Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints

This paper investigates high-speed surface PM machine design for portable turbo-generator applications. The rotor radius is fixed to achieve certain optimal characteristics of the magnet retention mechanism. The basis of this paper is to design and select the stator. The stator designs are populated...

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Main Authors: Fernando, Nuwantha, Arumugam, Puvaneswaran, Gerada, C.
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Published: IEEE 2018
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author Fernando, Nuwantha
Arumugam, Puvaneswaran
Gerada, C.
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Arumugam, Puvaneswaran
Gerada, C.
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description This paper investigates high-speed surface PM machine design for portable turbo-generator applications. The rotor radius is fixed to achieve certain optimal characteristics of the magnet retention mechanism. The basis of this paper is to design and select the stator. The stator designs are populated by different slot/pole combinations, winding arrangements and over a range of possible stack lengths. However, the design is constrained by physical diameter, stack length and electrical volt-ampere constraints. A large number of preliminary machine designs do not satisfy the specified turbo-generator torque/speed requirements under the given volt-ampere constraints and therefore it is ineffective to perform Finite Element analysis on all preliminary design variations. In order to establish the feasibility of a machine design to fulfill the specified turbo-generator torque/speed requirements, the concept of inductance-limits is presented and then linked with stator design parameters. By application of this analysis strategy, a confined optimal set of stator designs are obtained and are subjected to detailed finite element simulations. A final machine design is selected and fabricated. Experimental results are presented for the validation of the final machine design.
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spelling nottingham-522482020-05-04T19:31:50Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52248/ Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints Fernando, Nuwantha Arumugam, Puvaneswaran Gerada, C. This paper investigates high-speed surface PM machine design for portable turbo-generator applications. The rotor radius is fixed to achieve certain optimal characteristics of the magnet retention mechanism. The basis of this paper is to design and select the stator. The stator designs are populated by different slot/pole combinations, winding arrangements and over a range of possible stack lengths. However, the design is constrained by physical diameter, stack length and electrical volt-ampere constraints. A large number of preliminary machine designs do not satisfy the specified turbo-generator torque/speed requirements under the given volt-ampere constraints and therefore it is ineffective to perform Finite Element analysis on all preliminary design variations. In order to establish the feasibility of a machine design to fulfill the specified turbo-generator torque/speed requirements, the concept of inductance-limits is presented and then linked with stator design parameters. By application of this analysis strategy, a confined optimal set of stator designs are obtained and are subjected to detailed finite element simulations. A final machine design is selected and fabricated. Experimental results are presented for the validation of the final machine design. IEEE 2018-02-12 Article PeerReviewed Fernando, Nuwantha, Arumugam, Puvaneswaran and Gerada, C. (2018) Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion . ISSN 0885-8969 Permanent magnet machine; Field-weakening; High-speed machines; Leakage inductance model https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8289362/ doi:10.1109/TEC.2018.2804955 doi:10.1109/TEC.2018.2804955
spellingShingle Permanent magnet machine; Field-weakening; High-speed machines; Leakage inductance model
Fernando, Nuwantha
Arumugam, Puvaneswaran
Gerada, C.
Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints
title Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints
title_full Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints
title_fullStr Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints
title_full_unstemmed Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints
title_short Design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints
title_sort design of a stator for a high-speed turbo-generator with fixed permanent magnet rotor radius and volt-ampere constraints
topic Permanent magnet machine; Field-weakening; High-speed machines; Leakage inductance model
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52248/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52248/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52248/