INTRODUCTION

 Induction motors are constant speed machines

with slip less than 5% at full load.
 WRIM offers a lot of flexibility compared to
Squirrel cage for wide range of speed control.
 Wye-connected rheostat in WRIM which provides
speed control, torque adjustment current limiting
during starting and acceleration.
 At constant torque by increasing the rotor
resistance causes increase in motor slip which
results in speed decrease.
 Rotor resistance control method provides high
starting torque, low starting current and
variation of speed over a wide range.
 Due to mechanical operation in rotor
resistance control method the time response
is low and speed variation is not smooth.
 The main demerit is energy is wasted in the
form of heat due to internal and external
resistance.
 Due to this disadvantages the high current
power electronic devices are used for smooth
and quick variation in speed.
CONTROL OF WOUND
ROTOR INDUCTION
MOTOR DRIVE
 Block diagram for WRIM drive with RLC:

 The function of the resistance is to

introduce voltage at rotor frequency,
which opposes the voltage induced in the
rotor winding.
 The undesirable features of conventional
rheostat control scheme can be
eliminated by using three phase
uncontrolled bridge rectifier and a chopper
 The rectifier bridge acts as an electronic
frequency changer (EFC).
 The effect of EFC switching is mainly seen at
rotor frequency.
 With the high frequency switching effects of the
chopper, which is power switch electronically
monitored by a control module.
 This system consequently loses the capacity to
control rotor current waveform by pulse width
modulation of electronic switch (ES).
Basic chopper circuit:
 A chopper is a power switch electronically
monitored by a control circuit.
 Chopper in "ON" mode: The equivalent external
resistance Req in the rotor circuit is Rf.
 Chopper in "OFF" mode: The equivalent external
resistance Req in the rotor circuit is (Rf + Rex ).
 Hence it is possible to obtain variation of Req
between Rf and (Rf + Rex ).
 Inductance in the circuit is the rotor leakage
reactance.
 Rex should be chosen as large as possible
to obtain lower speeds.
 The problems occurred in simple chopper
circuit are discontinuity in rotor currents,
voltage spikes across chopper, distortion
in current wave forms causes excessive
heating of windings.
 In order to overcome these problems the
filter is used in rotor circuit.
 With a filter in the rotor circuit current
waveforms can be made continuous and
ripple in DC current can be reduced to a
very small value by selecting the
appropriate chopper frequency.
Open loop speed control of WRIM drive
with RLC:
Closed loop control of WRIM drive with
RLC:
Dynamic modeling of
wound rotor induction
machine
 Dynamic performance of an AC machine is some
what complex.
 Dynamic model of induction machine is derived by
using a two phase motor in direct and quadrature
axes.
 The different possible reference frames are:
1. stationary reference frame
2. Rotor reference frame
3. synchronously rotating reference frame
 Real time model of Two phase induction
machine:

Assumptions are made to derive the dynamic model:

1. uniform air gap
2. balanced rotor and stator windings
3. Saturation and parameter changes are neglected
conclusion:

 The WRIM offers a lot of flexibility for wide

range of speed control compared to squirrel
cage.
 These undesirable features of the resistance
control can be eliminated by using a chopper
controlled external resistance.
 The performance of WRIM with resistively
loaded chopper is better in closed control loop
control compared to open loop control.
 In closed loop control, speed regulation is
better than open loop control.
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