PCS Blue Line in the Field:
Four-Wheel Test Bench Used by Ford Group.
Ford uses a stationary converter system for the operation of highly dynamic, permanently excited synchronous motors for Volvo in Sweden, a Ford member company.
The system is used in gear and drive-train development for four-wheel drive passenger vehicles.
It electronically simulates the vehicle's behaviour on the road.
Four IGBT motor converters are used for the operation of four permanently excited synchronous motors.
A four-quadrant line-side converter on IGBT basis is used for quick energy exchange with the feeding grid.
The synchronous motors are coupled not to the wheels but to the drive train.
The motor converter generates a high precise torque in the synchronous motors, ranging from 0 to 3.500 Nm at the drive trains.