1. A Six-Phase 24-Slot/10-Pole Permanent-Magnet Machine With Low Space Harmonics for Electric Vehicle Applications.
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Abdel-Khalik, Ayman S., Ahmed, Shehab, and Massoud, Ahmed M.
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PERMANENT magnets , *ELECTRIC vehicles , *HARMONIC analysis (Mathematics) , *FINITE element method , *TORQUE , *MAGNETIC cores - Abstract
This paper proposes a six-phase surface-mounted permanent-magnet machine with a 24-slot/10-pole fractional slot winding, which not only eliminates the air-gap flux subharmonics, but also minimizes the effect of slot harmonics, which highly affect both the core and magnet losses. The six-phase winding design also offers an improved drive train availability for electric vehicle applications due to its inherent high fault-tolerant capability. When compared with a three-phase design, the proposed winding offers approximately 3.5% improvement in torque density, a significant reduction in both the core and magnet losses, and an improved overall efficiency. The proposed winding is deduced based on the stator shifting concept of two 12-slot/10-pole stators with single tooth windings. The coil span of the resulting machine will be two slots, which stands as a compromise between single tooth and distributed windings. The concept of stator shifting is first presented, and then, a prototype machine is designed and simulated using the 2-D finite-element analysis to validate the proposed concept. A comparative study is also carried out to compare six-phase and three-phase designs with the same slot/pole combination and also with the 18-slot/10-pole combination, which was recently shown to be a competitive alternative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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