Analytical Design of a Hybrid-Excited Wound Field Synchronous Machine for the Improvement of Torque Characteristics

Abstract

This paper proposed a novel hybrid-excited wound field synchronous machine (HE-WFSM) to efficiently use the field torque and reluctance torque. Meanwhile, an analytical method is utilized to achieve the torque-angle consistency principle, which allows the field torque and the reluctance torque to reach their maximum values at the same phase current angle. First, a novel HE-WFSM with two different rotor excitations is proposed. Second, the PMs and the field windings in the rotor are designed by an analytical method based on the magnetic equivalent circuit (MEC) to produce the same magnetic flux in the air gap to obtain the torque-angle consistency. Third, one practical HE-WFSM applied for a small power fan is designed by the analytical method as an example. Finally, all the performances of the proposed HE-WFSM are predicted by the finite element method (FEM), thereby verifying the improved torque characteristics.