National Theatre Niš
Serbia
Energy saving during modern lift operation (Conference Paper)
Mitronikas, E.D.a, Spyropoulos, D.V.a, Papanikolaou, N.P.a, Tatakis, E.C.a, Spyropoulos, N.b
aDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece
bKLEEMANN HELLAS S.A., Greece
Proceedings - 2014 International Conference on Electrical Machines, ICEM 201417 November 2014, Article number 6960266, Pages 756-76121st International Conference on Electrical Machines, ICEM 2014; Andel's Hotel BerlinBerlin; Germany; 2 September 2014 through 5 September 2014; Category numberCFP1490B-ART; Code 109303
In this work, an active regenerative braking converter using a bidirectional Buck-Boost converter is implemented in order to improve the overall efficiency of modern building lifts. The converter is connected in parallel to the inverter DC-bus. Energy is stored in a set of supercapacitors during regeneration and it is transferred back to the DC-bus when the elevator accelerates. In order to test the effectiveness of the proposed converter, a simulation model of the whole lift has been developed and simulation tests have been carried out. To illustrate operation of the whole system, characteristic results are presented and discussed.