B.E.

Project Report
Semester: VII

Phase II Evaluation
Group Members
Shivam Tripathi: 2014110062
Kaushal Malaviya: 2015210072
NiveshVaze: 2015210082

Under the guidance of

Prof. Prashant V. Kasambe

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 SARDAR PATEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Department of Electronics Engineering

Academic Year: 2017-2018

Design and Development of an Experimental Setup of Variable

Frequency Drive for e-learning using LabVIEW

Report submitted for the partial fulfillment for the Term Work for BE Project Phase-II Evaluation.

Group Members:

Shivam Tripathi: 2014110062

Kaushal Malaviya: 2015210072
Nivesh Vaze: 2015210082
Under the guidance of
Prof. Prashant V. Kasambe
Signature of Guide:

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CONTENTS:

Sr.No. Topic Page No.

1. Introduction 3

2. Problem Statement 5

3. Block Diagram 7

4. Hardware and Software requirements 8

5. Work done and Results 9

6. Planning 10

7. References 11

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INTRODUCTION
Electrical Energy already constitutes more than 30 % of all energy usage on Earth. Large
part of the electrical energy production is used to be converted into mechanical energy via
different kinds of electric motors - DC Motors, Synchronous Motors and Induction Motors.
Induction Motors account for more than 85% of all motors used in industry and domestic
applications. In the past they have been used as constant-speed motors as traditional speed
control methods have been less efficient than speed control methods for DC motors.
Induction Motors are often termed the Workhorse of the Industry. This is because it is one
of the most widely used motors in the world. It is used in transportation and industries, and
also in household appliances and laboratories.

In Industries Variable Frequency Drives are usually available as a Product hence it is very
difficult for the users to understand the internal working and complete operation of the drive.
Hence for the proper understanding of the working principle of drive, it is necessary to
provide internal test points to view/monitor the Waveforms.

This report presents the need of Speed Control in Induction Motors. Out of the various
methods of controlling Induction motors, V/f Control has proven to be the most versatile.
The overall scheme of implementing V/f control has been presented. One of the basic
requirements of this scheme is the PWM Inverter. In this, PWM Inverters have been
designed and their outputs fed to the Induction Motor drives. It is expected that using a
Variable Frequency drive with a PWM Inverter is a very superior way of controlling the
speed of an Induction motor while maintaining a constant maximum torque.

It is almost impossible to give detail treatment to such cutting edge technologies in regular
theory, practical classes. Hence the proposed system will provide the following advantages:

The proposed case study considered here is of an experimental set up in a Machines

Laboratory
Use of innovative teaching and learning practices has become key solutions to
outcome based education (OBE).
A Laboratory Manual can be prepared describing step by step procedure to use this
set-up. After following these step by step procedures, students or user will not only
be able to understand the theoretical aspects of VFD but also its practical aspects.
This setup can be available as an e-learning platform
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 PROBLEM STATEMENT

The project aims at developing an E-learning platform for remote monitoring and control of
an Induction motor using Variable Frequency drive

Fig.(a): General Block diagram of the System

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The proposed system also serves the following objectives:

Obtaining Constant Torque condition for variable loads for certain range of speeds
To design a control Panel for user-friendly control of the system
To design a GUI in LabVIEW for remote Monitoring of the System
To develop a webpage for remote monitoring and control of the proposed system

In order to do that, one must be familiar with the PWM Inverter which drives the
induction motor. The aim of the proposed prototype is to develop a experimental setup for
better understanding of theoretical as well as practical aspect of VFD in industries. Hence
this system can be used to demonstrate the VFD Drive by means of PWM Inverter
method. This experimental setup can be included as an experiment in curriculum. Students
or user will not only be able to understand the operation of VFD Drive but will also be
able to understand its efficiency. The users can also monitor and control the setup through
remote collection using web-page facility.

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BLOCK DIAGRAM

Fig.(b): Detailed Block diagram of the System

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HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Hardware Requirements:

Single Phase rectifier circuit

Three Phase PWM Inverter circuit
IGBT/MOSFET Driver circuit
DSP TMS320F28335 Kit
Hall Effect Proximity sensor
Overload and Short circuit protection
Motor Starter circuit (if required)
NI MyRio

Software Requirements:

LabVIEW
Code Composer Studio

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WORK DONE AND RESULTS
1. Generation of PWM Pulses for Gate driver Circuit

Fig.(c): PWM signal Generation

The PWM pulses were produced using PWM generation module of DSP processor
with the help of reference square wave signal
The PWM frequency was synced to the input square wave frequency by capturing
its rising edge

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 Fig.(d): Varying PWM Duty Cycle

The PWM frequency is synced to the reference signal and its Duty Cycle was
varied using a Potentiometer
The DC value provided by potentiometer interfaced to ADC of the Digital Signal
Processor is used to write into the PWM duty Cycle Control Registers. It controls
the Pulse Width

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 2. Measurement of Frequency and RPM using MyRIO

Fig.(e) : Sampling the output signal

GUI for:

Entering the sampling

Interval

Indicating the period in

s of the sampled signal

Fig.(f) : GUI for output signal sampling

The RPM measurement is achieved by sampling the Speed sensor pulse
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Outputs using Myrio digital input pin.
 Fig.(g) :Block diagram to convert period into frequency

GUI for :
Indicating period and frequency of
waveform
Motor Speed indication ( in RPM )

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Fig.(h) : GUI for RPM measurement
PLANNING

Sr. Date (Month Work to be completed Remarks

No. wise)

1 July Analysis and Survey Completed

2 August Generation of PWM pulses Completed

3 September Interfacing MyRio to the Completed

system and measurement of
frequency and RPM

4 October LabVIEW GUI for RPM Completed

measurement

5 December Design of Power System for Work to be done

speed control of motor and
overall GUI

6 January Design of Signal Work to be done

Conditioning circuit and
remote monitoring

7 March Paper writing Work to be done

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REFERENCES:

1. E. B. Agamloh, Power and Efficiency Measurement of Motor-Variable Frequency

Drive Systems,IEEE Advanced Energy ,Raleigh, NC 27606, USA

2. Naveen kumar M,Design and Implementation of a Variable Frequency Drive for

Single-Phase Induction Motor, 2015 IEEE International WTE Conference on
Electrical and Computer Engineering

3. A Koteswara Rao, Shoubhik Mukherjee, G Santhosh Kumar, G Balawanth Reddy, S

EswaraRao, Dr. B P Muni,Development and Testing of 1MW Variable Frequency
Drive,Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited.

4. Mr. AungZawLatt, Dr. Ni Ni Win , Variable Speed Drive of Single Phase

InductionMotor Using Frequency Control Method, 2009 International Conference on
Education Technology and Computer

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