Six-Phase Synchronous Machine with ac and dc Stator Connections, Part I: Equivalent Circuit Representation and Steady-State Analysis

Abstract

This paper describes a detailed circuit representation of a six phase synchronous machine wherein mutual leakage couplings between the two sets of three phase stator windings are included. The main modes of power transfer of a six phase machine with sinusoidal inputs are examined. A harmonic phasor method of steady-state analysis to obtain the current, voltage and torque waveforms of a six phase machine with mixed AC-DC stator connections is described. It is shown that the output waveforms for various operating conditions from a digital computer program using the harmonic phasor method agree remarkably well with those obtained from an established detailed analog simulation.