Abstract
Recently, fractional-slot windings with two-slot coil pitch are receiving more and more attention due to their lower space harmonic contents in stator magnetomotive force (MMF) compared with the widely-used fractional-slot nonoverlapping counterparts. To further reduce the detrimental space harmonics for this type of winding, various solutions featured by varied coil turn ratios are investigated in this paper. Firstly, all the feasible slot and pole number combinations for fractional-slot windings with two-slot coil pitch are discussed. Secondly, two types of Slot Harmonic Only Windings (SHOW), i.e., SHOW I and SHOW II, are illustrated on the 18-slot/10-pole (18S10P) and 24S10P windings, through which only the main harmonic and its slot harmonics will be present in stator MMF harmonics. Then, to overcome the drawback of reduced main harmonic magnitude owing to both the decreased winding factor and poor slot area utilization associated with the SHOW, two solutions, i.e., 6-0 solution and 5-1 solution for 18S10P and four alternatives, i.e., 7-1 solution, 6-2 solution, 5-3 solution and 4-4 solution for 24S10P, are proposed based on the SHOW I or SHOW II. It is found that the 5-1 solution for 18S10P and 5-3 solution for 24S10P winding are the most desirable ones considering the tradeoff between larger main harmonic magnitude and lower harmonic contents. Furthermore, electromagnetic performance comparisons are carried out between 24S10P permanent magnet (PM) machines with 5-3 solution and 12S10 two layer and 24S10P two layer machines. Although the average torque of the 24S10P machine with 5-3 solution has a slight decrease, its torque ripple and radial magnetic force density rotor eddy-current losses are greatly suppressed compared with the two layer counterparts.
Highlights
The objectives of designing AC windings are always the same, i.e., amplitude of main harmonic is as large as possible, while for the rest harmonics, the smaller the better
To overcome the limited ability of harmonic elimination for the distributing and chording method, double-layer graded distributed windings characteristic by varied coil turn ratios and slot distributions are put forward in [3]–[6], through which all harmonics except the main harmonic and its slot harmonics are present in the stator magnetomotive force (MMF)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate different harmonic elimination solutions for the two-slot coil pitches fractional-slot windings
Summary
The objectives of designing AC windings are always the same, i.e., amplitude of main harmonic (generating torque) is as large as possible, while for the rest harmonics, the smaller the better. It can be observed that the amplitudes of the 5th order harmonic for SHOW I and SHOW II are reduced by 7.51% and 6.26% for 18S10P and by 6.38% and 5.55% for 24S10P compared with that of the two layer ones, which will unavoidably do harm to the machine torque density This owns to the decreased equivalent distribution factors associated with the SHOW, and largely comes down to FIGURE 5. Alternative harmonic elimination solutions for the 18S10P and 24S10P windings with reduced available varied coil turn ratios but equal number of conductors per slot will be proposed and the relationship among the SHOW and alternative solutions shall be established. What should be pointed out is that these alternative solutions are proposed at the cost of less prefect harmonic elimination ability since the available varied coil turn ratios have been reduced
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