This chapter shows the ways of optimising a medium power wind power electromechanical system, generating anything up to several tens of kilowatt electric power. The optimisation criteria are based on the cost of the electromechanical generator associated with a power electronic converter; on the power efficiency; and also on a fundamental parameter, often neglected in smaller installations, whi...

This article presents a performance comparison of an interior mounted permanent magnet synchronous generator (IPMSG) with a synchronous reluctance generator (SynRG) with the same size for a wind application. It is found that using the same geometrical dimensions, a SynRG can convert 74 % of the power that an IPMSG can convert, while it has 80% of the IPMSG weight. Moreover it is found that the ...

We present a new accurate node’s renumbering method for minimizing the profile of stiffness matrix arising in finite elements problems. This method is suitable for cylindrical structures like electrical rotating machines and is especially intended for movement consideration by the moving band method. The structure is divided into sectors classified in a special way. The nodes contained in each ...

Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) variable-speed drive is widely used in the industry because of its particularly high mechanical power density, simplicity and cost effectiveness. Eliminating the mechanical sensor mounted on the shaft of the motors gives further improvement. These drives are referred to as “sensorless” electrical drives. In this paper a novel sensorless algorithm is pro...

Interior permanent magnet synchronous machines are unavoidably subject to production tolerances. Quantities like permanent magnet flux or air gap thickness of a machine may deviate with regard to their nominal parameter values. Driven with a conventional torque control strategy this leads to inaccuracy of the output torque. Especially for traction drives in road vehicles, significant torque err...

During a long time, permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) were only reserved for some specific applications, however, recently, these machines are becoming more used due to the powerful magnetic characteristic of the rare earth, being used in different areas. Several researchers have proposed implementations combining the use of permanent magnet synchronous motor with the direct torque cont...

In a permanent magnet synchronous motor where inductances vary as a function of rotor angle, the 2 phase (d-q) equivalent circuit model is commonly used for simplicity and intuition. In this article, a two phase model for a PM synchronous motor is derived and the properties of the circuits and variables are discussed in relation to the physical 3 phase entities. Moreover, the paper suggests met...

This article proposes a modular approachto the power sharing control of permanent magnet synchronous bearingless machine. The selected machine topology features winding layout with phases distributed into nonoverlapping three phase groups, solution whose twofold aim is to increase fault tolerance and allow for radial force generation. subwindings are supplied by standard three-phase inverter, l...