady back EMF are excited with a maximum number except for the one non-exciting phase in which the back EMF crosses zero [10]-[14]. Generally, a 7-phase BLDC motor is operated by the 6-phase excitation (6/7π conduction) method [11], [12]. However, although the operating range is reduced due to a decreased output torque, it is possible to operate a 7-phase BLDC motor by using the 2-phase (2/7π conduction) or 4-phase (4/7π conduction) winding excitation methods. Fig. 1 shows an equivalent circuit of a 7-phase BLDC motor inverter system.
High efficiency operation is very important in electric propulsion systems that use energy storage devices such as batteries. However, under the same load conditions, the electrical loss of a multi-phase BLDC motor depends on the number of the excited windings and the respective instantaneous phase current values. The smaller the number of the excited phase windings, the smaller the electric losses of the motor.
© 2019 KIPE
Manuscript received Dec. 23, 2018; accepted Feb. 6, 2019 Recommended for publication by Associate Editor Kwang-Woon Lee.
†Corresponding Author: [email protected] Tel: +82-51-510-2366, Fax: +82-51-513-0212, Pusan Nat'l University
*Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng., Pusan Nat’l University, Korea **Appliance Control Research Team, LG Electronics, Korea
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Fig. 1. Equivalent circuit of a 7-phase BLDC motor system.
Fig. 2. Operation principle of a 7-phase BLDC motor inverter system using a 6-phase excitation method.
Fig. 3. Back-EMFs, phase current waveforms and switching patterns for each excitation method (2-/4-/6-phase excitation methods).
However, the operating area is also reduced. Therefore, in order to increase the efficiency, it is necessary to appropriately select a phase winding excitation method with decreased electric loss according to the operation region.
This paper proposes a hybrid phase winding excitation method for improving the efficiency of a 7-phase BLDC motor for ship propulsion systems. The operating range for each of the phase windings excitation methods is analyzed using the torque/speed characteristics and taking the propeller load torque in to consideration. The calculation of the electrical losses according to the speed and torque conditions for each of the phase winding excitation methods are also performed. Using analyzed studies and normalized equations, the control algorithm operates a 7-phase BLDC motor by selectively using one of the 2-phase, 4-phase or 6-phase winding excitation (2/7π, 4/7π, and 6/7π conduction) methods according to the operating region. An experimental set up of 2kW and 450kW 7-phase BLDC motor drive systems were designed and built. Experimental results obtained from field tests are included to verify the proposed control method.
II. PHASE EXCITATION METHODS
Fig. 2 shows the operation principle of a 6-phase winding excitation method for a 7-phase BLDC motor and PWM inverter. The inverter is composed of a DC-link capacitor and fourteen switching devices each having an IGBT connected with anti-parallel freewheeling diode. It is driven by applying the 6-stator currents in every position (PST). The position of the 7-phase BLDC motor is divided into 14 sections according to hall effect sensor signals. With the position signals, the motor phase windings are excited sequentially to produce a desired torque and speed. One winding is turned on at the same time that the next winding, which is just leaving the polar section, is turned off [10]-[14].
In addition to the 6-phase excitation method, the 7-phase BLDC motor can also be driven by applying 2 stator or 4 stator currents in every position. Fig. 3 shows the timing of the motor phases, the switching pattern, the trapezoidal back EMF due to the PM flux and the currents that must be commanded by the position sensor (ideally, in phase with the
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where N is the number of excited phase windings (2, 4 or 6), ES and IS are the constant peak values of the back-EMF and phase current, ke is the back-EMF constant, and ωm is the rotor angle speed [13], [14].
The back-EMF and phase current for all of the excited phase windings are equal and constant. Under the same load conditions, the smaller the number of excited phase windings, the greater the magnitude of the phase current.
III. TORQUE CHARACTERISTICS AND OPERATING RANGE FOR EACH OF THE EXCITATION
METHODS In order to apply the load torque of a 7-phase BLDC motor for ship propulsion, a mathematical model of the propeller load torque should be considered. Such a model is explained in [15], [16]. The load torque is proportional to the square of the motor rotational speed and can be simplified as:
(3) where km is the equivalent proportionality constant of various coefficients depending on the mechanical and hydrodynamic characteristics of the propulsion system.
Fig. 5. Divided speed region by the controllable speed according to the phase excitation methods.
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By using (4) and (5), the torque/speed curves for each of the phase excitation methods and the load torque/speed curve are shown in Fig. 5. The rated operating speed points for each of the excitation methods in the constant torque region can be determined [4]. The operable region differs depending on the excitation method. When the number of excited phase windings decreases under the same load conditions, the magnitude of the required phase current increases and the operable range decreases due to the limit of the output torque in the inverter system.
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IV. LOSS ANALYSIS OF A 7-PHASE BLDC MOTOR ACCORDING TO THE EXCITATION METHOD
The losses in the motor drive system can be classified into the electrical losses in the inverter, electrical losses and mechanical losses such as friction, stray losses, and so on. All of them are calculated by using well known equations and loss analysis data from several papers and IGBT application notes [17]-[28].
The electrical loss of the inverter system is the sum of the IGBT conduction loss, the inverse diode conduction loss and the switching loss. The total inverter losses according to the phase excitation method are given by (6) [17]-[22]. Where N is the number of excited phase windings, I(N) is the constant phase current under the N-phase excitation method, VIGBT is the on-drop voltage of the IGBT, RIGBT is the on-state resistance, Vdiode is the forward voltage of the freewheeling diode, Rdiode is the diode forward resistance, Rs is the stator resistance, Vdc is the voltage of the DC link, fsw is the switching frequency, and Etotal is the sum of the turn-on and off energy losses.
The electrical loss of a motor is divided into the copper loss and core loss, which can be represented as (7) [23]-[28]. Where kh is the hysteresis loss coefficient, kc is the eddy current
TABLE I EXCITATION METHOD WITH THE LOWEST LOSS ACCORDING
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Excitation Method for Lowest Electrical Loss
2-phase excitation method
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6-phase excitation method
loss coefficient, ke is the excess core loss coefficient, and Bm is the maximum value of the magnetic flux density. Since the variation of the electrical parameters according to the excitation method is negligibly small, the left-side equation of Equ. (7) can be simplified to the right-side equation. This means that the copper loss and core loss can vary with the excitation method and the operating point of the motor.
Since the mechanical parameters and operating conditions are the same in all of the excitation methods and the main purpose of the loss analysis is a relative loss comparison for each of the excitation methods, Eqns. (6) and (7) can be expressed as equations for the speed, phase current and number of excited phase windings. In addition, the mechanical loss is also neglected.
Fig. 6 shows simulation results of the calculated electrical losses for each of the excitation methods according to the speed and load conditions. The electrical losses are different due to changes in the number of excited phase windings and phase current magnitude of the applied excitation method. Within the rated operating range for each of the excitation methods, when the number of excited phase windings decreases, the electrical losses are also reduced. However, the operating region exceeding the rating points analyzed in terms of the efficiency for each of the excitation methods is reduced in section 3.
Therefore, based on the results of the operating range comparison analyzed in section 3 and the results of the electrical loss comparison analyzed in this section, the phase windings excitation method with a lower number within the rated operating range should be used. This means that it is preferable to use the 2-phase, 4-phase and 6-phase excitation methods in regions 1, 2 and 3, respectively.
V. OVERALL CONFIGURATION OF THE PROPOSED HYBRID EXCITATION METHOD
Fig. 7 shows the overall configuration of the proposed hybrid phase winding excitation method for improving the efficiency of a 7-phase BLDC motor of a ship propulsion system. Part (A) of Fig. 7 is the conventional speed control and measurement system in a 7-phase BLDC motor drive system.
The proposed control algorithm is divided into three regions, namely (B), (C) and (D). The electrical losses for each of the excitation methods are calculated from the measured phase currents and angular speed in region (B). In
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Fig. 8. Experiment setup of a 2kW reduced model. region (C), the excitation method with lowest loss is determined by comparing the calculated losses for each of the excitation methods and confirming the rated operating region.
Finally, in region (D), the operation characteristics of the selected excitation method from region (C) are applied to the conventional control algorithm (the excited phase windings and conductive angle according to the hall position). Accordingly, the 7-phase BLDC motor drive system can be operated with increased efficiency by using the proposed hybrid excitation method.
VI. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS The experimental setup shown in Fig. 8 is a 2kW small-
scale system, which was manufactured and installed for the safe verification of the proposed control algorithm. It is
TABLE II ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATIONS OF THE 2KW 7-PHASE BLDC
MOTOR Variable (Unit) Value Rated Power (kW) 2 Rated Voltage (V) 310 Rated Torque (Nm) 2.3 Rated Speed (r/min) 8,000 Number of Poles, P 6 Stator Resistance, Rs (Ω) 0.1 Stator Inductance, Ls (mH) 1 Back-EMF Constant, Ke (V/r/min) 0.0049
composed of a 7-phase BLDC motor and inverter system, a digital control system and a load motor drive system. The electrical specifications of the 2kW 7-phase BLDC motor are shown in Table II, and the proposed algorithm is operated with a 14kHz switching frequency by a DSP+FPGA control board.
Fig. 9 and Fig. 10 show experimental results of the speed control for the 7-phase BLDC motor using each of the excitation methods and the proposed hybrid excitation method, respectively. As shown in Fig. 10, the phase excitation method is changed from a 2-phase excitation method to a 4-phase excitation method at 500r/min. Then it is changed from a 4-phase excitation method to a 6-phase excitation method at 1,500r/min. Considering the system electrical capacity, the phase current was limited to 8A. The 7-phase BLDC motor was operated using the proposed method from the transient state to the steady state.
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Fig. 9. Experimental results for the speed control of a 7-phase BLDC motor by each of the excitation methods. (a) 2-phase windings excitation method. (b) 4-phase windings excitation method. (c) 6-phase windings excitation method.
The experimental setup of a 450kW 7-phase BLDC motor drive system for a high-power electric propulsion system was built as shown in Fig. 11. It is composed of a 7-phase BLDC motor and inverter system, a DSP+FPGA control system, a load system, a power supply system and a water-cooling system. The parameters of the 450kW 7-phase BLDC motor are listed in Table III.
Field tests are conducted for the measurement and comparison of the electrical losses for each of the excitation methods according to the speed region. From the obtained results, the necessity of the proposed excitation method and the loss analysis according to the speed region in the previous section can be verified.
Figs. 12-14 show waveforms using each of the excitation
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Fig. 10. Experimental results for the speed control of a 7-phase BLDC motor by the proposed control method. (a) Speed and current waveforms under the proposed method. (b) Around changing point 1 (500 r/min). (c) Around changing point 2 (1,500 r/min).
Fig. 11. Experimental set of a 450kW 7-phase BLDC motor drive system for an electric propulsion system. methods at the specified three points of the rotation speed and the propeller load torque (operating region 1, 2 and 3, respectively). In addition, waveforms of the rotor position, A-phase current and dc-link current by each of the excitation methods are presented. Figs. 12, 13 and 14 show experimental results at the three point of the rotation speed/load power
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TABLE III ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATIONS OF THE 450KW 7-PHASE BLDC
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Rated Voltage (V) 1,000
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Rated Speed (r/min) 25,000
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The waveforms for each of the phase currents in the experimental results of this system are distorted when compared to the 2kW small-scale system. This is due to differences in the operating conditions between the two systems (operation speed, applied load torque, influence of the back-EMF from the high speed, current delay, mechanical structure of the dynamo system, and control precision for the applied load
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TABLE IV EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OF THE EFFICIENCY
Phase Windings Excitation Method
Measured Efficiency 5,000 r/min 10,000 r/min 13,000 r/min
2-phase 63.85 % 81.25 % 82.60 %
4-phase 62.85 % 85.45 % 84.00 %
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From these results, the efficiency for each of the excitation methods at the three operating points are calculated using the measured input/output power, and are summarized in Table IV. As a result, in operation areas 1, 2 and 3, the operation by the 2-phase, 4-phase and 6-phase excitation methods are the most efficient, respectively. Therefore, the electrical efficiency of a 7-phase BLDC motor drive system can be improved by using the proposed hybrid excitation method.
Experimental results of the proposed control method are presented in Fig. 15. This figure shows waveforms for the speed and phase current of the 450kW 7-phase BLDC motor. The electrical losses for each of the excitation methods were calculated and compared according to the speed and load conditions. From this, the excitation method was changed from 2-phase to 4-phase at change point 1 (around 6,250 r/min), and from 4-phase to 6-phase at change point 2 (around 10,550 r/min). In conclusion, the 7-phase BLDC motor was operated with reduced losses when the excitation method was changed at each changing point.
VII. CONCLUSIONS This paper proposed a hybrid phase windings excitation
method for improving the efficiency of a 7-phase BLDC motor for a ship propulsion system. The proposed control method was implemented by changing the number of excited phase windings according to the operation region. The 7-phase BLDC motor was operated by calculating the electrical losses for each of the phase excitation methods according to the speed and load torque and by selecting the excitation method with decreased electrical losses.
In this study, the operating principle and characteristics for each of the phase excitation methods were presented. The propeller load torque characteristic and operating region for each of the phase excitation methods were analyzed. In addition, the electrical losses for each of the excitation method according to the speed and load conditions were analyzed.
The proposed control method is a technology to improve the efficiency of an electric propulsion system using a battery. The normalized equations and proposed control method for improving the efficiency of the 7-phase BLDC motor in this study can be applied to other multi-phase BLDC motors. In addition to the previous version of this research [29], actual experimental setups for 2kW and 450kW 7-phase BLDCM drive systems were built and the obtained experimental results verify the proposed control method in this paper. From these results, the validity of the analyzed contents and the proposed method were verified.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This work was supported by BK21PLUS, Creative Human Resource Development Program for IT Convergence.
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Hyung-Seok Park was born in Gyeongju, Korea, in 1986. He received his B.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Inje University, Gimhae, Korea, in 2013; and his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Pusan National University, Busan, Korea, in 2015, where he is presently working towards his Ph.D. degree in the Department of
Electrical Engineering. His current research interests include power conversion and electric machine drives.
Sang-Woo Park was born in Changwon, Korea, in 1988. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Pusan National University, Busan, South Korea, in 2012 and 2014, respectively. Since 2014, he has been with LG Electronics, Co., Ltd., Changwon, Korea. He is presently working as a Researcher in the Advanced
Research Team of the H/W Research Center. His current research interests include the control of PFC converters.
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Dong-Youn Kim was born in Ulsan, Korea, in 1983. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Pusan National University, Busan, Korea, in 2011, 2013 and 2019, respectively. He is presently a Postdoctoral Researcher at Pusan National University. His current research interests include power conversion, electric machine
drives and electrical vehicle propulsion.
Jang-Mok Kim received his B.S. degree from Pusan National University, Busan, Korea, in 1988; and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 1991 and 1996, respectively. From 1997 to 2000, he was a Senior Research Engineer with the Korea Electrical
Power Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea. Since 2001, he has been with the School of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University, where he is presently working as a Research Member in the Research Institute of Computer Information and Communication, a Faculty Member, and a Head of the LG Electronics Smart Control Center. As a Visiting Scholar, he joined the Center for Advanced Power Systems, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA, in 2007. His current research interests include the control of electric machines, electric vehicle propulsion and power quality.