Professor MICHELE DEGANO's Outputs (8)

Comparison of flux observers for sensorless control of permanent magnet assisted SynRel motors (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Concari, L., Toscani, A., Barater, D., Concari, C., Degano, M., & Pellegrino, G. (2016, October). Comparison of flux observers for sensorless control of permanent magnet assisted SynRel motors. Presented at IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Florence, Italy

This paper proposes the comparison among different sensorless position estimation strategies suitable for permanent magnet assisted synchronous reluctance machine drives. A machine of such type was designed and optimized aiming at improving its senso... Read More about Comparison of flux observers for sensorless control of permanent magnet assisted SynRel motors.

History and recent advancements of electric propulsion and integrated electrical power systems for commercial & naval vessels (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yang, T., Cox, T., Degano, M., Bozhko, S., & Gerada, C. History and recent advancements of electric propulsion and integrated electrical power systems for commercial & naval vessels. Presented at International Naval & Maritime Exhibition and Congress for Latin America, ExpoNAVAL 2016

Due to developments in power electronics, electric machines, energy storage and control, electric propulsion and integrated electrical power systems have become major trends for commercial and naval vessels. This is mainly due to the fact that the us... Read More about History and recent advancements of electric propulsion and integrated electrical power systems for commercial & naval vessels.

Trade-off analysis and design of a high power density PM machine for flooded industrial pump (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Timimy, A., Degano, M., Xu, Z., Lo Calzo, G., Giangrande, P., Galea, M., Gerada, C., & Zhang, H. Trade-off analysis and design of a high power density PM machine for flooded industrial pump. Presented at 42nd Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

This paper presents the trade-off analysis and design of a high power-density machine for industrial pump applications. The developed permanent magnet synchronous machine drives an electric, oil flooded pump. Different slot/pole combination and windi... Read More about Trade-off analysis and design of a high power density PM machine for flooded industrial pump.

Improved damper cage design for salient-pole synchronous generators (2016)
Journal Article
Nuzzo, S., Degano, M., Galea, M., Gerada, C., Gerada, D., & Brown, N. (2017). Improved damper cage design for salient-pole synchronous generators. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 64(3), 1958-1970. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2016.2619321

© 2016 IEEE. The benefits of implementing a damper winding in salient-pole synchronous generators are widely known and well consolidated. It is also well known that such a winding incurs extra losses in the machine due to a number of reasons. In orde... Read More about Improved damper cage design for salient-pole synchronous generators.

Distributed current control for multi-three phase synchronous machines in fault conditions (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Galassini, A., Costabeber, A., Degano, M., Gerada, C., Tessarolo, A., & Castellan, S. Distributed current control for multi-three phase synchronous machines in fault conditions. Presented at XXIIth International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM'2016)

Among challenges and requirements of on-going electrification process and future transportation systems there is demand for arrangements with both increased fault tolerance and reliability. Next aerospace, power-train and automotive systems exploitin... Read More about Distributed current control for multi-three phase synchronous machines in fault conditions.

Thermal management of a permanent magnet motor for an directly coupled pump (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Xu, Z., Al-Timimy, A., Degano, M., Giangrande, P., Lo Calzo, G., Zhang, H., Galea, M., & Gerada, C. Thermal management of a permanent magnet motor for an directly coupled pump. Presented at International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM 2016)

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... Read More about Thermal management of a permanent magnet motor for an directly coupled pump.

Design and optimization of a high power density machine for flooded industrial pump (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Timimy, A., Degano, M., Giangrande, P., Lo Calzo, G., Xu, Z., Galea, M., Gerada, C., Zhang, H., & Xia, L. Design and optimization of a high power density machine for flooded industrial pump. Presented at 22nd International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM 2016)

This paper presents the design optimization procedure of a high power-density, permanent magnet synchronous machine for industrial pump applications. The designed machine drives an electric, oil flooded pump. In order to achieve higher torque-density... Read More about Design and optimization of a high power density machine for flooded industrial pump.

Synchronous reluctance machine analytical model optimization and validation through finite element analysis (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Degano, M., Mahmoud, H., Bianchi, N., & Gerada, C. (2016, September). Synchronous reluctance machine analytical model optimization and validation through finite element analysis. Presented at 2016 XXII International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM 2016), Lausanne, Switzerland

Synchronous reluctance motors with rotor flux barriers are a promising type of electric machines thanks to various benefits, among the others, the absence of permanent magnets and rotor excitation. However, these kind of machines has high torque ripp... Read More about Synchronous reluctance machine analytical model optimization and validation through finite element analysis.