WO2000001053A1 - Cooling system for an electrical machine - Google Patents
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- WO2000001053A1 WO2000001053A1 PCT/SE1999/001079 SE9901079W WO0001053A1 WO 2000001053 A1 WO2000001053 A1 WO 2000001053A1 SE 9901079 W SE9901079 W SE 9901079W WO 0001053 A1 WO0001053 A1 WO 0001053A1
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
- H02K3/00—Details of windings
- H02K3/04—Windings characterised by the conductor shape, form or construction, e.g. with bar conductors
- H02K3/24—Windings characterised by the conductor shape, form or construction, e.g. with bar conductors with channels or ducts for cooling medium between the conductors
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
- H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
- H02K9/00—Arrangements for cooling or ventilating
- H02K9/22—Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
- H02K9/227—Heat sinks
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- This invention relates to a cooling system for an electrical machine comprising a winding-carrying stator of the kind disclosed in the preamble of claim 1.
- the maximum power drain in all kinds of electrical machines is limited by the upper temperature limit for which the copper conductors are manufactured.
- the temperature rise in the copper conductors depends on the thermal conductivity to the surrounding material - usually to the iron core, on which the copper conductors are positioned.
- the thermal energy is normally transported from the copper conductors to the iron core and further to the engine house which keeps the core in place.
- the amount of heat energy which can be removed depends upon the kind of cooling to be used (for example convection, thermal conduction, thermal radiation) and how an air/liquid flow is directed around and/or through the engine.
- Liquid/oil cooling is commonly used in machines or engines having a requirement for large thermal discharges.
- the US patent No 5,489,810 discloses a switched reluctance machine having cooling channels inside the current conductors in the windings wound on a plurality of the salient stator poles. This a very efficient way of cooling away the thermal energy from the conductors, however it is also very expensive.
- the windings of two adjacent poles are separated by a triangular base separator.
- the US patent No 5,578,879 shows in an embodiment (FIG 2) that cooling fluid flows through channels positioned adjacent to two salient stator windings in an electric machine and thus cools both the stator windings and the stator pole parts.
- a cover is placed between the stator and the rotor to hold the fluid in the channels.
- the cooling channels are here positioned on the side of the windings facing the rotor. This means that the position of the cooling channel has an influence on the dimensioning of the electrical windings and the stator poles which is disadvantageous.
- An object of the invention is to lower the temperature in the electrical copper conductors in an engine having a winding-carrying stator, for example a switched varying reluctance machine, by transporting away, in an effective way, the vaste heat produced in the stator windings when they conduct an electric current which heats them up.
- a winding-carrying stator for example a switched varying reluctance machine
- Another object of the invention is to transport the thermal energy away from the stator windings in an electric machine in, for example, a varying reluctance machine or a DC machine having a permanent magnetic field in an effective but still economical way.
- FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a stator and a rotor of a variable reluctance machine in a sectional view
- FIG. 2 shows a side view of a motor and a first embodiment of the cooling system outside the motor
- FIG. 3 shows a side view of a motor and a second embodiment of the cooling system outside the motor.
- FIG. 1 The description of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 is based on the kind of switched reluctance motor described in the article "Inverter drive for switched reluctance motor: circuits and component ratings" by R.M Davis et al, IEE PROC, vol. 128, Pt. B, No. ", March 1981, pages 126 to 136, and illustrated schematically on page 126 in this article.
- the invention could also be adapted to permanent magnet machines or hybrid machines having stators with adjacent pole windings, and to other machines in which relatively large windings are used and where a lot of copper conductors are collected in a proximate relation (thus not spread out).
- FIG. 1 shows a stator 1 and a rotor 2, both made of a soft magnetic iron material.
- the stator 1 has pole teeth la, lb, 2a, 2b etc. on its inside protruding towards the rotor 2.
- the rotor 2 has teeth Rla, Rib, R2a, R2b, etc. protruding outwardly towards the stator.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a four phase motor having poles la, lb, and 2a, 2b etc. of the same kind positioned diametrically in relation to each other and having its windings switched on one after the other, thereby drawing the nearest teeth of the rotor 2 to be in front of the switched on diametrically positioned pole parts in question and in this way setting the rotor in rotation.
- a cast compound 4 having very good thermal conducting performances for example a cast compound of epoxy resin mixed with mineral powder, for example silicon or an oxide of aluminum.
- An example of a suitable compound is "Avaldit CW 1302", manufactured by CIBA-GEIGY. Those materials have a good thermal conduction but have also a good electrical isolation performance.
- a base separator 5 is provided between each two neighbouring windings, for example between the windings W2b and W3b.
- this base separator is here a cooling tube 5 and is made of a thermal conducting material, and is provided with at least one inside channel 6 in which a cooling fluid flows.
- the cooling tube could for example be provided by a cross-linked or compressed polyethylene, known as PEX.
- the casting of the cast compound around the windings could be performed with the windings in place by using a casting mould having the sides turned to the windings shaped as the fitting sides of the cooling tube 5.
- the casting mould is taken away and the remaining cavity is used as a cooling channel having direct access to the thermal conducting material around the conductors in the windings.
- channels for the cooling fluid are drilled or made in some other suitable way between the windings. In such a case it is important that the cooling fluid does not have a corrosive action on the cast compound 4, i.e. the cast compound and the cooling fluid are chosen such that they are practically chemically inert in relation to each other.
- the cooling fluid 6 could be transmitted in parallel through the channels 5 as illustrated in FIG. 2, in which a closed cooling system is shown having an external combined cooler and pump 10 connected to a cooling medium distributor 11, at one end of the motor 12, which distributes the cooling medium to the channels 5 (not shown in FIG 2).
- the cooling element 10 could be made in many different ways well known to the per- son skilled in the art, and is therefore not described in detail.
- the important feature with respect to the present invention is just that the cooling medium is cooled and is forced to flow through the cooling tubes 5.
- a cooling medium joining unit 13 connected to the tubes 5 at the other end side of the motor 12 collects the fluid corning from them.
- the shapes of the units 11 and 13 have to be adapted to let the rotating axis 14 of the motor pass through them and could, for example, be annular or the like.
- the cooling fluid 6 could instead be transmitted in series through the channels 5 as illustrated in FIG. 3, in which a closed cooling system is shown having an external combined cooler and pump 15 connected to one of the cooling tubes 5 (not shown) at one end of the motor 12.
- the element 15 is connected to another of the tubes 5 at the other end of the motor 12.
- the tubes 5 are connected in series by means of tube pieces of tube 16 or the like.
- the flow rate should be so high that the temperature difference between the input and the output flow is lower than a predetermined value, for example lower than 0.5 °C. This means that the flow rate for the series connection shown in FIG. 3 should be higher than in the parallel connection shown in FIG. 2, i.e. the fall of pressure from the inlet to the outlet is higher for the series connection than for the parallel connection.
- temperature sensors 17 and 18, respectively could be provided to sense the temperatures in the inlet and in the outlet.
- the outputs of the sensors 17 and 18 are each connected to a different input of a differential voltage unit 19, which adjusts the pumping rate of the pump to a higher level, when the differential temperature between the inlet and the outlet is too high. In this way the pumping rate does not have to be at a very high level all the time. A higher rate means more noise and it is advantageous if this could be avoided except when needed.
- the cooling fluid could be water or oil, for example silicon oil.
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AU49411/99A AU4941199A (en) | 1998-06-30 | 1999-06-16 | Cooling system for an electrical machine |
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BE1015432A3 (en) * | 2002-05-31 | 2005-03-01 | Protronic Nv | Electric motor, especially switched reluctance motor, has cooling system attached to electrical coils in stator core |
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