High-Speed Permanent Magnet Electrical Machines - Applications, Key Issues and Challenges

In this paper,application examples of high-speed electrical machines are presented,and the machine structures are categorized.Key issues of design and control for the high-speed permanent magnet machines are reviewed,including bearings selection,rotor dynamics analysis and design,rotor stress analysis and protection,thermal analysis and design,electromagnetic losses analysis and reduction,sensorless control strategies,as well as comparison and selection of sine-wave and square-wave drive modes.Some challenges are also discussed,so that future studies could be focused.

Greatly Enhanced Methanol Oxidation Reaction of CoPt Truncated Octahedral Nanoparticles by External Magnetic Fields

Tunable behavior in electrocatalysis by external multifields,such as magnetic field,thermal field,and electric field,is the most promising strategy to expand the theory,design,and synthesis of state-of-the-art catalysts and the cell in the near future.Here,a systematic investigation for the effect of external magnetic field and thermal field on methanol oxidation reactions(MOR)in magnetic nanoparticles is reported.For Co_(42)Pt_(58)truncated octahedral nanoparticles(TONPs),the catalytic performance in MOR is greatly increased to the maximum of 14.1%by applying a magnetic field up to 3000 Oe,and it shows a monotonical increase with increasing working temperature.The magnetic enhanced effect is closely related to the Co content of Co_(x)Pt_(100-x)TONPs.Furthermore,the enhancement effect under a magnetic field is more obvious for Co_(42)Pt_(58)TONPs annealed at 650℃.First-principle calculation points out that the magnetic fields can facilitate the dehydrogenation of both methanol and water by suppression of entropy of the electron spin and lowering of the activation barrier,where OH_(ad)intermediates on Co sites play a more important role.The application of magnetic fields together with thermal fields in MOR provides a new prospect to manipulate the performance of direct methanol fuel cells,which will accelerate their potential applications.

Reduction of Cogging Torque in Permanent Magnet Flux-Switching Machines

Permanent magnet flux-switching machine (PMFSM) is a relatively new structure. Available literatures mainly focused on its general design procedure and performance analysis. In this paper, Finite Element Method (FEM) is taken to ana-lyze various design techniques to reduce the cogging torque in a prototype 12/10-pole PMFSM.

Message from Editors

IN recent years,4th Industrial Revolution and Industry 4.0 have swept the world and deeply influenced the development of global industry market.This movement arises wide attention to electric motor drive system which is playing an increasing important role in energy consumption transformation and environment protection.Amid this tremendous change in industry field,the concept of high-efficient,energy-saving and intelligent motor system has been proposed.On one hand,motor system with advantages such as low vibration,low noise,weak magnetic interference,renewable utilization capacity,high-efficiency and high-reliability could promote the progress of major industries such as mining,renewable energy and cutting-edged equipment manufacturing.On the other hand,the realization of intelligent and automated operations of motor drive system would help boosting the automation of industrial production.

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CURRENTLY,new technologies and applications are presenting both new challenges and new opportunities to the field of electric machines and motors.The continual dedicated effort of researchers is required to achieve the high-performance and high-reliability of electric machines while ensuring their cost-effectiveness.In motor design,with the advancements of optimization theory and technology,increasingly effective methods have been developed for the design of motors.

Design Methods of Transversally Laminated Synchronous Reluctance Machines

Transversally laminated synchronous reluctance machine(SynRM)are usually designed with multiple-layer flux barriers to achieve high electromagnetic performance.This paper summarizes three design methods to optimize the machine.Related implementation procedures are detailed.Besides,advantages and disadvantages of these methods are discussed.Based on these conventional techniques,a comprehensive optimization method is proposed,with which a prototype SynRM is designed.The performances of this prototype are discussed to verify the optimal design method.

Wide Speed Range Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator Design for a DC Power System

A wide speed range permanent magnet synchronous generator(PMSG)system is studied in this paper,including the PMSG design and comparative study on control strategies with a pulse width modulation(PWM)rectifier,the purpose of which is to regulate the DC-link voltage.It is of great importance to study the foregoing DC power system based on the PMSG and PWM rectifier,where vector control(VC)can be implemented and the corresponding field-weakening strategy can be realized by injecting a field-weakening current component without any auxiliary devices.Large machine inductance is desired in order to limit the short-circuit current and the loaded voltage drop.Different control strategies including VC,direct torque control(DTC)and direct voltage control(DVC)are studied and compared with both simulations and experiments.

Giant low-field magnetocaloric effect in ferromagnetically ordered Er_(1-x)Tm_(x)Al_(2)(0≤x≤1)compounds

Magnetocaloric material is the key working substance for magnetic refrigerant technology,for which the low-field and low-temperature magnetocaloric effect(MCE)performance is of great importance for practical applications at low temperatures.Here,a giant low-field magnetocaloric effect in ferromagnetically ordered Er_(1-x)Tm_(x)Al_(2)(0≤x≤1)compounds was reported,and the magnetic structure was characterized based on low-temperature neutron powder diffraction.With increasing Tm content from 0 to 1,the Curie temperature of Er_(1-x)Tm_(x)Al_(2)(0≤x≤1)compounds decreases from 16.0 K to 3.6 K.For Er_(0.7)Tm_(0.3)Al_(2) compound,it showed the largest low-field magnetic entropy change(–SM)with the peak value of 17.2 and 25.7 J/(kg K)for 0–1 T and 0–2 T,respectively.The(–SM)max up to 17.2 J/(kg K)of Er0.7Tm0.3Al2 compound for 0–1 T is the largest among the intermetallic magnetocaloric materials ever reported at temperatures below 20 K.The peak value of adiabatic temperature change(Tad)max was determined as 4.13 K and 6.87 K for 0–1 T and 0–2 T,respectively.The characteristic of second-order magnetic transitions was confirmed on basis of Arrott plots,the quantitative criterion of exponent n,rescaled universal curves,and the mean-field theory criterion.The outstanding low-field MCE performance with low working temperatures indicates that Er_(1-x)Tm_(x)Al_(2)(0≤x≤1)compounds are promising candidates for magnetic cooling materials at liquid hydrogen and liquid helium temperatures.

Magnetoresistance anomaly in Fe_(5)GeTe_(2)homo-junctions induced by its intrinsic transition

Two-dimensional van der Waals(2D vdW)magnets have attracted great attention recently and possess the unprecedented advantages of incorporating high-quality vdW heterostructures and homostructures into spintronic devices,and exploring various physical phenomena or technologies.Among them,Fe_(5)GeTe_(2)(F5GT)has ferromagnetic order close to room temperature,however the magnetic properties near its intrinsic transitions and F5GT-based 2D devices remain mostly unexplored.Here,we systematically demonstrate the peculiar magnetic properties of Fe_(5)GeTe_(2)nanoflakes near its intrinsic transition temperature(Tp)which is far lower than its Curie temperature(TC)of~265 K,and firstly discover anomalous magnetoresistance effect in F5GT homo-junctions by magneto-transport measurements.The strongest anomalous Hall effect occurs around Tp which is located in a temperature range from 130 to 160 K for the F5GT nanoflakes with different thicknesses.Furthermore,negative magnetoresistance(N-MR)and butterfly-shaped magnetoresistance(B-MR)are observed in F5GT homo-junction devices,and they appeared only in an intermediate temperature range from 110 to 160 K,noticeably showing the maxima near the T_(p)rather than the lowest temperature.Our experimental results clearly reveal the significant influence of intrinsic transitions on magnetic properties of F5GT and magnetoresistance effect in F5GT homo-junction devices,which imply a new strategy to achieve highperformance 2D spintronic devices by tuning intrinsic magnetic or structural transitions in 2D vdW magnets.

Er-Y-Cr-Si化合物在极低温区的巨低场磁热效应

高性能低温低场磁热材料在气体液化等领域具有重要的应用前景.本团队通过真空电弧熔炼的方式成功合成了一系列多晶Er_(1-x)Y_(x)Cr_(2)Si_(2)(0≤x≤0.8)样品,这些材料表现出巨大的低场磁热效应.其中Cr含量为0.1的样品显示出最好的低场磁热性能以及接近2 K的合适的工作温区.更重要的是,在0-1 T的磁场变化下,该样品的最大磁熵变峰值以及最大绝热温变峰值分别高达19.2 J kg^(-1)K^(-1)和4.3 K.其磁熵变峰值为目前已报道的20 K以下温区合金类磁热材料的最大值.通过Arrott曲线,平均场理论以及约化磁熵变曲线等手段,证明了磁相变特征为二级相变.物理机理分析表明,10%的Y替代导致高达15.9%的磁熵变峰值增强的原因在于替代样品所具有的大饱和磁化强度以及小饱和磁场.

Experimental Study on Characteristics Variation of Permanent Magnets for High-speed Machine Applications

High-speed permanent magnet(PM)electric machines are widely used.However,their extreme operating conditions,e.g.,high temperature and high mechanical stress,lead to variations of the PM characteristics and affect the machine performance.In the present study,an experimental device is designed to test the PM characteristics by simulating the stress and temperature conditions of high-speed machines.The experimental results indicate that the PM remanence not only varies at high temperatures,which is well known,but also changes under high mechanical stress.It is shown that the PM remanence increases with the mechanical stress but decreases with the temperature rise.Accordingly,a new demagnetization-curve model of the magnets under multiple stresses is refined to better express the PM characteristics.The performance of a high-speed PM machine is then analyzed as an example to indicate the necessity of the model refinement.The effects of the temperature and mechanical stress on the conductivity of the PMs are also examined.The experimental results indicate that the conductivity of the PM increases with the temperature and pressure.