Design of 3KV three-phase inverter

Three-phase inverter reference design for 200-480VAC drives (Rev. A) This reference design realizes a reinforced isolated three-phase inverter subsystem using isolated IGBT gate drivers and isolated current/voltage sensors.

The 2300 V three-phase inverter reference design demonstrates the design simplicity and scalability of Wolfspeed's new 2300 V baseplate-less SiC power modules.

However, most 3-phase loads are connected in wye or delta, placing constraints on the instantaneous voltages that can be applied to each branch of the load. For the wye connection, all the “negative” terminals of the inverter outputs are tied together, and for the detla connection, the inverter output terminals are cascaded in a ring.

Wolfspeed's 2300 V 3-phase inverter reference design demonstrates the design simplicity and scalability of the new 2300 V baseplate-less SiC power modules.

In particular, considering “full-bridge” structures, half of the devices become redundant, and we can realize a 3-phase bridge inverter using only six switches (three half-bridge legs). The 3-phase bridge comprises 3 half-bridge legs (one for each phase; a, b, c).

Considering inverter states in which one switch in each half-bridge is always on (for current continuity at the load) there are 23 = 8 switch state possibilities for the 3-phase inverter. We give each state a vector designation and a associated number corresponding to whether the top or bottom switch in each half-bridge is on.