Reliable Design of PMaSynRM

Abstract

Electric vehicles require highly reliable and resilient electric motors, due to the harsh operating conditions they must withstand. To this end, there is a current trend to design rareearth-free machines. Traction electric motors must be optimized in terms of efficiency, torque density, power factor, constant power speed ratio, and cost. Although different technologies are available, permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance motors (PMa-SynRM) are promising candidates for such applications. Nowadays, the optimal design process of electrical motors is based on finite element method (FEM) simulations. However, it is very time consuming with a heavy computational burden process, so in order to speed up the optimization process, it is very appealing to have an accurate pre-design of the machine. In this chapter, the electromagnetic pre-design of a PMaSynRM is developed. In the proposed electromagnetic pre-design process, the geometry of the machine is calculated based on analytical equations that take into account the thermal, electrical, magnetic, and mechanical behavior of the machine to ensure a suitable and reliable design.

Finite element analysis and experimental verification of high reliability synchronous reluctance machine

“…Due to high reliability and low manufacturing costs [20,22], as well as dynamic development in the field of power electronic converters and complex control algorithms [28,29], in many research teams around the world more and more attention is paid to synchronous reluctance machine (SynRM) [9]. From the point of view of mechanical design, with respect to the commonly used squirrel-cage induction machines, SynRM machines differ in the rotor construction.…”