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Considerations on the effects that core material machining has on an electrical machine's performance

Al-Timimy, A.; Vakil, Gaurang; Degano, Michele; Giangrande, Paolo; Gerada, Chris; Galea, Michael

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Authors

A. Al-Timimy

Paolo Giangrande

Michael Galea



Abstract

An often-overlooked aspect during the development process of electrical machines, is the validity and accuracy of the machine material properties being used at the design stage. Designers usually consider the data provided by the materials supplier, which is measured on material in an unprocessed state. However, the fact that the machining processes required to produce the finished product (e.g. the stator core) can permanently vary the material properties is very often neglected. This paper therefore deals with and investigates the effects that such processes can have on the overall machine performance. To do this, three sets of material data, based on 1) the materials suppliers’ data, 2) materials data based on conventional characterization methods and 3) materials data based on test samples that include the manufacturing processes, are used to develop three versions of the same baseline machine. The results of these three machines are then compared and the resulting variations of the machine’s performance presented and described.
The chosen baseline machine is a high performance and relatively high speed, aerospace, electrical machine. Special attention is focused on the efficiency maps of the machine as this aspect is highly dependent on the material properties that are the most sensitive to manufacturing processes such as the material’s anhysteretic BH curve and its specific core loss.

Citation

Al-Timimy, A., Vakil, G., Degano, M., Giangrande, P., Gerada, C., & Galea, M. (2018). Considerations on the effects that core material machining has on an electrical machine's performance. IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion, 33(3), 1154-1163. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEC.2018.2808041

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 9, 2018
Online Publication Date Feb 19, 2018
Publication Date Sep 30, 2018
Deposit Date Mar 6, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 6, 2018
Journal IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
Print ISSN 0885-8969
Electronic ISSN 1558-0059
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 33
Issue 3
Pages 1154-1163
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/TEC.2018.2808041
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/910983
Publisher URL http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8295137/
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