A voltage-controllable switched reluctance generator system with a ring winding structure

Abstract

This paper proposes a voltage-controllable switched reluctance generator (SRG) system with a ring winding structure driven by a full-bridge power converter, which is the first application of a full-bridge power converter to drive the SRG. The proposed topology inherits the advantage of low copper loss of the ring winding that combines AC and DC currents together. It connects the equivalent DC power provided by a DC-DC half-bridge circuit to the ring winding to provide circulating DC and partial excitation energy. This paper provides a detailed description of the proposed system’s feedback loops and operating principle. The proposed topology is compared with the uncontrollable Circulating-Current-Excited Switched Reluctance Generator (CCEG). The comparative study is validated through simulation and experimental platform, and the results highlight the output voltage performance of the proposed topology and control method.