Effect of open stator slots on the performance of an interior permanent magnet automotive alternator
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2013
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Zivotic-Kukolj, V.
Soong, W.
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IET Electric Power Applications, 2013; 7(4):295-302
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Vlatka Životić-Kukolj, Wen Liang Soong
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This work describes a study of the effect of using open stator slots in an interior permanent magnet automotive alternator to increase its effective air gap and thus reduce its iron losses under field-weakening conditions. Analytical, finiteelement and experimental results are compared for the back-electromotive waveforms, inductance saturation/torque curves, iron loss and field-weakening performance characteristics for the alternator with both semi-closed and with open slots. It is shown for the highly saturated machine considered, that using open stator slots can reduce the field-weakening iron loss without significantly affecting the machine performance.
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© The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2013