Three-Axis Active Control Magnetic Bearing with

Asymmetric Structure for High-Temperature Machines

Atsushi Nakajima, Katsuhiro Hirata, Noboru Niguchi, and Masayuki Kato
Osaka University, Yamadaoka 2-1, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan
atsushi.nakajima@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp

Introduction Shaft
Problems
Problems
Mechanical bearing(contact) Motor
Need maintenance ・Need motor and three bearings(Total 4 units)
High noise
-increasing size of the system
Abrasion
Friction loss -reduction in the critical speed
・Have a flat disk in thrust rotor
Magnetic bearing(contactless) Thrust magnetic bearing -pore assemblability
Maintenance free -reduction of the speed limit
Oil-less drive Radial magnetic bearing
Active control To solve these problem, triaxial active control magnetic
Five-axis active control magnetic levitation system bearings without flat disk have been proposed.
Low friction loss
However, supporting force of triaxial magnetic bearings are not high enough.
Therefore, we propose a new three-axis active control magnetic bearing with an asymmetric structure that aim to apply to canned motor whose rotor is
attracted only in one axial direction due to a negative pressure of the fluid, and can generate a large suspension force.

Proposed Magnetic Bearing Verification using 3-D FEA [T]

Structure 2.0
Analysis software JMAG Designer 15.1
Radial Non-magnetic
Rotor stator & coil material CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 v2
Thrust (8 poles) Thrust Thrust Number of element 1,064,688
Shaft stator & coil z1 stator & coil z1 stator & coil z3
Number of nodes 181,147
0

Single-axis excitation
200 900
130 mm 800
160

Suspension force [N]

Suspension force [N]

700
49.1 mm 120 x=-0.06 600 zz=-0.20
x=-0.04 500 zz=-0.15
zz=-0.10
x=-0.02 400 zz=-0.05
80
x=0.00 300 zz= 0.00
x=0.02 200 zz= 0.05
40
68.7 mm 24.8 mm 13.9 mm 11.5 mm x=0.04
100
zz= 0.10
x=0.06 zz= 0.15
z Air gap length : 0.55 mm 0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12
0
0 2 4 6 82 10
zz= 0.20
12
Current density [A/mm2] Current density [A/mm ]
・Axially asymmetric. only winding x1 is excited winding z1 & z2 is excited
・Have a radial stator (8 coils), three thrust stators and a rotor. ・Maximum suspension force (Rotor is in initial position)
・The rotor consists of a magnetic material and 2 non-magnetic - radial force 179N
parts. - thrust force 830N
Operating principle ・Radial suspension force affected by X-axis displacement.
・Z-axis displacement has little effect.
y1
・As the current increases, the force hardly increases.
⇒ Magnetic saturation in radial rotor.
z1

fz
Multi-axis excitation
z2 900
200
x2 x1 800
Suspension force [N]
Suspension force [N]

700
150
600
z3 500
100
400 irad =0
y z ith
ith =0
300
irad
50 ith =6
ith irad =6
irad
200
y2 ith =12
ith 100 irad =12
irad
z x y x 0 0
: Magnetic flux 0 4 8 12 0 4 8 12
Radial current density [A/mm2] Thrust current density [A/mm2]
・2 adjacent radial coils are connected in series. Effect of thrust current on radial force Effect of radial current on thrust force
-the radial coils consist of 4 circuits: (x1, x2) and (y1, y2) ・Thrust current decreases radial suspension force.
・The thrust coils z1 and z2 are connected in series. ⇒ Magnetic saturation in radial rotor.
・A negative Z-axis thrust force is generated by the magnetic flux ・Radial current has little effect on thrust suspension force.
due to the thrust coil z3. ⇒ Magnetic saturation is local.

Conclusion
• We proposed a novel magnetic bearing with asymmetric structure for rotary machine that rotor is attracted only in one axial
direction due to a negative pressure of the fluid. The feature of the proposed structure is to have non-magnetic material parts for
control the magnetic path.
• Its basic characteristics ware verified by 3-D FEA. Due to asymmetric structure proposed magnetic bearing can generate high
thrust force to practical use.