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Electrical Machine Design for Emerging Technologies

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "F: Electrical Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2020) | Viewed by 17475

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Dr. Epaminondas D. Mitronikas

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, 265 04 Patras, Greece
Interests: electrical machines; power electronics; electric drive systems; small power electric motors; field-oriented control of AC machines; electric and hybrid vehicles; digital control of electric drives; fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control of electrical machines and drives
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Dear colleagues,

The Guest Editor is inviting submissions to a Special Issue of Energies entitled “Electrical Machine Design for Emerging Technologies”.

Electrical machines have evolved into a key component of human technical civilization, actively supporting a wide range of processes and assisted by power electronics technology. Over the last decades, research in the field of electrical machines design has yielded significant outcomes, empowering the ongoing electrification and contributing to the shaping of our sustainable future. In the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution, emerging technologies create new challenges in this research area either by setting new requirements and seeking new design concepts or by providing novel development tools and advanced materials.

Dr.-Eng. Epaminondas D. Mitronikas
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • electrical machines
  • electrical machine design
  • electrical machine design for electric drives
  • emerging technologies
  • design and analysis
  • design optimization

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25 pages, 12851 KiB  
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Design Optimization of Outer Rotor Toothed Doubly Salient Permanent Magnet Generator Using Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm
by Cherif Guerroudj, Yannis L. Karnavas, Jean-Frederic Charpentier, Ioannis D. Chasiotis, Lemnouer Bekhouche, Rachid Saou and Mohammed El-Hadi Zaïm
Energies 2021, 14(8), 2055; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14082055 - 08 Apr 2021
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Wind turbine (WT) technology becomes more and more important due to the serious environmental and energy issues. The toothed poles outer rotor doubly salient permanent magnet (DSPM) generator with simple and durable design, high torque and high-power density has a great prospect in [...] Read more.
Wind turbine (WT) technology becomes more and more important due to the serious environmental and energy issues. The toothed poles outer rotor doubly salient permanent magnet (DSPM) generator with simple and durable design, high torque and high-power density has a great prospect in wind turbines application. The large diameter makes the construction of such a machine more convenient due to the installation of the turbine blades directly to the outer rotor generator surface. Nevertheless, the size of the generator must be increased to provide larger output power. This increases the generator’s mass. Thus, larger massive DSPM generators are undesirable in wind turbine design. In this paper, an optimization design procedure of the outer rotor doubly salient permanent magnet generator ORDSPMG is proposed for 10 kW WT application. The reduction of the generator weight is demonstrated and proofed. The considered machine version is characterized by having the same effective axial length and output torque imposed by the specifications relative to the 10 kW direct drive WT. An optimization procedure using a fast and effective method, namely the symbiotic organism search (SOS) algorithm coupled to a parametric two dimensional finite elements analysis (2D-FEA), is employed to optimize the machine parameters. The main parameters affecting the generator design are also analyzed. The results obtained reveal that the proposed generator topology presents low weight and thus high torque density among other satisfactory characteristics. Full article
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Hybrid-Excited PM Motor for Electric Vehicle
by Luca Cinti and Nicola Bianchi
Energies 2021, 14(4), 916; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14040916 - 09 Feb 2021
Cited by 9 | Viewed by 2229
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This paper deals with the potentials of a Hybrid-Excitation Permanent-Magnet (HEPM) machine. The HEPM machine is characterized by a rotor including both permanent magnets (PMs) and excitation coils. The PMs produce a constant flux at the air gap of the machine, while an [...] Read more.
This paper deals with the potentials of a Hybrid-Excitation Permanent-Magnet (HEPM) machine. The HEPM machine is characterized by a rotor including both permanent magnets (PMs) and excitation coils. The PMs produce a constant flux at the air gap of the machine, while an excitation current is supplied so as to regulate such a flux. A flux increase could be necessary during transient overload operations, while a flux decrease is useful during Flux-Weakening (FW) actions to operate at speeds higher than the nominal speed. Torque, power, efficiency, flux density and losses of an interior permanent magnet (IPM) motor and an HEPM motor are analyzed in detail. It is shown that this excitation winding produces a great advantage in terms of torque and power performance during the operations at speeds higher than the nominal speed. Despite the additional rotor losses, it is shown that there is a higher efficiency. Full article
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Influence of Powertrain Topology and Electric Machine Design on Efficiency of Battery Electric Trucks—A Simulative Case-Study
by Sebastian Wolff, Svenja Kalt, Manuel Bstieler and Markus Lienkamp
Energies 2021, 14(2), 328; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14020328 - 08 Jan 2021
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The advancement of electric mobility as a measure to comply with international climate targets and sustain renewable resources in the future has led to an electrification of the mobility sector in recent years. This trend has not been spared in the logistics and [...] Read more.
The advancement of electric mobility as a measure to comply with international climate targets and sustain renewable resources in the future has led to an electrification of the mobility sector in recent years. This trend has not been spared in the logistics and commercial vehicle sector. Emerging electric powertrain concepts for long-haul vehicles have since been developed and adapted to different use cases and axle concepts. In this paper, the authors show the influence of the powertrain topology and the associated design of the electric machine on the efficiency and energy consumption of commercial vehicles. For this, existing series or prototype long-haul axle topologies are analyzed regarding their efficiency and operating points within four driving cycles. Additionally, a sensitivity analysis on the influence of the total gearbox ratio tests the assumed designs. We find that single-machine topologies offer efficiency advantages over multiple-machine topologies. However, this study highlights a joint consideration of application-specific machine design and topology to realize the full technological potential. Full article
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Analytical Determination of the Slot and the End-Winding Portion of the Winding-to-Rotor Capacitance for the Prediction of Shaft Voltage in Electrical Machines
by Jan Ole Stockbrügger and Bernd Ponick
Energies 2021, 14(1), 174; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14010174 - 31 Dec 2020
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Common-mode voltage, caused by a 2-level inverter, is a source of discharge currents in motor bearings. Due to the capacitive coupling, between the stator winding and the rotor, an image of the common-mode voltage is produced on the shaft—which can exceed the dielectric [...] Read more.
Common-mode voltage, caused by a 2-level inverter, is a source of discharge currents in motor bearings. Due to the capacitive coupling, between the stator winding and the rotor, an image of the common-mode voltage is produced on the shaft—which can exceed the dielectric strength of the lubrication film of motor bearings. Accurate determination of the winding-to-rotor capacitance is necessary to predict the shaft voltage. This article proposes a novel analytical determination of the slot and the end-winding portion of the winding-to-rotor capacitance. The calculation rules, which are based on the method of image charges and the charge simulation method, take into account the continuity and the boundary conditions of the field areas. Results are validated by means of finite element method simulations. Notably, deviations are in the single-digit percentage range. Furthermore, the presented methods are simple to implement. Full article
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Optimization and Analysis of a High Power Density and Fault Tolerant Starter–Generator for Aircraft Application
by Bo Wang, Gaurang Vakil, Ye Liu, Tao Yang, Zhuoran Zhang and Chris Gerada
Energies 2021, 14(1), 113; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14010113 - 28 Dec 2020
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Permanent magnet synchronous machines provide many dramatic electromagnetic performances such as high efficiency and high power density, which make them more competitive in aircraft electrification, whereas, designing a permanent magnet starter–generator (PMSG), with given consideration to fault tolerance (FT), is a significant challenge [...] Read more.
Permanent magnet synchronous machines provide many dramatic electromagnetic performances such as high efficiency and high power density, which make them more competitive in aircraft electrification, whereas, designing a permanent magnet starter–generator (PMSG), with given consideration to fault tolerance (FT), is a significant challenge and requires great effort. In this paper, a comprehensive FT PMSG design process is proposed which is applied to power systems of turboprops. Firstly, potential slot/pole combinations were selected based on winding factor, harmonic losses and manufacture issues. Then, pursuing high power density, a multiple objective optimization process was carried out to comprehensively rank performances. To meet a fault tolerance target, electrical, magnetic and thermal isolation topologies were investigated and compared, among which 18 slot/12 pole with dual three-phase was selected as the optimal one, with a power density of 7.9 kW/kg. Finally, a finite element analysis verified the performance in normal and post-fault scenarios. The candidate machine has merits concerning high power density and post-fault performance. Full article
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Leakage Inductances of Transformers at Arbitrarily Located Windings
by Marcin Jaraczewski and Tadeusz Sobczyk
Energies 2020, 13(23), 6464; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13236464 - 07 Dec 2020
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The article presents the calculation of the leakage inductance in power transformers. As a rule, the leakage flux in the transformer window is represented by the short-circuit inductance, which affects the short-circuit voltage, and this is a very important factor for power transformers. [...] Read more.
The article presents the calculation of the leakage inductance in power transformers. As a rule, the leakage flux in the transformer window is represented by the short-circuit inductance, which affects the short-circuit voltage, and this is a very important factor for power transformers. This inductance reflects the typical windings of power transformers well, but is insufficient for special transformers or in any case of the internal asymmetry of windings. This paper presents a methodology for calculations of the self- and mutual-leakage inductances for windings arbitrarily located in the air window. It is based on the 2D approach for analyzing the stray field in the air zone only, using discrete partial differential operators. That methodology is verified with the finite element method tested on real transformer data. Full article
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