Proposal for a New Power Converter for Medium Voltage Integrated Variable Speed Motor Drives

据估计，目前全球30%的电力用于驱动工业应用中的电动机。看看工业电动机市场，虽然这是由在低压应用中实施的电动机主导，但该市场的约10%致力于生产中压应用的电动机，例如用于轧制米尔斯，水处理厂，造纸和纸浆工业及其他高在过去的12年里，诺丁汉大学开发的用于低功率工业应用的嵌入式电机驱动器的研究已经证明，这项技术可以改善和本研究将调查高功率EMD架构的可扩展性和可行性的解决方案，着眼于低电压和高电流范围，但也更具挑战性，中压和低电流范围。中压嵌入式电机驱动器拓扑结构是本研究的重点，用于工业泵和风扇，以提高工业过程中的节能和CO2减排。这将允许创建目前市场上不存在的更高功率的嵌入式电机驱动器。虽然电动机市场的一个小得多的部分，调查和开发中压工业驱动器的技术解决方案的基础上，广泛的经验和效益证明了嵌入式电机驱动器在诺丁汉大学正在进行的研究将进一步发展的解决方案，可以使一个真实的差异，在减少全球能源消耗。

Currently, it is estimated that 30% of electricity generated globally is used to drive electric motors in industrial applications. Looking at the industrial electric motors market, although this is dominated by electric motors which are implemented in low voltage applications, around 10% of this market is dedicated to the production of electric motors for medium voltage applications such as for rolling mills, water treatment plants, paper and pulp industry and other high-power applications.The research on embedded motor drives for low power industrial application developed at the University of Nottingham in the past 12 years has proven that this technology can improve and favour the uptake of variable speed drives which would lead to enormous energy savings globally.This research will investigating solutions to the scalability and feasibility of high power EMD architectures looking at low voltage and higher current ranges but also the more challenging, medium voltage and lower current range. Medium voltage embedded motor drives topologies it's the focus in this research for industrial pumps and fans for enhanced energy savings and CO2 reductions in industrial processes. This will allow the creation of higher power embedded motor drives which currently do not exist in the market. Although a much smaller segment of electric motors market, investigating and developing technological solutions for medium voltage industrial drives based on the extensive experience and benefits proven with the ongoing research on embedded motor drives at the University of Nottingham will further the development of solutions which can make a real difference in reducing global energy consumption.