Affiliation:
1. Electrical Machines and Drives Group The University of Sheffield Sheffield UK
2. Protean Electric Ltd. Farnham UK
Abstract
AbstractThe influences of slot/pole number combinations on electromagnetic performances, including flux linkage, inductance, and torque ripple harmonic components etc., resulting from unbalanced characteristics between north and south poles in concentrated winding permanent magnet (PM) machines with symmetrical and asymmetric rotor pole shaping methods are theoretically analysed and experimentally validated in this paper. It shows that for the PM machines with odd number of coils per phase per submachine, including consequent pole (CP) and surface‐mounted PM (SPM) machines, the influences of unbalanced pole characteristics can lead to additional torque ripple harmonics due to additive effects in windings, but can be cancelled in other machines. Compared with symmetrical pole shaping method, asymmetric pole shaping method can result in lower torque ripple for CPPM machines with odd number of coils per phase per submachine, while symmetrical and asymmetric pole shapes have similar effects on torque ripple reduction for other CPPM machines and all the SPM machines. The findings have been validated by finite element analyses on 12‐slot/8‐pole, 12‐slot/10‐pole, 9‐slot/6‐pole, and 12‐slot/14‐pole machines, and by experiments with 12‐slot/8‐pole and 12‐slot/10‐pole CPPM prototypes.
Publisher
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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