• DocumentCode
    3470889
  • Title

    Design of low speed switched reluctance machines for wind energy converters

  • Author

    Mueller, M.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng., Durham Univ., UK
  • fYear
    1999
  • fDate
    1999
  • Firstpage
    60
  • Lastpage
    64
  • Abstract
    A design study of three-phase switched reluctance (SR) generators has been performed to investigate the influence of numbers of stator and rotor poles on the machine performance at low speed for use in a direct drive wind energy converter. The wind turbine is rated at 20 kW at 100 RPM. The design study has focused on the influence of the number of poles per phase and magnetic gear ratio. Results of efficiency, torque per unit mass and SR converter requirement have been presented for all designs
  • Keywords
    reluctance generators; 20 kW; design requirements; efficiency; low-speed machine performance; magnetic gear ratio; poles per phase; rotor poles; stator poles; three-phase switched reluctance generators; torque per unit mass; wind energy converters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Electrical Machines and Drives, 1999. Ninth International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 468)
  • Conference_Location
    Canterbury
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-85296-720-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1049/cp:19990991
  • Filename
    816357