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High Power High Speed PM-Assisted SynRel Machines with Ferrite and Rare Earth Magnets for Future Electric Commercial Vehicles (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kumar, R. M. R., Zou, T., La Rocca, A., Vakil, G., Gerada, D., Walker, A., Gerada, C., Paciura, K., McQueen, A., & Fernandes, B. G. (2019, October). High Power High Speed PM-Assisted SynRel Machines with Ferrite and Rare Earth Magnets for Future Electric Commercial Vehicles. Presented at 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2019), Lisbon, Portugal

High power density and high torque density are the fundamental requirements for electric machines used in traction application. The former is obtained by potentially increasing the speed of the machine while the latter by using high energy density ra... Read More about High Power High Speed PM-Assisted SynRel Machines with Ferrite and Rare Earth Magnets for Future Electric Commercial Vehicles.

Enhancing the Torque Density of Conventional PM-SynRel Machine with Hybrid Flux Barrier (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kumar, R. M. R., Vakil, G., Gerada, D., Walker, A., La Rocca, S., Al-Ani, M., Gerada, C., Paciura, K., McQueen, A., & Fernandes, B. G. (2019, October). Enhancing the Torque Density of Conventional PM-SynRel Machine with Hybrid Flux Barrier. Presented at 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2019), Lisbon, Portugal

Electrical machines with high torque density are required for traction application. Availability of bonded magnets with complex shapes and magnetization pattern can significantly extend the design space of electrical machines. This paper introduces a... Read More about Enhancing the Torque Density of Conventional PM-SynRel Machine with Hybrid Flux Barrier.

Numerical study of the impact of different cooling arrangements on a high length/diameter ratio motor for electric commercial vehicle (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
La Rocca, S., La Rocca, A., Walker, A., Vakil, G., Gerada, D., Al-Ani, M., Zou, T., Ramanathan, R., Gerada, C., McQueen, A., & Paciura, K. (2019, October). Numerical study of the impact of different cooling arrangements on a high length/diameter ratio motor for electric commercial vehicle. Presented at International Conference on Electrotechnical Complexes and Systems (ICOECS 2019), Ufa, Russia

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) was used to carry out a fluid flow and thermal investigation of a high power dense traction machine for electric commercial vehicle. One of the features of the machine design considered is the high Length/Diameter (... Read More about Numerical study of the impact of different cooling arrangements on a high length/diameter ratio motor for electric commercial vehicle.

Rotor UMP & Mechanical Response in HSPMSM in Typical Running Conditions (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
He, Y.-L., Vakil, G., Zhang, X.-C., Gao, P., Gerada, D., & Gerada, C. (2019, September). Rotor UMP & Mechanical Response in HSPMSM in Typical Running Conditions. Presented at 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2019, Baltimore, MD, USA

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis on the rotor unbalanced magnetic pull (UMP) and the consequent mechanical response in 6 typical running conditions in a 20000 rpm high speed permanent magnet synchronous motor (HSPMSM) through finite eleme... Read More about Rotor UMP & Mechanical Response in HSPMSM in Typical Running Conditions.

Comparative Analysis of AC losses with round magnet wire and Litz wire winding of a High – Speed PM Machine (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bardalai, A., Zhang, X., Zou, T., Gerada, D., Li, J., & Gerada, C. (2019, August). Comparative Analysis of AC losses with round magnet wire and Litz wire winding of a High – Speed PM Machine. Presented at 2019 22nd International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), Harbin, China

The growing trend of high speed, high power density machines for applications such as EVs, aerospace and machine tools demand these machines to work at higher electrical frequencies. Meanwhile, increasing the fundamental frequency leads to pronounced... Read More about Comparative Analysis of AC losses with round magnet wire and Litz wire winding of a High – Speed PM Machine.

Dual-Pulse Mode Control of a High-Speed Doubly Salient Electromagnetic Machine for Loss Reduction and Speed Range Extension (2019)
Journal Article
Yu, L., Zhang, Z., Bian, Z., Gerada, D., & Gerada, C. (2019). Dual-Pulse Mode Control of a High-Speed Doubly Salient Electromagnetic Machine for Loss Reduction and Speed Range Extension. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 67(6), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2019.2931253

In this paper, a dual-pulse mode control of a high-speed doubly salient electromagnetic machine (DSEM) for efficiency improvement over a wide speed range is investigated and implemented. The dual-pulse mode control method and operation principle are... Read More about Dual-Pulse Mode Control of a High-Speed Doubly Salient Electromagnetic Machine for Loss Reduction and Speed Range Extension.

Challenges of the optimization of a high-speed induction machine for naval applications (2019)
Journal Article
Buticchi, G., Gerada, D., Alberti, L., Galea, M., Wheeler, P., Bozhko, S., Peresada, S., Zhang, H., Zhang, C., & Gerada, C. (2019). Challenges of the optimization of a high-speed induction machine for naval applications. Energies, 12(12), Article 2431. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12122431

In several industrial sectors, induction machines are being replaced with permanent magnet based alternatives, owing to the potential for higher power density and efficiency. However, high-speed applications feature a wide flux-weakening region, wher... Read More about Challenges of the optimization of a high-speed induction machine for naval applications.

A Holistic Electrical Machine Design Tool for More-Electric and Hybrid-Electric Aircraft (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Golovanov, D., Xu, Z., Gerada, D., Gerada, C., & Papini, L. (2018, November). A Holistic Electrical Machine Design Tool for More-Electric and Hybrid-Electric Aircraft. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC), Nottingham, UK

The power density of electrical machines required for more-electric and hybrid-electric aircraft has become a critical aspect and target of optimization. This paper looks at the development aspects of a multi-domain tool to aid for system-level optim... Read More about A Holistic Electrical Machine Design Tool for More-Electric and Hybrid-Electric Aircraft.

Design and Mathematical Modeling of Gearless SMC Flux Reversal Motor (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prakht, V., Golovanov, D., Dmitrievskii, V., Gerada, D., & Kazakbaev, V. (2018, November). Design and Mathematical Modeling of Gearless SMC Flux Reversal Motor. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC), Nottingham, UK

© 2018 IEEE. This paper considers the design of a three-phase gearless flux reversal machine (FRM) with permanent magnets (PM) mounted on the stator. Its stator magnetic core is made of a solid soft magnetic composite material (SMC) with a slot for l... Read More about Design and Mathematical Modeling of Gearless SMC Flux Reversal Motor.

Performance Comparison of Doubly Salient Reluctance Generators for High-Voltage DC Power System of More Electric Aircraft (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, Y., Zhang, Z., Gerada, D., & Gerada, C. (2018, November). Performance Comparison of Doubly Salient Reluctance Generators for High-Voltage DC Power System of More Electric Aircraft. Presented at 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electrical Systems for Aircraft, Railway, Ship Propulsion and Road Vehicles & International Transportation Electrification Conference (ESARS-ITEC), Nottingham, UK

The generation performance of the switched reluctance machine (SRM)-based starter/generator (S/G) and the doubly salient electromagnetic machine (DSEM)-based S/G is analyzed and compared in this paper. The topologies, operation principles of the doub... Read More about Performance Comparison of Doubly Salient Reluctance Generators for High-Voltage DC Power System of More Electric Aircraft.