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CHAPTER 6 - USING VFDS WITH DCS/PLC SYSTEMS 

  • VFDs used in a process plant 
  • Detailed Implementation of the above 
  • Digital Communications 
  • Need for digital communications 
  • Functions of a typical digital network 
  • Profibus 
  • Modbus 
  • Safety Aspects 
  • Summary & Conclusion
Dear Friend,

Variable Frequency Drives (also known by other names such as Variable Speed Drives, Inverter Drives, Frequency Drives, Adjustable speed drives) are growing in importance every day as you see them being increasingly used in all kinds of places, not just manufacturing plants and industries, but also in office buildings, warehouses and other commercial places. The reason is easy. Variable Frequency Drives are the best thing that ever happened to the ac induction motor, as you can now control these motors in a variety of ways, which were not at all possible earlier.
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So what you'll get inside isn't somebody's complex PhD treatise, with hundreds of partial differential equations that will make you shudder at the thought of even looking-NO!

This ebook is the practical, no nonsense, easy to understand guide to Variable  Frequency Drives meant for use by electrical engineers, electrical technicians and other electrical and instrumentation/automation professionals.

This is that "one guide" that you were searching for. It is the info that you were looking for on the internet, but after hours of surfing you could not really find it.

It is the selection guide to VFDs that you would have loved to have but hated asking the vendor's sales rep for something like this.

In short, this is the Quick Guide to VFDs that somebody should have written long ago (but nobody did- so we stepped in to fill the gap).
AC Variable Frequency Drives
However, the information that is available on how to use these drives is not very easily available. Of course there ARE several sources of information, but are problematic. Why? Read on below:
Source 1: The internet

Of course, there is a lot of "free information" out there that is on the internet, but it is difficult to verify, collate and understand. To do this would also require literally spending endless hours surfing, and trying to find something that can actually be used in your work.

Source 2: Textbooks

You could buy a textbook on the subject from any of the bookstores; the only problems being that the information is very likely outdated and secondly many of these are written in a way that is difficult to understand for the practising engineer or technician like you. Seriously do you have the time to solve some complex vector mathematics, differential equations and the like? Or would you want to find out quickly why your expensive VSD is tripping up at a particular frequency?

Source 3: Vendor literature

Would you ask a barber whether you need a haircut? What would be the answer? No prizes for guessing! If you ask a vendor (nothing against them, they are the ones who develop the technology behind these wonderful devices) but the chances are that you will not get UNBIASED answers. Suppose a standard V/f drive is good enough for your application. Would a typical vendor tell you that? Or would he/she try to "upsell" you to a vector drive? I think you get the point

So, we at Abhisam Software (who develop a lot of e-learning courses for engineers and technicians) thought about it and decided that we should have an UNBIASED GUIDE to this wonderful technology that is

a) Easy to understand

b) Not too long winded, without skipping anything important

c) Easily accessible

Here's the end product - A QUICK GUIDE TO AC VARIABLE FREQUENCY DRIVES!
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CHAPTER 1 - BASIC CONCEPTS

  • Introduction 
  • VFDs, VSDs, ASDs, VVVF Converters, Inverters 
  • AC Motors 
  • An ac induction motor 
  • Speed Control of ac induction motors 
  • Power, Speed and Torque 
  • Torque 
  • Locked Rotor Torque 
  • Motor characteristics and types 
  • Design A motor 
  • Design B motor 
  • Design C motor 
  • Design D motor 
  • Design E motor 
  • Which type is best for my application? 
  • Load torque characteristics for different kind of loads 
  • Classification of loads 
  • Constant Torque loads 
  • Variable Torque loads 
  • Constant Power loads 
  • Four Quadrant Operation 
  • Overview of AC motor controls 
  • DOL starter (Direct On Line starter)/Across the line starter 
  • Star (Wye) and Delta connections 
  • Control with a VFD 
  • Inverter Duty Motors 
  • Advantages of using a VFD for control of motors 
  • Speed Regulation 
  • Better Power Factor 
  • Soft Starting 
  • Flexibility in input power 
  • Precision Controls for torque and speed 
  • Energy Saving 
  • Replacement of control valves in process plants 
  • Built in PID controls 
  • Communication 
  • Possibility of replacing DC drives with AC VFDs 
  • Disadvantages of VFDs 
  • Harmonics 
  • Cannot be used with all motors 
  • Distance limitations 
  • Noise 
  • Industrial applications of VFDs
CHAPTER 2 - INSIDE A VFD 

  • Introduction 
  • Inside a VFD 
  • Overall design 
  • Rectifier Block 
  • DC Link block 
  • Inverter block 
  • Controller block 
  • VFD parts & VFD components 
  • VFD Components  
  • Diode  
  • Diode Curve  
  • Switching frequency of diodes  
  • Rectifier Circuits  
  • Half wave rectifier  
  • Full wave rectifier (Bridge rectifier) 
  • Three phase bridge rectifiers 
  • Thyristors (Silicon Controlled Rectifiers-SCRs) 
  • Firing angle 
  • Three phase rectifier using thyristors 
  • DC link block 
  • Soft Charge Circuit
  • Inverter Block 
  • Transistor (BJT) 
  • Working model of a transistor 
  • Transistor as an amplifier 
  • Transistor as a switch 
  • MOSFET 
  • IGBT 
  • Pulse Width Modulation 
  • How does Pulse Width Modulation work? 
  • Changing the amplitude of the output sinusoidal waveform 
  • Changing the frequency of the output sinusoidal waveform 
  • Noise effects of PWM inverters
CHAPTER 3 - VFD FUNCTIONS 

  • Starting/Stopping of the motor 
  • Acceleration/Deceleration 
  • Ramping 
  • Speed Limits 
  • Speed Changing 
  • a) Using the digital inputs 
  • b) Using a potentiometer 
  • c) Using the analog input signal 
  • d) Using Digital Communication 
  • Forward/Reverse operation 
  • Motor Thermal Overload Protection 
  • Slip Compensation 
  • Control schemes in VFDs 
  • Open Loop controls in VFDs 
  • Closed loop control with VFDs 
  • V/f Control 
  • Vector Control 
  • What is the "vector" in vector control? 
  • Sensorless vector control 
  • Flux Vector control (Closed loop) 
  • Shaft encoders 
  • Absolute encoders 
  • Incremental encoders 
  • Difference between absolute encoder and incremental encoder 
  • Closed Loop Flux Vector Control 
  • Field Oriented Control (FOC) 
  • Comparison between V/f drives and Vector Control drives. 
  • PID Control 
  • Anti-windmill protection and Flying Start 
  • Anti-windmill protection 
  • Flying Start-Catching up with the motor at power on 
  • Skip Frequencies 
  • Torque Control 
  • Direct Torque Control 
  • How does DTC work? 
  • Advantages of DTC 
  • Disadvantages of DTC 
  • Motoring and regeneration 
  • Braking Resistor 
  • Dynamic Braking 
  • Line regenerative braking 
  • DC injection braking 
  • Motor Overflux braking 
CHAPTER 4 - ENERGY SAVINGS USING VFDs

  • Types of Loads 
  • Pumps, Fans and Blowers 
  • Traditional flow control 
  • Control of Centrifugal Pumps 
  • Affinity Laws of Centrifugal Pumps 
  • Centrifugal Pump basics 
  • Pump Characteristic Curve 
  • System Curve 
  • Energy savings with fans and blowers 
  • Other energy savings due to VFDs 
  • Power Factor improvement 
  • Reduction in demand charges 
  • Shorter Duty Cycles
CHAPTER 5 - SPECIFYING, SELECTING AND INSTALLING VFDs 

  • Flowchart 
  • Load considerations 
  • Evaluate VFD benefits versus traditional motor controls 
  • VFD features for maximum benefit 
  • Derating of VFDs 
  • Temperature Derating 
  • Altitude Derating 
  • Overload Capacity 
  • Harmonics due to VFD installations 
  • What are Harmonics? 
  • Total Harmonic Distortion 
  • Problems due to harmonics 
  • What could be the PCC? Says who? 
  • Measurement of harmonics 
  • Harmonics in PWM type drives 
  • Mitigation of harmonics 
  • Supply voltage 
  • Number of starts 
  • Fuse Disconnects 
  • Bypass circuit 
  • Installation inside a panel or other enclosure 
  • Earthing 
  • Maximum Cable length from VFD to the motor 
  • IGBT switching 
  • Standing wave & Reflected wave phenomenon 
  • Voltage drop 
  • Long cable length solutions 
  • Multiple inverters in the same VFD 
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