Chinese Journal of Electrical Engineering ›› 2017, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (1): 10-15.

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A Novel Stator and Rotor Dual PM Flux Modulated Machine

Yunchong Wang1, W. N. Fu1,*, Shuangxia Niu1, Xingjian Li1   

  1. 1. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China;
    2. Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Xi’an, 710049, China;
  • Published:2019-11-01
  • Contact: E-mail: eewnfu@polyu.edu.hk.
  • About author:Yunchong Wang received his B.Sc and M. Sc degrees, from the school of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China, in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph. D. degree in the department of Electrical Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include electrical motor design and control, electrical vehicles and renewable energy conversion system. W. N. Fu received his BEng in Electrical Engineering, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China in 1982 and MEng in Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Technology, Shanghai, China in 1989. He obtained his PhD in electrical engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1999. He is now a Professor in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before joining the university in October 2007, he was one of the key developers at Ansoft Corporation in Pittsburgh, USA. He has about seven years of working experience at Ansoft, focusing on the development of the commercial software Maxwell. He has published 184 papers in refereed journals. His current research interests mainly focus on numerical methods of electromagnetic field computation, optimal design of electric devices based on numerical models, applied electromagnetics and novel electric machines. Shuangxia Niu received the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees, from the School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph. D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2009. Since 2009, she has been with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering. She has authored or coauthored over 70 conference papers and more than 50 papers in leading journals. Her research interests include the design and control of novel electrical machines and drives, renewable energy conversion system and applied electromagnetics.

Abstract: A novel structure of Veriner permanent magnet (VPM) machine is presented as an effective option for high torque density direct-driven applications. The key is to locate PMs on both sides of rotor and stator, and design the stator PMs as a cylinder shape, the rotation of which can be controlled by an external driven system. With this design, magnetic field in the airgap can be directly regulated by the rotation of stator PMs. The structure and operation principle are introduced and the performance is analyzed with time-stepping finite element method (FEM). Analysis results show that the novel structure has really high torque density and good field weakening performance.

Key words: Directly-driven, finite element method, flux modulation, high torque density, permanent magnets