A series synchronous motor drive for large power and normal speed applications

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Abstract: The presentation will begin with the conventional motor drive solutions for large power (MW) and normal speed (about 1500-3000 r/min) applications. Against this backdrop, the relevance of the proposed series synchronous motor drive for such applications will be discussed. Next, the schematics of the proposed drive will be presented, followed by the procedure of its �detailed� and �simplified� modeling. The performance of such a drive for constant speed, constant torque and constant power applications will be analyzed subsequently. At the end, a position sensorless implementation of the drive will be discussed. Biography: Kaushik Mukherjee received the B.E. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India, in 1993, the M.E. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engineering College, Howrah, India, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, in 2003. Since 1993, he has spent almost two and a half years in the industry. In 2002, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, India as a Lecturer. From 2006 onwards, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Howrah, India. Dr. Mukherjee is presently a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Hybrid Automotive Research & Green Energy, University of Windsor, Canada. His research interests include electrical machine drives and power electronics application in general. He is a member of the IEEE and has 4 IEEE transaction papers and about 25 international and national conference papers to his credit. He has recently authored a book entitled, �Commutatorless Series Motor Drive for High Power Applications: Development, Design, Analysis, Simulation Models and Hardware Implementation� published by VDM-Verlag Dr. Muller.