The effect of the magnet placement for an internal permanent magnet wave energy converter generator
Paper in proceeding, 2016

In this paper the effect of the magnet placement on the torque generaton of an internal permanent magnet (IPM) machine used as a WEC generator is investigated. Firstly, a v-shaped IPM machine is used as an initial WEC generator and the generator operation is established for a selected wave climate, through simulations. In order to evaluate the effect of the magnet placement and configuration, four sweep cases which have several stages are analysed. The generator behavior is obtained using finite element analysis (FEA) calculations. The v-shaped magnet sweeps indicate that placing the permanent magnets closer to the airgap result in torque improvement, therefore the inset magnet configuration is also evaluated. The inset design provide a torque improvement of up till 15% compared with the initial WEC generator. When the inset generator used as the WEC generator, the current value to reach the maximum operation point decreases approximately 14%, which in turn improves the total WEC electrical system losses by 23% for the maximum operating point.

Author

Pinar Tokat

Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Electric Power Engineering

Torbjörn Thiringer

Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Electric Power Engineering

2016 XXII International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM). Lausanne; Switzerland; 4-7 September 2016

2086-2092
978-1-5090-2538-1 (ISBN)

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Energy

Subject Categories

Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering

DOI

10.1109/ICELMACH.2016.7732810

ISBN

978-1-5090-2538-1

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Created

10/8/2017