Abstract
This paper presents a technique which improves energy efficiency of AC rotating machines by using Grain Oriented (GO) steel at stator core instead of Non Oriented (NO) steel. The losses of GO steel are lower than the NO ones, but only when the magnetic flux circulates along the rolling direction; consequently it is rarely used in AC machines where the magnetic flux rotates. By stacking many shifted GO laminations of AC machine stator, the flux pass from one lamination to another, and the core losses are reduced. A lot of experimentations have been done with unidirectional field, rotating field and with real induction machines. They show important improvements with GO shifted steel. The efficiency difference between a classical 10 kW induction machine and a modified machine with GO stator is more than 2 points. Moreover, the no-load current, and so the reactive power are smaller. This technique creates environmental and financial gains.
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