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

目前，据估计，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，但这个市场中约有10%致力于生产用于中压应用的电动机，如轧钢厂，水处理厂，造纸和纸浆工业以及其他大功率应用。在过去的12年里，诺丁汉大学对嵌入式电机驱动的低功耗工业应用的研究已经证明，这项技术可以改进并有利于变速驱动的采用，这将导致全球巨大的能源节约。这项研究将研究高功率EMD架构的可扩展性和可行性的解决方案，包括低电压和高电流范围，以及更具挑战性的中压和低电流范围。中压嵌入式电机驱动拓扑是本研究的重点，用于工业泵和风扇，以增强工业过程中的节能和二氧化碳减排。这将允许创建更高功率的嵌入式电机驱动器，目前不存在于市场上。虽然电机市场的份额要小得多，但基于诺丁汉大学正在进行的嵌入式电机驱动研究的丰富经验和优势，调查和开发中压工业驱动的技术解决方案将进一步开发解决方案，从而在降低全球能源消耗方面发挥真正的作用。

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.