Affiliations: [a] School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China | [b] School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tiangong University, Tianjin, China | [c] College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
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Corresponding author: Liyan Guo, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tiangong University, No. 399, Binshui West Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin 300387, China. Tel.: +86 22 27402325; Fax: +86 22 27402325; E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: The split ratio is one of the most important design parameters of the machines and has a significant effect on the electromagnetic performance. Using the split ratio, this paper presents a performance analysis method for permanent magnet (PM)-assisted reluctance machine is presented. An accurate analytical model, which considers the saturation of outer iron ribs and the asymmetric saturation of rotor islands, is firstly proposed. In order to reduce the numbers of the adjustable structural parameters during the initial design process and ensure the independence among the parameters, a geometric structure corresponding to the split ratio is then established. The effectiveness of the proposed analytical model based on the split ratio is verified by FEM, and applied to analyze the electromagnetic performance for the three-flux-barrier PM-assisted reluctance machines. On the basis of the analysis results, the design scheme corresponding to the optimal split ratio, which makes the machine obtain a higher efficiency and guarantees the PMs without irreversible demagnetization, is determined rapidly.
Keywords: Permanent magnet (PM)-assisted reluctance machine, the gradient flux barrier, split ratio, analytical model
