Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION
Volume 8, Issue 4, Pages 4313-4324Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TTE.2022.3173126
Keywords
Conductors; Windings; Coils; Rotors; Three-dimensional printing; Shape; Proximity effects; 3-D printed windings; additive manufacturing (AM); electrical machines; proximity effects; shape profiled coils
Funding
- Flemish Research Foundation [FWO
- Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing for Electrical Machines with Increased Performance (AM4EM)] [S001721N]
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Additive manufacturing (AM) is a viable solution for scalable electric drives, offering flexibility in design and reduced weight and loss in high-frequency operation. This article focuses on utilizing AM in the design of electrical machine windings, comparing their performance with traditionally manufactured coils and introducing a new design concept for reduced proximity effect and cross-slot leakage flux impact, enabling higher power density electrical machines.
Nowadays, additive manufacturing (AM) is becoming a more feasible solution for scalable electric drives compared to traditional production systems. Also, with the significantly growing automotive sector, innovation in electric machine technology is evolving rapidly. With the unmatched freedom in geometry, AM offers a great deal of flexibility in the design of electrical machine parts. Not only the passive parts can be printed such as the frame and the shaft of the electrical machine, but also active parts, such as windings, can be printed in lightweight materials such as Al-Si-Mg-based alloy. The main focus of this article is to further utilize AM in the design of electrical machine windings, with low weight and low losses especially at high-frequency (HF) operation. Aiming at HF loss reduction, different AM coils are prototyped using different materials, and their performance is compared with traditionally manufactured coils. Moreover, a new design concept of shaped-profile conductors is presented with reduced proximity effect and less impact by the cross-slot leakage flux. This design combines high electromagnetic performance and ultralightweight merits, allowing for higher power density electrical machines.
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