Design of High-Efficiency Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine with Stator Flux Barriers and Single-Layer Concentrated Windings Volodymyr Bilyi, Dieter Gerling Abstract-- This paper presents the design of a highperformance 14-pole, 12-slot interior permanent magnet synchronous machine with flux barriers inside the stator iron core and fractional-slot concentrated windings. This work focuses on electromagnetic, mechanical and thermal aspects of the machine design. The specific goal of this work was to design an electrical machine, which will have a small size, high power-to-weight ratio, high efficiency, especially at part-load operating points, and high speed capability for traction drive applications. Therefore the unconventional stator design is used. The proposed machine design was compared with the conventional one, concerning the magnetic saturation, spectrum of the magneto-motive force and produced torque. To ensure the high speed capability of the motor, the numerical structural analysis of the rotor is shown. Temperature behavior inside of the designed motor at steadystate operating point is shown. Index Terms-- Electromagnetic analysis, finite element analysis, materials, mechanical analysis, machines, permanent magnet, thermal analysis, efficiency, electric vehicle, concentrated winding. I I. INTRODUCTION N the past years, significant improvements in the production and quality of the electromagnetic materials were achieved. Modern iron alloys can be used for different purposes, i.e. to withstand a high mechanical stress, for example due to the high rotational speed, or such to minimize the amount of iron loss inside of the core at certain frequencies. Also, modern rare-earth magnet materials are becoming better, concerning the maximum operating temperature and magnetic properties. The enhancements in the battery production technology have made them cheaper and increased their lifetime and energy content. These achievements in the material production and V. Bilyi is a research assistant at the Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Chair of Electrical Drives and Actuators, Neubiberg 85577, Germany (e-mail: Volodymyr.Bilyi@unibw.de). D. Gerling is Full Professor at the Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Chair of Electrical Drives and Actuators, Neubiberg 85577, Germany (e-mail: Dieter.Gerling@unibw.de) 978-1-4799-7940-0/15/$31.00 ©2015 IEEE also the recent scientific work on the improvement of electrical machines have made them great candidates for the application in electric and hybrid vehicles as a traction drive. Every single application has a certain specific set of specifications. To use the electrical motor as a traction drive in electric vehicle, it has to fulfill the main requirements: high overall efficiency, especially in part load, short active length, high power-to-weight ratio, high flux-weakening capability on the wide constant-power speed range, mechanical stability at high speed, low torque pulsation, low vibration and noise levels, high fault tolerance and low manufacturing cost. Permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSM) commonly have the highest efficiency and power density among all electrical machines. Despite the not directly controllable intensity of the magnetic field due to permanent magnets, flux-weakening operation is possible. However, the interior PMSM (IPMSM) have a better fluxweakening capability [1]. Moreover, there is no need for non-magnetic bandage fixation of the permanent magnets (PM) due to a high rotational speed [2]. Also, IPMSM tend to have less amount of magnet loss, due to the deeper placement of the magnets inside of the rotor core [3]. There are two main winding topologies which are used for stator excitation. These are the distributed and the concentrated windings. In this work the concentrated winding is considered. The fractional slot concentrated windings (FSCW) are widely used in different applications in order to increase the copper fill factor inside of the stator slots and therefore to minimize copper loss and also to reduce the machine length in comparison with a distributed winding, due to its shorter stator end-windings [4]. In addition, modular construction of the stator core is possible in this case, so the simplified manufacturing process can be realized [5], which directly affects the production cost. In spite of all advantages of the IPMSM with FSCW there are several disadvantages, such as high number of space harmonics with high amplitude, which results in 1177 vibration and noise. To reduce the amplitude or even to completely avoid the undesirable harmonics in the magneto-motive force (MMF) spectrum, the novel stator design with flux barriers in stator core was suggested in [6]. In [7] and [8] authors investigate PM machines with stator flux barriers and validate the results on a prototype. This work focuses on the design of the IPMSM with stator flux barriers and FSCW for traction drive application to meet some specific set of requirements. Therefore electromagnetic, mechanical and thermal analyses are shown. II. ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS A. Requirements A set of specifications which is typical for automotive traction applications is shown in Table I. TABLE I SET OF REQIREMENTS 127 550 13000 7000 >95% 137 81 100 110 210 103 130 140 <5% <135 <185 <190 <25 Fig. 1. Flux density distribution under the rated load conditions in the conventional machine. B. Machine Design In order to get a good performance of the machine with FSCW, the behavior of the slot and pole numbers have to be carefully chosen. To simplify the manufacturing process, a single-layer FSCW is considered. At the beginning of the design process, a 28-pole, 24-slot topology was investigated, due to a high fundamental winding factor of 0.966, which directly affects the machine performance. However, through the relatively small specified stator diameter this topology was inappropriate, therefore a 14pole, 12-slot IPMSM, with a similar fundamental winding factor is selected. Every second tooth of the stator is equipped with a non-overlapping 3-phase concentrated winding. The number of slots per pole per phase is less than one. The rotor is equipped with 14 NdFeB permanent magnets. The following analysis was made for the ambient temperature of 90°C. To fulfill all requirements in Table I, the motor with following data was designed. Steel M235-35A was chosen as a material of the stator and rotor laminations, where 1 0.9 0.8 Normalized values Max. phase voltage [VRMS] Max. phase current [ARMS] Max. speed [rpm] Corner speed (rated torque) [rpm] Efficiency at corner speed Rated torque at ncorner [Nm] Torque at nmax [Nm] Rated power at ncorner [kW] Power at nmax [kW] Peak torque at ncorner [Nm] Peak torque at nmax [Nm] Peak power at ncorner [kW] Peak power at nmax [kW] Torque pulsation Rotor outer diameter [mm] Stator outer diameter [mm] Motor active length [mm] Total active weight [kg] single lamination sheet has a thickness of 0.35 mm and the saturation flux density of the material is 2T. Stacking factor is set to 0.95. This steel shows relatively good electromagnetic properties, concerning iron loss and magnetic saturation, and at the same time very good mechanical strength. NdFeB was picked as a material of PMs with coercivity of 957.9 kA/m (at 90°C). Maximum operating temperature of the magnets is 160°C. The dimensions of a single magnet segment are 21x5 mm. Airgap thickness between the rotor and the stator is set to 0.9 mm. Stator winding fill factor equals 0.5, which could be even higher in practice. The number of windings per coil is set to 4. The active length of the motor is 170 mm. Stator and rotor outer diameters are 180 and 132 mm, respectively. Therefore, all geometry requirements (Table I) were met. To compare the conventional and proposed motor designs, flux density distribution and spectrum of the magneto-motive force are considered. Fig. 1 and 3 and Fig. 2 and 4 show the flux density inside of the machine iron core at the rated load, and the normalized MMF spectrum for both designs, respectively. 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 Harmonic order Fig. 2. Air-gap magnitude under the rated load conditions in the conventional machine. There is a magnetic saturation in case of the first design (Fig. 1). It is caused by different reasons. One of them is the presence of harmonics with the lower order than the order 1178 investigated with a 2-D finite elements analysis (FEA). The results are shown in Fig. 5. The average mechanical torque production and torque pulsation in the conventional machine are 176 Nm and 10.5% at the peak load (550A) and corner speed, respectively. By adding the stator flux barriers, the value of the average torque is increased by 17% and the pulsation of the torque is only 4.4%. Adding the semicircular rotor notches has increased the torque by 5.1% and the pulsation of the torque is 2.1% at peak load. At the rated load of 350A the average torque and the pulsation of the torque are 137.7 Nm and 4.1%, respectively. 220 215 210 205 Torque, T [Nm] of working harmonic in the MMF spectrum and in the airgap (Fig. 2). In the case of 14-pole motor, the 7th harmonic is the working harmonic. The harmonics of lower order do not directly contribute to the torque production but have a negative effect on the motor performance, causing reduced torque with high pulsations, vibration and noise. In order to reduce the amplitude of the undesired harmonics, an alternative stator design is investigated. Fig. 3 shows the 2D model of the proposed machine. As can be seen, every second tooth is equipped with the stator flux barrier. Nonpermeable, non-conductive material or air can be used to produce the flux barriers. The rotor of the proposed machine is also equipped with notches on both sides of each magnet. This contributes to better flux focusing and to avoidance of flux short-circuits in the rotor and has a great effect on the mechanical stress reduction inside of the rotor. In Fig. 4 the air-gap magnitude of the proposed machine is shown. Amplitudes of the 1st and 5th harmonics are reduced in comparison with conventional design by 54% and 32%, respectively. Flux densities in the stator yoke and in the rotor core in the proposed design are become lower and have an optimal value (Fig. 3). 200 no barriers rotor barriers stator barriers stator and rotor barriers 195 190 185 180 175 170 165 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Time, t [ms] Fig. 5. Effect of the stator flux barriers and rotor notches on the produced torque. Fig. 6 shows the n-M curves of the motor under peakload and rated-load conditions. It is seen that the requirement concerning produced mechanical torque and mechanical power are met. 220 200 ph Average torque, Tavg [Nm] Fig. 3. Flux density distribution under the rated load conditions in the proposed machine. 1 0.9 Normalized values 0.8 0.7 160 140 120 ph 80 60 40 0.6 20 0.5 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Rotational speed, n [krpm] 0.4 Fig. 6. n-M curves under the rated and the peak load conditions. 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 IRMS = 350A 100 170 160 150 140 130 120 110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 13 Mechanical power, Pm [kW] IRMS = 550A 180 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 Harmonic order Fig. 4. Air-gap magnitude under the rated load conditions in the proposed machine. The effect of the stator flux barriers and rotor notches on the machine performance concerning produced torque was To see the effectiveness of the machine under different load conditions, the efficiency map has to be computed. To be able to compute the efficiency map on the whole operation range of the designed motor the values of losses in the machine are needed. C. Copper Loss Estimation By the copper loss calculation only DC ohmic loss is 1179 taken into account. The proximity and skin effects are not considered. The amount of copper losses Pcu can be expressed as a product of the phase current I to the power of two and the phase resistance Rph, which depends on the temperature and on the material properties. Pcu = 3 ⋅ I 2 ⋅ R ph (1) temperature behavior of the motor. This leads to the axial length of the single magnet segment of 6.8 mm. Fig. 8 gives the information about the eddy-current loss prediction inside the PMs under the different load conditions and with the segmented PMs. There is 244 W and 400 W eddy-current loss under the rated load (7000 rpm) and the peak load (6000 rpm) conditions, respectively. The amount of copper loss at the rated and at the peak load conditions are 1.2 kW and 3 kW, respectively. Endwindings are also taken into account. The calculation is made for the temperature of 90°C. 1.5 Eddy-current loss in PM, PM [kW] I D. Iron Loss Prediction For the iron loss estimation the numerical 2-D FEA model is used. The core loss PFe can be represented as a sum of hysteresis Ph, eddy-current Pc and excess Pe core loss: PFe = Ph + Pc + Pe (2) PFe = k h fB 2 + k c f 2 B 2 + k e f 1.5 B 1.5 RMS 1.35 = 550A ph IRMS = 450A ph 1.2 IRMS = 350A ph 1.05 I RMS = 250A ph 0.9 0.75 0.6 0.45 0.3 0.15 0 (3) 0 1 2 3 4 5 Where B is the amplitude of the AC flux component, f is the frequency, kh is the hysteresis core loss coefficient, kc is the eddy-current core loss coefficient and ke is the excess core loss coefficient. However, the 2-D FEA model does not allow considering the axial segmentation of the rotor PMs during the eddy-current loss computation inside the magnets. To take the segmentation into account and to investigate the dependency of the eddy-current loss due to the PMs on the number of magnet segments, for the specific axial machine length, a 3-D numerical model is made. Fig. 7 shows the reduction of the eddy-current loss in the magnets with increased number of magnet segments. This effect is similar to the effect of the stator and rotor lamination. The estimated iron loss values are 1.51 kW and 1.59 kW under the rated load (350 A and 7000 rpm) and peak load (550 A and 6000 rpm) conditions, respectively. Eddy-current loss in PM, PM [p.u.] 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Fig. 8. Eddy-current loss due to the PMs versus rotational speed under the different load conditions. E. Air-friction Loss Estimation The investigation of the mechanical friction loss of the electrical machine with high rotational speed is usually needed. This work considers only air-friction loss inside of the air-gap, due to the rotation of the rotor. Other mechanical losses are not taken into account. Windage loss can be derived as a product of the coefficient of the surface roughness kR (1 for smooth surface), friction coefficient CR, density of the medium ρ (1.2041 kg/m3 for air at 20°C), angular velocity of the rotor in the power of three, outer radius of the rotor Rro in the power of for and axial length of the rotor Lst [9-11]. PW = k R C R ρπω 3 R ro4 Lst (4) where: 1 CR = 0.9 0.8 0.0152 Re δ (5) and: 0.7 0.6 Re δ = 0.5 0.4 ρωRro δ μ (6) Where δ is the air-gap thickness and μ is the dynamic viscosity of the air. The calculated value of the air-friction loss is 61 W at the rotational speed of 13000 rpm. 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 6 Rotational speed, n [krpm] 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 Number of segments, NS Fig. 7. Eddy-current loss vs. the number of axial magnet segments. For the design of the proposed machine, 25 magnet segments was chosen in order to reduce the eddy-current loss inside the PMs, which is very important for F. Efficiency map computation After the loss calculation was done, it is possible to compute the efficiency map of the proposed motor under different load conditions. Fig. 9 shows the efficiency map of the designed motor. There is a big area of the highest 1180 efficiency of 97% and high part-loadd efficiency. The requirements concerning efficiency are met. concerning main mechanical properties of the rotor materials, which are used for thhe structural 2-D FEA. LE II TABL PROPERTIES OF RO OTOR MATERIALS Material Steel M235-35A Permanent magnets Fig. 9. Efficiency map of the designeed motor. G. 3-phase Short-circuit Simulation Despite having single-layer non--overlapping and therefore fault-tolerant concentrated windings, it is important to investigate the machine beehavior underfault conditions. In this work a symmetrical 3-pphase short-circuit is simulated. Fig. 10 shows the producedd torque under the short-circuit conditions versus rotational speed. s [p.u.] Value 7600 kg/m3 185 GPa 0.28 421 - 460 MPa 532 - 580 MPa 7700 kg/m3 140 GPa 0.24 600 MPa After defining the material properties, the simulation is performed. Temperature and magnetic m effects are not taken into account. The maximum mechanical m stress is achieved at a rotational speed of 156000 rpm, which is 120% of the maximum rotational speed of the t motor. It is seen, than the value of the stress is 448.1 MPa, M which is lower than the maximum value of the yield strength (460 MPa) for the chosen material, so there is onnly elastic deformation (Fig. 11). Beside the rotational speedd and the material properties, following parameters are imporrtant: • • 0 • • avg -0.2 Short-circuit torque, T K Phys. Properties P mass dennsity elastic modulus m Poisson‘s ratio yield streength tensile sttrength mass dennsity elastic modulus m Poisson‘s ratio compressive strength Outer rotor radius Size of the iron briddge between the magnets and the air-gap Size of the magnetss Shape of the notchees and their radius -0.4 -0.6 -0.8 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Rotational speed, n [krpm] Fig. 10. Produced torque in case of the 3-phaase short-circuit. The maximum torque of 80 Nm is produced at the rotational speed of 95 rpm. This value coould be critical for vehicle applications and should be takenn into account by adding fault detection systems. III. MECHANICAL ANALYSIS Because of the centrifugal forces due to the high rotational speeds of the rotor and presencee of the permanent magnets inside of the rotor with a higher mass density than the mass density of the iron, the mechhanical analysis is needed, to ensure that the mechanical sttress inside of the rotor does not exceed the limit. Also, the machine has to be capable of an overspeed of 120% of o the maximum rotational speed [12, 13]. Table II givees an information Fig. 11. Mechanical stress distributioon over the notch surface, under the steady-state rotational speed of 15600 rpm. r The mechanical stress at 7000 rpm and at 13000 rpm is 90.4 MPa and 311.1 MPa, respectively. o the effect of the rotor For better understanding of notches, the comparison betw ween two rotor topologies is made. The results are shown inn the Fig. 12. It can be seen that the maximum rotational speed of the rotor without notches, before the plastic defformation, is only 8600 rpm, which is slightly above the rateed speed of 7000 rpm. That is why the design without notches is inappropriate in this 1181 case. The proposed design of the rotor makes it possible to meet the requirements concerning the rotational speed. 200 180 160 550 Temperature, t [°C] Von Mises stress, σ [MPa] 500 Plastic deformation 450 400 Elastic deformation 350 without notches 300 250 120 100 80 60 40 200 with notches 150 20 100 0 8.6 krpm 50 0 140 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Yoke Coil side End winding Teeth Rotor Fig. 13. Steady-state temperature inside of the motor parts under the rated load condition. 16 Rotational speed, n [krpm] Fig. 12. Mechanical stress inside of the rotor versus rotational speed. V. WEIGHT CALCULATION IV. THERMAL ANALYSIS The last but not least step in the design process was the investigation of the temperature behavior inside the designed motor. The temperature prediction is made with a lumped element model. Lumped element models are widely used for temperature estimation during the design process. These models have shown very accurate results and are very timesaving in comparison with FEA methods [14-17]. As a prerequisite for this investigation, the loss calculation is done as described above. It is assumed that there are five main loss sources and therefore five heat sources inside the machine. These are the stator yoke, the stator teeth, coils, which divided into coil sides and endwinding, rotor with PMs. The parameters of the model are described as thermal resistor, thermal capacitances, heat sources and compensation elements to achieve more accurate results [14]. A conventional cooling jacket is assumed as heat sink. Following assumptions are made: • Internal heat is evenly distributed in the bodies • Axial heat flow appears only in the shaft • Ambient temperature is set to 75°C • Inlet temperature is set to 75°C Fig. 13 shows the result of the steady-state temperature estimation for the different regions in the machine under the rated load conditions. The maximum temperature of 190°C occurs in the end-winding. The high conductor insulation class is required. The maximum operating temperature of the PMs is not exceeded. The estimation of the temperature ruse in the machine under the peak load conditions is also done. The simulation has shown that the designed machine could operate up to 30 seconds under the peak load conditions at 6000 rpm. The proposed motor makes possible the significant weight and size reduction in comparison with the conventional machines due to the stator flux barriers and short end-windings which make this electrical machine a great candidate for the application as traction drive. Table III shows the results of the machine active weight calculation. The total active machine weight of the motor is almost 21.1 kg. Concerning the peak power of 157.3 kW which is produced under peak load conditions at a rotational speed of 9500 rpm, the peak power-to-weight ratio is 7.46 kW/kg which is very high. The peak-powerratio at the rated speed is 4.7 kW/kg. TABLE III MACHINE WEIGHT Stator weight (stack of sheets), mS [kg] Copper weight, mcu [kg] Rotor weight (stack of sheets), mR [kg] Magnet weight , mM [kg] Total weight, mΣ [kg] Peak power-weight-ratio, [kW/kg] Rated power-weight-ratio, [kW/kg] 9.86 2.63 6.65 1.92 21.07 7.46 4.7 VI. CONCLUSION The amount of electric vehicles is becoming higher. In order to fulfill all requirements to the electric drivetrain, new technologies have to be investigated and implemented. This work shows a possible light-weight, high-efficient, compact and cost-effective solution. Firstly the comparison between the IPMSM with conventional and proposed stator was presented. The saturation effect inside of the stator was discussed. The proposed design has shown better results concerning core saturation and produced torque. Then the loss estimation was made and an efficiency map was computed. 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Gerling, “An accurate electromagnetic and thermal analysis of electric machines for hybrid electric vehicle application”, The 22nd International Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Symposium & Exposition, pp. 1198-1207, Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 23-28, 2006. BIOGRAPHIES Volodymyr Bilyi; M.Sc. Volodymyr Bilyi was born in 1990. He received his Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany in 2013. Since 2013 he works as Research Assistant at the Institute of Electric Drives and Actuators at the Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Neubiberg, Germany. Dieter Gerling; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Gerling was born in 1961 in Menden/Sauerland, Germany. He received his diploma and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany in 1986 and 1992, respectively. From 1986 to 1999 he was with Philips Research Laboratories, Aachen, Germany as Research Scientist and later as Senior Scientist. In 1999 he joined Robert Bosch GmbH, Buehl, Germany, as Director. Since 2001 he has been Full Professor at the Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Neubiberg, Germany. 1183 Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)