In this dissertation, we present a comprehensive approach to designing an EMI filter for suppressing conducted EMI in integrated electric motor drives for vehicle installation. High-power integrated electric motor drives, due to their complex geometry, exhibit a variety of parasitic elements, which pose challenges for modelling and predicting EMI during the development phase. For the drive under consideration, we built a SPICE model that includes all relevant parasitic elements and evaluated it using the LTspice® environment in both the frequency and time domains. In the latter, we precisely described the conditions during the switching sequence of the MOSFET and implemented a control strategy for two different randomly selected constant duty ratios that occur within one electrical revolution of the motor and SVPWM control throughout the entire electrical revolution of the motor, further improving the overall spectral accuracy.
Research on passive and active filtering for suppressing both common-mode and differential-mode conducted interference is focused on various approaches to the integration of chokes to enhance their efficiency and space utilisation. Many solutions are unsuitable for installation in high-power drives because they achieve the desired inductance values with a large number of turns, which is not feasible for conductors with large cross-sections from a manufacturing perspective. Based on the research of existing solutions and the results of conducted EMI simulations, we developed and validated a new hybrid filter solution for the drive, which reaches battery currents up to 400 A. The proposed solution demonstrates effective suppression of both common-mode and differential-mode noise, regardless of the battery current magnitude. The compensation logic, which compensates for the magnetic flux in the central leg, is implemented without a feedback loop, which is less likely to introduce instability into the system.
We conducted EMI measurements with the prototype of the hybrid solution without and with active compensation. The results confirm the satisfactory performance of the proposed hybrid solution according to the specified requirements for installation in the considered integrated electric motor drive and indicate that it is also suitable for mass production.
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