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http://dx.doi.org/10.6113/TKPE.2014.19.5.457

Online Load Torque Ripple Compensator for Single Rolling Piston Compressor  

Gu, Bon-Gwan (School of Energy Eng., Kyungpook National University)
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The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics / v.19, no.5, 2014 , pp. 457-462 More about this Journal
Abstract
Given their low cost, single rolling piston compressors (SRPC) are utilized in low-power room air-conditioning systems. The SRPC cycle is composed of one compression and discharge process per mechanical rotation. The load torque is high during the compression process of the refrigerants and low during the discharge process of the refrigerants. This load torque variation induces a speed ripple and severe vibration, which cause fatigue failures in the pipes and compressor parts, particularly under low-speed conditions. To reduce the vibration, the compressor usually operates at a high-speed range, where the rotor and piston inertia reduce the vibration. At a low speed, a predefined feed-forward load torque compensator is used to minimize the speed ripple and vibration. However, given that the load torque varies with temperature, pressure, and speed, a predefined load torque table based on one operating condition is not appropriate. This study proposes an online load torque compensator for SRPC. The proposed method utilizes the speed ripple as a load torque ripple factor. The speed ripple is transformed into a frequency domain and compensates each frequency harmonic term in an independent feed-forward manner. Experimental results are presented to verify the proposed method.
Keywords
Load torque compensation; PMSM motor; Rolling piston compressor;
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