The hysteresis motor is so named because it is producing mechanical torque utilizing the phenomenon of hysteresis. The rotor of a hysteresis motor is a cylindrical tube of high hysteresis loss permanent magnet material without windings or slots. This paper presents the design of a hysteresis permanent magnet motor using the finite element method. The rotor of the machine consists of 36% Cobalt ...

This paper presents the detailed mathematical and Simulink® model of a two-phase stepper BLDC motor in the machine variables, proving the rotor's position role in supplying the motor. Then an extended Kalman filter (EKF) is designed to estimate the motor state variables: stator currents, and the rotor position and velocity, on the basis of noisy measurements of stator currents, since it has a n...

This paper presents a numerical analysis of the performance of a five-bladed Darrieus vertical-axis water turbine, based on the NACA 0025 blade profile, for both bare and shrouded configurations. A complete campaign of 2-D simulations, performed for several values of tip speed ratio and based on RANS unsteady calculations, has been performed to obtain the rotor torque and power curves. Also the...

Stress Concentration Factors are significant in machine design as it gives rise to localized stress when any change in the design of surface or abrupt change in the cross section occurs. Almost all machine components and structural members contain some form of geometrical or microstructural discontinuities. These discontinuities are very dangerous and lead to failure. So, it is very much essent...

The numerous qualities of squirrel cage induction machines enhance their use in industry. However, various faults can occur, such as stator short-circuits and rotor failures. In this paper, we use a technique based on the spectral analysis of stator current in order to detect the fault in the machine: broken rotor bars. Thus, the number effect of the breaks has been highlighted. The effect is h...

This paper is an attempt to provide a user friendly software package for teaching of standalone SEIG. Three operating conditions of the generator are mathematically modelled and then simulated using MATLAB commands. Active GUI window with these models are created using Graphical User Interface Capability. The requirements of capacitor bank for SEIG for its self excitation are also incorporated ...

In the present study, position estimation of switched reluctance motor (SRM) has been achieved on the basis of the artificial neural networks (ANNs). The ANNs can estimate the rotor position without using an extra rotor position sensor by measuring the phase flux linkages and phase currents. Flux linkage-phase current-rotor position data set and supervised backpropagation learning algorithm are...

In this paper, application of Sliding Mode Control (SMC) technique for an Active Magnetic Bearing (AMB) system with varying rotor speed is considered. The gyroscopic effect and mass imbalance inherited in the system is proportional to rotor speed in which this nonlinearity effect causes high system instability as the rotor speed increases. Transformation of the AMB dynamic model into regular sy...

A numbers of important developments have led to an increasing attractiveness for very high speed electrical machines (either motor or generator). Specifically the increasing switching speed of power electronics, high energy magnets, high strength retaining materials, better high speed bearings and improvements in design analysis are the primary drivers in a move to higher speed. The design chal...