Steady-State Thermal Modeling of Salient Pole Synchronous Generator

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2022-12

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15

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Energies, Volume 15, issue 24

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This paper presents a practical thermal model of a synchronous generator for high-power applications. This model couples the lumped parameter thermal network and coolant network together to utilize the impact of the coolant’s temperature rising over the machine. Furthermore, the advanced multi-planes technique provides a more precise and higher resolution temperature distribution of various machine sections. Therefore, the machines are divided into five planes; three belong to the active part, and two are added to model the machine’s drive and non-drive end-regions. Furthermore, the paper pays special attention to describing the challenges and providing solutions to them during the heat transfer modeling and analysis. Finally, the analytical model is verified using experimental results on a synchronous generator with a salient pole rotor and an open self-ventilation (OSV) cooling system by comparing the analytical and experimental results. As a result, good correspondence between the estimated and measurement results is achieved.

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Funding Information: This work has been supported by the European Regional Development Fund within the Activity 1.1.1.2 “Postdoctoral Research Aid” of the Specific Aid Objective 1.1.1 “To increase the research and innovative capacity of scientific institutions of Latvia and the ability to attract external financing, investing in human resources and infrastructure” of the Operational Programme “Growth and Employment” (No.1.1.1.2/VIAA/3/19/501). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors.

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AC machines, coolant network, cooling, electrical machines, lumped parameter network, temperature measurement, thermal analysis

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Shams Ghahfarokhi, P, Podgornovs, A, Kallaste, A, Marques Cardoso, A J, Belahcen, A, Vaimann, T, Kudrjavtsev, O, Asad, B & Iqbal, M N 2022, ' Steady-State Thermal Modeling of Salient Pole Synchronous Generator ', Energies, vol. 15, no. 24, 9460 . https://doi.org/10.3390/en15249460