Interior PM generator for portable AC generator sets

Author

Soong, Wen ; Kahourzade, Solmaz ; Chong-Zhi Liaw ; Lillington, Paul

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

fYear

2014

fDate

14-18 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

2425

Lastpage

2433

Abstract

For portable AC electric generator sets, it is desired to maintain a constant output voltage under load. With wound-field synchronous generators this is done using field current (excitation) control. This type of control is not possible with PM machines however theoretical analysis is used to show that acceptable output voltage regulation can be obtained by using an optimized interior PM machine. The analysis of an example 4 pole, 16 kW spoke-type machine is described and experimental results are provided demonstrating its low THD, high voltage regulation and high efficiency.

Keywords

electric current control; machine vector control; machine windings; permanent magnet generators; synchronous generators; voltage control; constant output voltage; field current control; interior PM generator; interior PM machine; output voltage regulation; portable AC electric generator sets; power 16 kW; spoke-type machine; wound-field synchronous generators; Generators; Inductance; Loss measurement; Resistance; Stator windings; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Pittsburgh, PA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECCE.2014.6953563

Filename

6953563