Impact of sideband harmonic pattern on losses in laminated non-oriented steel

Losses in laminated non-oriented steel under the effect of two high harmonic clusters, caused by voltage excitation typical of two-level pulse-with-modulated (PWM) DC-link and space-vector modulated (SVM) matrix converters, were analyzed. The predicting method proposed, which incorporates anisotropy of loss Ka and grain size gs, describes the magnetizing process within the steel by the means of Poisson statistical distribution. Results are then compared to losses determined by Bertotti's model. The two methods confirmed that spreading of sideband harmonics in the kilohertz range can reduce harmonic losses by up to 40% at low power frequencies.