Open-Circuit Fault-Tolerant Characteristics of a New Four-Phase Doubly Salient Electro-Magnetic Generator

Abstract

In order to improve the reliability of a more sustainable mobility generator, a four-phase Doubly Salient Electro-Magnetic Generator (DSEG) and its phase-isolated rectifier are proposed in this paper. The mathematical model of the machine and fault-tolerant rectifiers is proposed, which indicates that the four-phase fault-tolerant DSEG should have symmetric phases. With the asymmetry analysis of the traditional 8/6-pole DSEG, a new 12/9-pole DSEG with symmetric phases is proposed. The four-phase full bridge rectifier, positive half-wave rectifier and four-phase H bridge rectifier are presented. The voltage waveforms, no-load characteristics and loading characteristics with different rectifiers will be given based on the simulation and the experiment on a prototype of DSEG, and the results show that the four-phase H bridge rectifier has the best fault tolerant no-load characteristic and external characteristic, except that it needs more diodes.