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Professor CHRISTOPHER GERADA's Outputs (4)

Thermal Design of an Integrated Inductor for 45kW Aerospace Starter-Generator (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
La Rocca, A., Khowja, M. R., Vakil, G., Gerada, C., Wheeler, P., & Yan, L. (2020, June). Thermal Design of an Integrated Inductor for 45kW Aerospace Starter-Generator. Presented at ITEC 2020 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, Chicago, Illinois, USA (held online)

This paper presents a combined electromagnetic and thermal design of integrated inductor, for the application of a 45kW aircraft starter-generator. The inductor is designed at high current density by using the apporach ofarea product, followed by the... Read More about Thermal Design of an Integrated Inductor for 45kW Aerospace Starter-Generator.

New Three-Phase Current Reconstruction for PMSM Drive With Hybrid Space Vector Pulsewidth Modulation Technique (2020)
Journal Article
Wang, W., Yan, H., Xu, Y., Zou, J., Zhang, X., Zhao, W., Buticchi, G., & Gerada, C. (2021). New Three-Phase Current Reconstruction for PMSM Drive With Hybrid Space Vector Pulsewidth Modulation Technique. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 36(1), 662-673. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpel.2020.2997986

Current sensing techniques with reduced number of sensors attract a high interest from industry, for the possibility of cost reduction and sampling mismatch reduction. This article puts forward a new single current sensor (SCS) method for a permanent... Read More about New Three-Phase Current Reconstruction for PMSM Drive With Hybrid Space Vector Pulsewidth Modulation Technique.

Rotor Eddy Current Loss and Multiphysics Fields Analysis for a High-Speed Permanent Magnet Machine (2020)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Wang, H., & Gerada, C. (2021). Rotor Eddy Current Loss and Multiphysics Fields Analysis for a High-Speed Permanent Magnet Machine. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 68(6), 5100-5111. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2020.2988192

High-speed permanent magnet machine (HSPMM) design is considered with particular attention paid to machine electromagnetic, thermal, and mechanical analyses. In this article, a 140-kW, 15 000 r/min HSPMM is designed with its power losses evaluated at... Read More about Rotor Eddy Current Loss and Multiphysics Fields Analysis for a High-Speed Permanent Magnet Machine.

Electric drive systems with long feeder cables (2020)
Journal Article
Xie, P., Vakil, G., & Gerada, C. (2020). Electric drive systems with long feeder cables. IET Electric Power Applications, 14(1), 16-30. https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-epa.2018.5507

Electric drive systems with long feeder cables connecting inverter and machine are used for oil exploration, mining, remote operated vehicles, industrial, and aerospace applications. Though this topology has the advantage of providing a better operat... Read More about Electric drive systems with long feeder cables.