Thermal management of a permanent magnet motor for an directly coupled pump

Xu, Z.; Al-Timimy, A.; Degano, Michele; Giangrande, Paolo; Lo Calzo, Giovanni; Zhang, He; Galea, Michael; Gerada, C.

Abstract

A high speed permanent magnet motor is designed for a flooded industrial pump. Oil in the pump is used to cool the motor. Due to the limitation of space and mass requirement for the application, thermal management is one of the main challenges. This paper describes the thermal management optimization process and design of the machine. Different cooling strategies are applied to cool the machine and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is used to predict and improve the cooling performance. The machine has been designed and is currently being manufactured.

Citation

Xu, Z., Al-Timimy, A., Degano, M., Giangrande, P., Lo Calzo, G., Zhang, H., …Gerada, C. (2016). Thermal management of a permanent magnet motor for an directly coupled pump.

• Conference Name: International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM 2016)
• End Date: Sep 7, 2016
• Acceptance Date: Jun 14, 2016
• Publication Date: Sep 7, 2016
• Deposit Date: Mar 7, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 7, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: Thermal management, CFD, Lumped parameter, Permanent magnetic, Aerospace, Mechanical design
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• Publisher URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7732909/
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