The Study of the Air Gap Optimization for the Liquid-Cooled and Embedded Eddy Current Retarder Considering Thermal Deformation

Author(s):  
Jinshan Tian ◽  
Desheng Li ◽  
Keyan Ning ◽  
Lezhi Ye ◽  
Kai Zhang ◽  
...  
Actuators ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Teemu Sillanpää ◽  
Alexander Smirnov ◽  
Pekko Jaatinen ◽  
Jouni Vuojolainen ◽  
Niko Nevaranta ◽  
...  

Non-contact rotor position sensors are an essential part of control systems in magnetically suspended high-speed drives. In typical active magnetic bearing (AMB) levitated high-speed machine applications, the displacement of the rotor in the mechanical air gap is measured with commercially available eddy current-based displacement sensors. The aim of this paper is to propose a robust and compact three-dimensional position sensor that can measure the rotor displacement of an AMB system in both the radial and axial directions. The paper presents a sensor design utilizing only a single unified sensor stator and a single shared rotor mounted target piece surface to achieve the measurement of all three measurement axes. The sensor uses an inductive measuring principle to sense the air gap between the sensor stator and rotor piece, which makes it robust to surface variations of the sensing target. Combined with the sensor design, a state of the art fully digital signal processing chain utilizing synchronous in-phase and quadrature demodulation is presented. The feasibility of the proposed sensor design is verified in a closed-loop control application utilizing a 350-kW, 15,000-r/min high-speed industrial induction machine with magnetic bearing suspension. The inductive sensor provides an alternative solution to commercial eddy current displacement sensors. It meets the application requirements and has a robust construction utilizing conventional electrical steel lamination stacks and copper winding.


Actuators ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Tomislav Strinić ◽  
Bianca Wex ◽  
Gerald Jungmayr ◽  
Thomas Stallinger ◽  
Jörg Frevert ◽  
...  

A sealless pump, also known as a wet rotor pump or a canned pump, requires a stationary sleeve in the air gap to protect the stator from a medium that flows around the rotor and the pump impeller. Since the sleeve is typically made from a non-magnetic electrically conductive material, the time-varying magnetic flux density in the air gap creates an eddy current loss in the sleeve. Precise assessment of this loss is crucial for the design of the pump. This paper presents a method for calculating the eddy current loss in such sleeves by using only a two-dimensional (2D) finite element method (FEM) solver. The basic idea is to use the similar structure of Ampère’s circuital law and Faraday’s law of induction to solve eddy current problems with a magnetostatic solver. The theoretical background behind the proposed method is explained and applied to the sleeve of a sealless pump. Finally, the results obtained by a 2D FEM approach are verified by three-dimensional FEM transient simulations.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ning Mao ◽  
Desheng Li ◽  
Jinshan Tian ◽  
Zhiwei Gao ◽  
Weixin Chen

2011 ◽  
Vol 480-481 ◽  
pp. 1134-1139
Author(s):  
Jian Ming Shen ◽  
Cheng Ye Liu

Eddy current retarder was a retarder braking set used in an automobile, and it can transform kinetic energy or mechanical energy of the automobile into heat energy, and heat energy was emitted around environment by the blades founded in the rotor of eddy current retarder, so flow field within the blade had direct effect on heat elimination and braking performance. In this paper two styles of 2D computational model for the rotor had been established. The flow field between and out of blades were analyzed by using RNG Κ-ε model and energy equation. The velocity distribution, pressure distribution between blades, static pressure on work face and rear face of the blade along radial direction all were accepted. The pressure, velocity and air flux for two styles of the blades had been compared. Numerical analysis of flow field was in favor of improved structure design for the blade.


2017 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbo Qiu ◽  
Wenfei Yu ◽  
Yonghui Li ◽  
Cunxiang Yang

AbstractAt present, the drivers with different control methods are used in most of permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM). A current outputted by a driver contains a large number of harmonics that will cause the PMSM torque ripple, winding heating and rotor temperature rise too large and so on. In this paper, in order to determine the influence of the current harmonics on the motor performance, different harmonic currents were injected into the motor armature. Firstly, in order to study the influence of the current harmonic on the motor magnetic field, a novel decoupling method of the motor magnetic field was proposed. On this basis, the difference of harmonic content in an air gap magnetic field was studied, and the influence of a harmonic current on the air gap flux density was obtained. Secondly, by comparing the fluctuation of the motor torque in the fundamental and different harmonic currents, the influence of harmonic on a motor torque ripple was determined. Then, the influence of different current harmonics on the eddy current loss of the motor was compared and analyzed, and the influence of the drive harmonic on the eddy current loss was obtained. Finally, by using a finite element method (FEM), the motor temperature distribution with different harmonics was obtained.


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