Abstract

The High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) synchronous motors offer considerably higher torque and power densities along with higher efficiencies for strategic and critical industrial applications. The most widely explored airgap based topology for HTS synchronous motors has conventional copper windings in stator and HTS pole coils in the rotor. The shape of these rotor pole coils affects various electrical parameters of the motor. In this paper, a detailed investigation has been carried out on effect of shape of HTS pole coil on airgap magnetic field and rated open circuit characteristic (OCC) of an 8 MW HTS synchronous motor along with its other parameters like pole coil excitation current, peak magnetic field inside the motor, maximum perpendicular magnetic field on HTS tape and operating temperature of HTS pole coils through FEM based electromagnetic analysis. Based on the results of electromagnetic analysis, the optimum shape of HTS pole coil has been finalised.

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