Pub Date : 2024-09-10DOI: 10.1109/OJIA.2024.3430047
David Klink;Matthew J. Bagnara;Greg Heins;Behrooz Bahrani
Permanent magnets are popular for electric vehicle rotors due to their high energy density, making them excellent candidates for high-torque and high-speed machines. The downside of a permanent magnet machine is the inability to regulate the rotor field, creating nonideal behavior during high-speed or low-load operation, and potentially resulting in high currents and voltages in fault conditions. Several solutions to this have been explored, such as interior permanent magnet (combined reluctance and permanent magnet rotors), “hybrid” wound field and permanent magnet rotors, and variable flux machines with in-situ magnetization control or mechanical field weakening. This article proposes a novel method of regulating the air gap in axial flux machines, allowing for a low-cost mechanism allowing two degree of freedom operation without additional power electronics or modifications to the magnetics. The proposed method uses stacked linear springs to create a nonlinear bias against the attraction force, and then leverages direct axis current to control the air gap. The ideal constant current optimized field weakening spring curve is presented and the proposed concept is experimentally validated on a single-stator single-rotor axial flux machine.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1109/OJIA.2024.3451990
Nicolas E. Lima Baschera;Alessandro Lidozzi;Giuseppe Zummo;Luca Saraceno;Fabio Riccardi;Fernando Ortenzi;Marco di Benedetto;Luca Solero
This article deals with a comprehensive analysis and performance evaluation of a fully integrated two-phase cooling system for power converters. A suitable test bed has been properly manufactured to perform the experimental campaign for the evaluation of the benefits and to deploy a dedicated management procedure of the two-phase cooling. The system is tested under real operating conditions, in which the system is employed for cooling a 1200-V 100-A insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) power module of an inverter controlling a permanent magnet synchronous machine. The experimental results show the inverter temperature behavior in start-up for different flow rates of coolant and different temperatures of the fluid on the secondary system. In the steady-state operation, using lower coolant flow rates in the primary circuit achieved equal or even better cooling for the IGBT module compared with higher flow rates. With respect to traditional cooling approaches, the proposed arrangement allows a greater extraction of the heat at a very low flow rate of the cooling fluid, even with standard industrial grade heat sinks, which motivates the use of this cooling technology for the next generation of power electronics converters.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-12DOI: 10.1109/OJIA.2024.3441308
Filipe Pinarello Scalcon;Gaoliang Fang;Cesar José Volpato Filho;Sumedh Dhale;Babak Nahid-Mobarakeh
The large dc-link current is a known issue in switched reluctance motor (SRM) drives, which often demand the use of a bulky dc-link capacitor. However, control techniques can be designed and optimized to lessen this issue. In this context, this article proposes the optimization of analytical torque sharing functions (TSFs) for dc-link current reduction in SRMs. Initially, the analytical TSFs are described, and the importance of adequate parameter selection is highlighted. Next, an optimization procedure based on the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm II is proposed to determine the optimal turn- on