Short term duty electrical machines

This paper presents a design of a short term duty electrical machine working in an extreme environment consisting of 80oC ambient temperature and altitudes of over 30,000m. Higher power density is a key factor in the design wherein the machine’s operation is required only for a short duty. The requi...

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Main Authors: Arumugam, Puvaneswaran, Gerada, C.
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36134/
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author Arumugam, Puvaneswaran
Gerada, C.
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description This paper presents a design of a short term duty electrical machine working in an extreme environment consisting of 80oC ambient temperature and altitudes of over 30,000m. Higher power density is a key factor in the design wherein the machine’s operation is required only for a short duty. The requirement of high power-to-weight and power-to-volume leads to a Permanent Magnet (PM) machine design, which is then optimized. Different slot and pole combinations, with both concentrated and distributed winding arrangements are considered. For the optimization, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used where analytical electromagnetic and thermal models are adopted together with Finite Element (FE) methods. It is shown that the adopted thermal model provides sufficient accuracy when predicting temperature rise within the winding. It is also shown that the designs are thermally limited where the pole numbers are limited by volt-amps drawn from the converter. The design consisting of a high slot number allows for improving the heat dissipation from the machine and thus, the weight can be minimized for the given torque production
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spelling nottingham-361342020-05-04T18:13:05Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36134/ Short term duty electrical machines Arumugam, Puvaneswaran Gerada, C. This paper presents a design of a short term duty electrical machine working in an extreme environment consisting of 80oC ambient temperature and altitudes of over 30,000m. Higher power density is a key factor in the design wherein the machine’s operation is required only for a short duty. The requirement of high power-to-weight and power-to-volume leads to a Permanent Magnet (PM) machine design, which is then optimized. Different slot and pole combinations, with both concentrated and distributed winding arrangements are considered. For the optimization, a Genetic Algorithm (GA) is used where analytical electromagnetic and thermal models are adopted together with Finite Element (FE) methods. It is shown that the adopted thermal model provides sufficient accuracy when predicting temperature rise within the winding. It is also shown that the designs are thermally limited where the pole numbers are limited by volt-amps drawn from the converter. The design consisting of a high slot number allows for improving the heat dissipation from the machine and thus, the weight can be minimized for the given torque production 2016-09-07 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Arumugam, Puvaneswaran and Gerada, C. (2016) Short term duty electrical machines. In: International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM'2016), 4-7 Sep 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland. Analytical design extreme environment electromagnetic optimization permanent magnet short-term thermal management
spellingShingle Analytical
design
extreme environment
electromagnetic
optimization
permanent magnet
short-term
thermal management
Arumugam, Puvaneswaran
Gerada, C.
Short term duty electrical machines
title Short term duty electrical machines
title_full Short term duty electrical machines
title_fullStr Short term duty electrical machines
title_full_unstemmed Short term duty electrical machines
title_short Short term duty electrical machines
title_sort short term duty electrical machines
topic Analytical
design
extreme environment
electromagnetic
optimization
permanent magnet
short-term
thermal management
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36134/