Abstract:
A cooling system to cool an electronic component is disclosed. The cooling system includes a first connection to receive refrigerant, a region to transfer heat from an electronic component to the refrigerant from the first connection, at least one of a cooling coil, a cooling tube, or a cooling block positioned in the region and in fluid communication with the first connection, and a second connection to return refrigerant from the region to an evaporator.
Abstract:
A cooling system (10) is provided for a motor (50) powering a compressor (32) in a vapor compression system (14). The cooling system (10) including a housing (114) and a cavity (126) within the housing (114). A first fluid circuit (140) has a first connection (112) to receive a refrigerant into the cavity (126), and a second connection (154) to deliver refrigerant from the cavity (126) to a heat exchanger for a heat transfer relationship with a heat-generating component (120).
Abstract:
A system or method for a VSD with an active converter including a controller, an inductor, an active converter, a DC link, and an inverter. The active converter is controlled to receive an input AC voltage and output a boosted DC voltage to a DC link, up to 850 VDC, the active converter using only low voltage semiconductor switches to provide the 850 VDC DC link voltage. The controller is configured to operate with a reactive input current magnitude equal to zero at a predetermined system load, and at system loads less than the predetermined system load, to introduce a reactive input current that results in a converter voltage having a magnitude less than the input voltage, wherein the vector sum of the input voltage and an inductor voltage is equal to the converter voltage.
Abstract:
A cooling member for a variable speed drive is disclosed. The cooling member includes including at least two channels, each channel including at least one inlet and at least one outlet, a first passageway configured to provide fluid to the at least two channels through the at least one inlet of each channel, a second passageway configured to receive fluid from the at least one outlet of each channel the at least two channels, and a connector to connect the cooling member to a second cooling member.
Abstract:
A method of providing ride-through capability in a chiller/refrigeration system employs a variable speed drive with an active converter stage, a DC link stage and an inverter stage for providing variable frequency and voltage to power at least one motor. An induction motor is coupled to the output of the inverter stage for driving a compressor in the chiller/refrigeration system. The ride-through method comprises operating the active converter to regulate the DC link voltage of the DC link stage to a predetermined voltage level until the current through the active converter equals a predetermined current limit, then transferring regulation of the DC link to the inverter upon reaching the current limit of the converter. The compressor is unloaded, and the power flow through the inverter is reversed to maintain the voltage level of the DC link stage. Pre-rotation vanes, slide valve, or check valve are used to unload the compressor.
Abstract:
A heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and/or refrigeration (HVAC&R) system includes a refrigerant loop having a compressor configured to circulate a refrigerant therethrough, a motor configured to drive rotation of the compressor, wherein the motor is a permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance (PMASR) motor, and a motor cooling system configured to direct a portion of the refrigerant from the refrigerant loop and through a housing of the PMASR motor to place the portion of the refrigerant in thermal communication with components of the PMASR motor.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system that includes a variable speed drive (52) configured to provide power to a motor (50) that drives a compressor (32) of the HVAC&R system and a silicon carbide transistor (100) of the variable speed drive (52), where the silicon carbide transistor (100) is configured to adjust a voltage, or a frequency, or both of power flowing through the variable speed drive (52).
Abstract:
A cooling member (42) for a variable speed drive (26). The variable speed drive has a component (74) that generates heat during operation of the drive and a base. The base has a surface that receives the component, a channel (46) formed in the surface of the base and a passageway (47, 49) formed in the base and receiving fluid therethrough. Fluid flowing through the passageway provides cooling to the component and the base is manufactured from an injection molding process.
Abstract:
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system that includes a variable speed drive (VSD) (52) configured to supply power to a motor (50) configured to drive a compressor (32) of the HVAC&R system, a rectifier (102) of the VSD (52) configured to receive alternating current (AC) power from an AC power source (108) and convert the AC power to direct current (DC) power, a DC bus (106) of the VSD (52) electrically coupled to the rectifier (102), an inverter (104) of the VSD (52) electrically coupled to the DC bus (106), where the inverter (104) is configured to convert the DC power to output AC power, the output AC power has a variable voltage and a variable frequency, and the output AC power is directed to the motor (50), and a battery (100) electrically coupled to the DC bus (106), where the battery is configured to provide auxiliary DC power to the VSD (52).
Abstract:
A method is disclosed for controlling a synchronous motor by determining a rotor position of the synchronous motor based on estimating a flux linkage. The method includes applying a voltage of a stator winding of the motor to a transfer function. The transfer function includes an S-domain integration operation and an error correction variable. An output of the transfer function is processed to compensate for the error correction variable introduced in the transfer function. An estimated flux linkage is generated and an angle of the rotor position is computed based on the flux linkage. The computed rotor position is input to a controller for controlling a position or speed of the motor.