The current study aims to improve the performance of the electrohydraulic servo system(EHSS)by increasing the volumetric efficiency of the pump and reducing electrical power consumption to a minimum value.An experimen...The current study aims to improve the performance of the electrohydraulic servo system(EHSS)by increasing the volumetric efficiency of the pump and reducing electrical power consumption to a minimum value.An experimental setup has been designed and built to control the cylinder position using a programmable logic controller to provide the appropriate motor speed from the AC drive to control the velocity of the hydraulic actuator;the induction motor is driven by an AC drive using a tune proportional-integral-variable frequency drive(TPI-VFD)space vector modulation(SVM)hybrid technology.Theoretically,it was analyzed and simulated by MATLAB,which showed that the starting current was reduced by 81%compared to the traditional system.Also,the settling time of the system decreased to 0.35 s to reach a steady state with a minimum error of 0.03 and an overshoot of 0.3%.On the other hand,the experimental results of the EHSS show that the three-phase induction motor with a closed-loop speed control AC drive with a programmable logic controller PLC based system is the best case for determining the appropriate operating speed.The optimum speed,frequency,and voltage were 1325.3 rpm,46.6 Hz,and 354.16 V.In addition,enhancement is achieved in closed-loop VFD-PLC,where at 6.5 bar pressure and 3.4 LPM flow,the volumetric efficiency after the pump improves to 98.6%while it reaches 96.3%before the cylinder at a flow rate of 3.32 LPM.Finally,in the closed-loop VFD-PLC in the expansion stroke,the rated electrical power consumption of the three-phase IM decreased to 532 W at the speed of 1325.3 rpm,resulting in energy savings of 20.6%.展开更多
文摘The current study aims to improve the performance of the electrohydraulic servo system(EHSS)by increasing the volumetric efficiency of the pump and reducing electrical power consumption to a minimum value.An experimental setup has been designed and built to control the cylinder position using a programmable logic controller to provide the appropriate motor speed from the AC drive to control the velocity of the hydraulic actuator;the induction motor is driven by an AC drive using a tune proportional-integral-variable frequency drive(TPI-VFD)space vector modulation(SVM)hybrid technology.Theoretically,it was analyzed and simulated by MATLAB,which showed that the starting current was reduced by 81%compared to the traditional system.Also,the settling time of the system decreased to 0.35 s to reach a steady state with a minimum error of 0.03 and an overshoot of 0.3%.On the other hand,the experimental results of the EHSS show that the three-phase induction motor with a closed-loop speed control AC drive with a programmable logic controller PLC based system is the best case for determining the appropriate operating speed.The optimum speed,frequency,and voltage were 1325.3 rpm,46.6 Hz,and 354.16 V.In addition,enhancement is achieved in closed-loop VFD-PLC,where at 6.5 bar pressure and 3.4 LPM flow,the volumetric efficiency after the pump improves to 98.6%while it reaches 96.3%before the cylinder at a flow rate of 3.32 LPM.Finally,in the closed-loop VFD-PLC in the expansion stroke,the rated electrical power consumption of the three-phase IM decreased to 532 W at the speed of 1325.3 rpm,resulting in energy savings of 20.6%.
