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Abstract
Reluctance Synchronous Motors combine high efciency and
high torque density in a limited speed range. This type of machine is increasingly becoming an alternative to Induction Machines, especially for pumps and industrial drives. However,
the torque ripple of RSM, caused by the spatial variation of
the machine ux and reluctance, needs to be considered during the design process. This paper presents an approach of
torque ripple reduction using asymmetric ux barrier angles
and a ipped rotor structure to compensate certain torque harmonics by superposition. With the described design process,
the resulting torque ripple is strongly reduced without loosing
average torque.
This section presents the design process starting with a common machine design and completing with the ux barrier angle
optimization for torque ripple reduction. The torque ripple reduction method is performed after a draft design, evaluation
and geometry adaption, followed by a detailed FEA optimization of the machine as shown in Fig. 1.
Introduction
Design Process
Geometry Design
360
NStatorslot
(1)
The primary goal of all torque ripple optimizations is to eliminate or compensate the ux harmonic effects in the machine.
The ux harmonics are caused by the discrete stator teeth and
slots as well as the rotor teeth of the reluctance motor. As
mentioned in section 2 different methods for torque ripple reduction have been proposed in literature. This paper presents a
method where variing the barrier angles leads to a phase shift
of the ux harmonics. Especially the mechanical point symmetry is not lost and mechanical imbalance of the rotor can
be avoided. The proposed method eliminates the stator slot
harmonics signicantly with the help of superposition without
loosing motor performance.
(2)
(3)
2,min = symmetric Stator
|1 2 |
Stator
(4)
2
The exact barrier angle needs to be determined by detailed nite element calculations considering the magnetic saturation
and the current angle of the preferred operating point. Especially the placement of the ux barriers within the rotor inuences the resulting angle values. If multiple ux barriers
are used, the inner and outer barriers are kept parallel to each
other. Thereby the leading ux path and saturation behaviour
of the machine is kept nearly constant. The resulting front view
of the example machine with two rotor segments is shown in
Fig. 4 on the left.
Results
Fig. 10: Initial and nal rotor design of the 36 slot machine
age torque can be noted. The torque characteristics of both
machines before and after applying the proposed method of
ripple reduction are listed and compared in Table 1.
Torig,avg
Torig,ripple
Tavg
Tripple
24 slot machine
12.9 Nm
2.9 Nm
12.13 Nm
1.1 Nm
36 slot machine
12.4 Nm
1.8 Nm
12.1 Nm
0.2 Nm
Conclusion
References
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T. Miller, pc-bdc,, University of Glasgow and Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering., Tech.
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