Medium Voltage Drives

LS Industrial Systems MV Drives Specifications

Paweł Szymula — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:50:16 +0000

LS Industrial Systems has recently entered the medium voltage drives market with the new product – LSMV. It is a cascaded multilevel H-bridge type inverter. Technical specifications of the drive are available below. LSMV Topology Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel Inverter Input section Diode 18-pulse or 36-pulse rectifier Input voltage 3300V, 4160V, 6600V, 10000V Efficiency 97% at [...]

Converteam Opens New MV Business Factories in China

Paweł Szymula — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:45:06 +0000

Converteam opened a new rotating machines factory in Yantai, Shandong province. Medium voltage motors and generators will be manufactured there. The company plans also to run a medium voltage drives manufacturing plant in Shanghai and a joint-venture in Wuhan. More information about the investments and management statements can be found in the company official press [...]

Schneider Electric MV Drives Specifications

Paweł Szymula — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:55:20 +0000

Schneider Electric Altivar 1000 medium voltage drive: Altivar 1000 Topology 3-level Neutral Point Clamped Voltage Source Inverter Input section Diode 12-pulse or 24-pulse or HV IGBT based 3L-NPC AFE Input voltage 2300V, 3300V Efficiency 99% at rated load for drives with diode rectifier (without input transformer), no data for active front end rectifier Input power [...]

Converteam MV Drives Specifications

Paweł Szymula — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:38:01 +0000

Converteam MV7000 medium voltage drive technical data: MV7000 Topology 3-level Neutral Point Clamped Voltage Source Inverter Input section Diode 12-pulse or 24-pulse or HV IGBT based 3L-NPC AFE Input voltage 3300V or 6600V Efficiency 98.8% at rated load for drives with diode rectifier, 98.6% for active front end rectifier at PF=0.9 and excluding all auxiliary [...]

Ansaldo Sistemi Industriali MV Drives Specifications

Paweł Szymula — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:01:10 +0000

Ansaldo Sistemi Industriali (ASI) medium voltage drives technical data: Silcovert TN Topology 3-level Neutral Point Clamped Voltage Source Inverter Input section Diode 12-pulse or 24-pulse or HV IGBT based 3L-NPC AFE Input voltage 3300V Efficiency >98% at rated load for drives with diode rectifier, AFE – no data Input power quality 12-pulse IEEE 519 compliance [...]

Alstom MV Drives Specifications

Paweł Szymula — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:34:37 +0000

Alstom medium voltage drives technical data: Alspa VDM5000 Topology 2-level Voltage Source Inverter Input section Diode/SCR 6-, 12-, 18- pulse rectifier; HV IGBT with Active Energy Management Input voltage 2300-4160V Efficiency no data Input power quality 6-pulse rectifier doesn’t meet IEEE 519 requirements, 12-pulse IEEE 519 compliance – In/Isc ratio dependent, 18-pulse and AFE meets [...]

ACS 2000 – New ABB Medium Voltage Drive

Paweł Szymula — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:27:46 +0000

ABB has recently introduced a new medium voltage drive – ACS 2000. It is IGBT based five-level diode-clamped* voltage source inverter. Main product features according to the manufacturer documentation are: AFE 5-level IGBT rectifier with transformerless design** (direct-to-line connection is possible), two-winding input transformer is an alternative, full load/speed input power factor correction and regenarative [...]

Allen-Bradley (Rockwell Automation) MV Drives Specifications

Paweł Szymula — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:49:40 +0000

Rockwell Automation manufactures three medium voltage drive types – all of them are CSI topology. The main differences between types are: power range, input section configuration, cabinets design – footprint, cooling and control voltage. PowerFlex 7000A ‘A’ Frame Topology Current Source Inverter Input section PWM SGCT based rectifier with input capacitors, 6-pulse SCR rectifier, 6 [...]

ABB MV Drives Specifications

Paweł Szymula — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:58:28 +0000

Below you will find technical data of medium voltage drives manufactured by ABB. ACS 1000 Topology Voltage Source Inverter – Three-level Neutral Point Clamped Input section Diode rectifier – 12 or 24 pulses – no regenerative braking ability Input voltage 2300V, 3300V, 4160V Efficiency >98% at rated load excluding isolation transformer Input power quality 24 [...]

MV Drives Offer Overview

Paweł Szymula — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:44:09 +0000

There are few manufacturers of medium voltage drives. Each of them offers different drive topologies with specified advantages and drawbacks. In successively published posts I will provide brief product specification and links to available documentation. At this point I will not compare specific solutions. In the following posts I will present offer of companies with [...]