Iron Loss Reduction Method of V/F Control for Switched Reluctance Motor

This paper proposes an iron loss reduction method in a V/f control for a switched reluctance motor (SRM). The proposed method applies the three-level modulation method to reduce harmonic iron loss. In addition, a reactive power compensation control of the proposed strategy eliminates fundamental iron loss caused by a reactive power. The proposed method reduces 69.0% of the harmonic iron loss and 4.7% of the fundamental iron loss in the experiment.