Design and analysis of a switched reluctance generator for rural electrification in stand alone wind energy coversion system

Author

Karthikeyan, R. ; Vijayakumar, K. ; Arumugam, R. ; Kamaraj, V.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Anna Univ.- Chennai, Chennai, India

fYear

2009

fDate

27-29 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper addresses the need for the exploration of utilization of maintenance free electric machines in non-conventional energy conversion systems. In stand alone wind energy conversion system meant for rural areas, cost effective and maintenance free electric machine as generator is envisaged to be an integral part of the system. The suitability of switched reluctance machine as generator for stand alone rural wind energy conversion system has been explored through design and analysis. The design equations, selection of pertinent topology, static and transient magnetic characteristics and study of thermal and vibration characteristics has been presented. Finite element analysis has been extensively used to refine as well as to analyze the finalized design.

Keywords

reluctance generators; thermal analysis; vibrations; wind power plants; free electric machine maintenance; rural electrification; stand alone wind energy coversion system; switched reluctance generator; thermal characteristic; vibration characteristic; Costs; Electric machines; Energy conversion; Integral equations; Magnetic analysis; Reluctance generators; Reluctance machines; Topology; Wind energy; Wind energy generation; coupled field thermal analysis; finite element analysis; modal analysis; switched reluctance generator; wind energy conversion system;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Systems, 2009. ICPS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kharagpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4330-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4331-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPWS.2009.5442717

Filename

5442717