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Ahmad S. Al-Adsani
Omid Beik
Multiphase
Hybrid
Electric
Machines
Applications for Electrified Powertrains
Multiphase Hybrid Electric Machines
Ahmad S. Al-Adsani • Omid Beik
This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Preface
vii
viii Contents
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Chapter 1
General Electric Machine Theory
NI
H¼ ð1:1Þ
Lc
B ¼ μH ð1:2Þ
μ
μr ¼ ð1:3Þ
μo
φ
B¼ ð1:4Þ
A
By considering the simple core shape in Fig. 1.1a, the magnetic path in the core
has a uniform shape, which has a reluctance value that depends on the path length,
core permeability, and cross-sectional area as in (1.5). The reluctance in the magnetic
circuit is like the resistance in the electric circuit, where one governs the flow of flux
and the flow of current, respectively, as in Fig. 1.2. In the magnetic circuit, the coil
has NI quantity that is called magnetomotive force (MMF). However, for permanent
magnet (PM) materials, the MMF is calculated as in (1.7), where Hc is the PM core
field intensity and Lc is the PM core length (thickness).
1.1 Magnetic Circuit Principles 3
Fig. 1.2 Electric and its magnetic circuit analogy (a) Electric circuit (b) Magnetic circuit
L
R ¼ ð1:5Þ
μA
MMF ¼ NI ð1:6Þ
MMF ¼ H c Lc ð1:7Þ
When the magnetic circuit is divided into sections of materials that easily allow flux
line path to be formed, this is called ferromagnetic materials (FERMMs). In
FERMMs, there are atoms, and each atom has its own magnetic moment direction,
which is separated by a domain wall in each crystal boundary, as in Fig. 1.3a. These
magnetic moments tend to align in the same direction over domains containing many
atoms when they are subjected to a magnetic field intensity [2]. As H increases
further and further, more domain directions will align until all the domains are in the
same direction and when the material is magnetized to the maximum extent (satu-
ration region), as shown in Fig. 1.3a. Here, if the majority of the domains are in the
same directions after the applied field is removed, the material is said to be perma-
nently magnetized. Another important phenomenon that occurs in FERMMs is
called hysteresis. Hysteresis is described by referring to a typical B–H curve in
Fig. 1.3a. When a current flows through a coil warped around a ferromagnetic core,
MMF will then be created. As the MMF increases, so does H until the core saturates,
which is presented by point o to point a in Fig. 1.3a. Now, if the current decreased to
zero, the MMF and hence field intensity will go to zero. However, flux density will
not go to zero, which is presented by point a to point b in Fig. 1.3a. Here, the core
remains magnetized, even though the applied current and field intensity have gone to
zero. The magnetism that remains in the core is called residual magnetism, and this
effect creates a permanent magnet. If the applied current is reversed and slowly
increases in the negative direction, the flux density will be driven to zero, as
presented by point b to c in Fig. 1.3a. The negative field intensity needed to drive
B to zero is called coercive force, as presented by point c in Fig. 1.3a. As the current
4 1 General Electric Machine Theory
Fig. 1.3 General hysteresis loops for FERMMs (a) B versus H hysteresis loop showing path major
points (b) Soft ferromagnetic materials (c) Hard ferromagnetic materials
is made more negative, the core will eventually saturate and the flux density will
have a polarity opposite to that in the original case, as presented by point d in
Fig. 1.3a. Finally, if the current is reduced to zero and then made positive again, the
curve will join up with the original curve passing through points e and f [2], where
this closed loop joining points a, b, c, d, e, and f is called a hysteresis loop.
Thus, a PM material is typically a metal alloy, which after being subjected to field
intensity retains a substantial residual flux density (Br). In order to reduce the flux
density to zero, an H field direction opposite in sense to the original magnetizing
field must be applied. This impressed field magnitude must have a value (Hc) known
as the coercive force.
Here, materials magnetism can be categorized as permanent or temporary based
on their ability to be magnetized and hold their magnetism or their magnetism
1.2 Electric Machine Fundamentals 5
Fig. 1.4 Different cuts of PM materials available in the market [3] (a) Ferrite (b) Neodymium–
Iron–Boron (NdFeB) (c) Samarium–Cobalt (SmCo) (d) Aluminum–Nickel–Cobalt (AlNiCo)
(Magnetic materials: Goudsmit Magnetics, the Netherlands)
vanishes as the DC supply source of the conductor that carries the current is turned
off [1]. Magnetic materials are relatively easy to magnetize since their relative
permeability values are high. FERMMs are classified as soft, in which the most
common magnetic materials include steels, iron, nickel, aluminum, cobalt, and rare-
earth elements. Fig. 1.3b illustrates the expected hysteresis loop behavior for the soft
FERMMs. Hard FERMMs, which have the expected hysteresis loop as in Fig. 1.3c,
comprise the permanent magnet materials such as alnico, the alloys of cobalt with
rare-earth elements such as samarium, copper–nickel alloys, chromium steels, and
other metal alloys. Fig. 1.4 shows different permanent magnet materials with special
cuts found in the market. In Fig. 1.5, the B–H demagnetization curves for several soft
and hard magnetic materials with different grades are illustrated. The PM material
grade is a number, which is specified after material type, to show different curves for
the same material based on cost, magnetic performance, and operational temperature
resistance.
Electric machines are considered electromechanical power converters, such that they
convert mechanical power into electrical, as in generators, and convert electrical into
mechanical energy, as in motors. For generators, a source of mechanical power is
6 1 General Electric Machine Theory
required to rotate the machine shaft (prime mover), via applied torque (T ), at a fixed
or variable speed (ω) to develop an electromotive force (voltage difference) at the
machine terminals (v) and vice versa for motor action as illustrated in Fig. 1.6.
Hence, the electric field is considered the coupled medium between generation and
motor output quantities. The electric machines differ in their internal magnetic
source type, construction, and operation. In this chapter, the source of the magnetic
field in general electric machines and their stator and rotor geometry are discussed.
Electric machines consist of two major parts: stator and rotor. Stator is the stationary
part that does not move during operation, while the rotor is free to move and it can be
the inner or outer part of the machine. Both stator and rotor parts are made of
FERMMs that are discussed in the previous section. The stator accommodates the
alternating current (AC) conductors in slots that are cut on the inner periphery and in
some machines topologies in the outer periphery of the rotor structure. The coupling
between stator and rotor fields can be increased by selecting a low reluctance
material, which increases the flux density through the machine’s active parts. The
classification of various electrical machine topologies focuses on the machines with
or without commutators together with synchronous and asynchronous AC machines
types, as shown in Fig. 1.7. The utilization of these machine topologies in the
industry is subjected to meet the designer target in terms of efficiency, power
density, and cost while their usage ranges from light- to heavy-duty loads.
1.3 Overview of Classical Electric Machine Topologies 7
Direct current (DC) machines have essential features that made them continually find
application because of the relative simplicity and flexibility of their drive systems
compared with AC machines. In brushed DC machine topology, as in Fig. 1.8,
having a higher number of stator salient poles causes core saturation; hence, two,
four, and six poles are common. Their field winding is placed on the salient stator,
and the armature winding is placed on the round rotor. Through the field winding, a
DC current is applied to produce the flux, which presents the major component in the
general induced voltage formula. Such that, the induced voltage (e) in a conductor of
length (l) moving with linear velocity (v) in a non-time-varying magnetic flux
density is given in (1.8) [1, 4]. A unidirectional terminal voltage can be applied
through a brush and mechanical commutator assembly. For a single coil in DC
machines, a commutator action is to provide a full-wave rectification, and by
8 1 General Electric Machine Theory
Fig. 1.8 Radial view for two and four salient pole brushed DC machines topology. (a) Two salient
pole (b) Four salient pole
assuming sinusoidal flux distribution, the voltage waveform between brushes can be
transformed to a DC or average voltage (Ea) value between brushes as in (1.9) [4],
where ω represents the machine rotational speed.
e ¼ Blv ð1:8Þ
Z π
1 2
Ea ¼ ωNφ sin ωtd ðωt Þ ¼ ωNφ ð1:9Þ
π 0 π
DC machine working principle lays on the current flow through a coil within a
magnetic field, and then a magnetic force is produced to generate a torque that rotates
the rotor through four field excitation design topologies to display a wide variety of
volt-ampere or speed-torque characteristics for both dynamic and steady-state oper-
ation [4]. In DC generators, the field excitation topologies are called (i) separately
excited, (ii) shunt, (iii) series, (iv) cumulative compound (adds shunt and series
effect), and (v) differential compounded (subtract shunt and series effect) generator
[4]. Generally, these DC generator schemes are compared by their terminal voltage
regulation. Unlike DC motors, which are compared based on their speed regulation
capability. DC motors are driven from DC power supply. Unless otherwise specified,
the input voltage to a DC motor is assumed to be constant because that assumption
simplifies the analysis of motor comparison. Also, DC motors have five field
excitation topologies: (i) separately excited, (ii) shunt, (iii) series, (iv) compound,
and (v) permanent magnet [1].
However, brushed AC machines, as in Fig. 1.9, differ from DC machines in their
armature winding location. Their armature windings are almost always located on
the stator, while their field windings are located on the rotor. Generally, there are two
magnetic fields presented: magnetic field from rotor circuit DC current excitation
and another magnetic field from stator circuit. The interaction of these two magnetic
fields produces a torque in the machine, just like two PMs near each other that will
experience a torque that causes them to line up. The rotating magnetic field from the
1.3 Overview of Classical Electric Machine Topologies 9
Fig. 1.9 Radial view for two and four salient pole brushed three-phase AC machine topology. (a)
Two pole (b) Four pole
P
θ e ¼ θm ð1:11Þ
2
P
fe ¼ f ð1:12Þ
2 m
10 1 General Electric Machine Theory
nm P
fe ¼ ð1:13Þ
120
There are two rotor types, salient and nonsalient (round), in wound field
(WF) synchronous generators. The rotors are subjected to changing magnetic fields,
and it is constructed of thin laminations to reduce eddy current losses. Rotor DC field
winding can be supplied by DC source through slip rings and brushes as in Fig. 1.9,
or it can be through a special DC source mounted directly on the shaft of the
synchronous generator. Slip rings and brushes are applied for small synchronous
machines because no other methods are cost-effective [5]. On the other hand, large
generators and motors and brushless exciters are used to supply the DC field current
to the machine. A brushless exciter is a small AC generator with its field circuit
mounted on the stator and its armature circuit on the rotor [4]. By controlling the
small DC field current of the exciter generator, the rotor DC field winding of the
main WF synchronous generator is regulated.
Fig. 1.10 Radial view for brushless three-phase squirrel-cage IM machine topology
1.3 Overview of Classical Electric Machine Topologies 11
Fig. 1.11 Radial view for round and salient four-pole brushless three-phase PM machine topology.
(a) Salient PM rotor (b) Nonsalient PM rotor
the squirrel-cage rotor winding does not require slip rings and brushes; however, it
consists of conducting bars embedded in slots in the rotor iron core and short-
circuited at each end by conducting end rings. The squirrel-cage motor is substan-
tially a constant speed motor having a few percent drops in speed (slip) from no load
to full load. Different classes of squirrel-cage machines are presented in the literature
based on the effective resistance of the rotor-cage circuit [4]. Such that, the effect of
using these rotor-cage classes dictates machine torque-speed characteristics. Hence,
the extreme simplicity and raggedness of the squirrel-cage construction are excep-
tional advantages of this type of IM.
As for the brushless machine types, permanent magnet AC machines or brushless
PM machines are occasionally built to operate as synchronous machines with
rotating field winding replaced by a PM. Fig. 1.11 illustrates the brushless three-
phase PM synchronous machine having either salient or nonsalient PM rotor type.
The flux paths due to a four-pole PM AC machine that links stator phase coils with
rotor magnetic field are shown in Fig. 1.11a. Knowing that, if a constant torque is
exerted on the shaft to run the machine at a constant speed, this provides generator
action. On the other hand, if the three-phase winding is excited using a semicon-
ductor control switching pattern, then the machine is operating as a motor.
Fig. 1.12 Radial view for brushless SRM topology showing two stator poles to rotor poles ratio.
(a) 4/2 SRM (b) 6/4 SRM
to align rotor with the stator-produced flux linkage [4], as shown in Fig. 1.12. For the
control, the rotor position sensing is required in order to properly energize the stator
phase windings to produce torque. The SRM needs to be designed such that the
stator winding inductance varies with rotor position, while the stator core of SRM
requires high permeability magnetic material. The torque characteristics of SRM are
governed by the saliency of stator and rotor, which enhances the difference between
maximum and minimum inductances [4].
In SRMs, the torque is proportional to the magnitude of the phase current and
does not depend on its direction. Hence, unidirectional current can be used to supply
the stator winding through solid-state switches. Therefore, for motor drive, only half
of the solid-state switches are required to energize the stator phase through a single
current direction, which reduces the control electronics by half compared with the
other machine drive system [4], such as in brushless PM machines. The zero torque
position in the SRM cannot be presented if the ratio between the stator poles (SP) to
rotor poles is not an integer. For instance, SP/P for 6/4 SRM is 1.5, and hence there
will not be a simultaneous alignment of stator phase inductance.
However, in some instances, a SRM with an integer pole ratio is desirable; in this
case, the elimination of zero torque is attained by constructing the machine with an
asymmetric rotor [4]. Therefore, the rotor pole width is made wider than that of the
stator. In general, when a given phase is excited, the torque is such that the rotor is
pulled to the nearest position of maximum flux linkage. As excitation is removed
from this phase and the next phase is excited, the rotor is then pulled to a new
maximum flux-linkage position [4].
1.4 WF and PM Synchronous Machine Excitation Fields 13
As discussed in the previous sections, the wound field (WF) and PM rotor types of
AC synchronous machines provide rotating magnetic fields that produce the three-
phase set of voltages in the stator coils as given in (1.10). The excitation field in the
WF rotor type is supplied by the DC voltage source through slip rings and brushes,
as in Fig. 1.9. While the PM rotor type does not need that, it instead requires spatial
arranging of soft or hard PM material, which can be accommodated on the rotor core
in common ways known as surface-mounted magnets, inset magnets, buried mag-
nets with radial magnetization, and buried magnets with circumferential magnetiza-
tion [5]. Note that, in this book, surface-mounted magnet rotor type is chosen for the
synchronous PM machine topology, as in Fig. 1.11.
Given the same concentrated winding assumptions for the PM machine topology as
in WF machines, different cross-section path reluctances are calculated using (1.5).
There are eight different reluctances and one rotor PM MMF, which is calculated as
in (1.7), in the considered machine section. For the stator and air-gap of the PM
machine section, the flux-linkage path reluctances are similar to those found in the
WF machine case, while the PM rotor reluctances are represented by rotor PM (R m),
left rotor yoke (R ry1 ), and right rotor yoke (R ry2 ), as illustrated in Fig. 1.14. Again,
KVL can be used to calculate the magnetic flux linkage that will be shown in detail in
Chap. 3.
Chapter 2
Hybrid Electric Machine Concept
2.1 History
As the demand for less expensive and more efficient electrified powertrain grows,
the need for optimized electric machines becomes more apparent. An interesting
electric machine topology that leads to simplified powertrains is hybrid excitation
electric machines. In hybrid excitation machines, there exist two magnetic fields.
This provides a flexible field control capability with an acceptable power density and
without the need for an expensive power converter control system.
Different methods of hybrid excitation field regulation topologies, including a
PM combined with a WF excitation, have been considered in the literature [6–15,
16–39]. By combining PM and WF excitation, here referred to as hybrid PM (HPM)
machine, the advantages of both PM and WF synchronous machines are utilized.
The HPMs can be classified based on their magnetic excitation field paths (series or
parallel) and based on their place in the machine stationary, rotary or both parts, as in
Fig. 2.1.
For HPM machine topologies, there are at least two excitation field sources that
provide the net machine excitation. In general, a PM source provides the main
excitation, and a wound field component acts to regulate the machine flux distribu-
tion either by boosting or by weakening the PM field depending on the direction of
the wound field DC excitation current. The DC field winding may be placed on the
rotor part of the machine as the PMs [22, 23, 33, 39], which necessitates slip rings
and brushes or an exciter, or on the stator [17–22, 24, 26, 28, 31, 37–39].
Fig. 2.2 Cross sections of the permanent magnet synchronous machine with claw pole field
excitation (PSCPF) [16]
For the HPM machines to operate as a variable voltage generator, the range of
air-gap flux density variation has to be designed to match the anticipated application
requirements. A number of HPM machine topologies have been reported in the
literature in recent years. The reported HPM machine topologies will be reviewed
next. An assessment will be made for each topology with a view of arriving at a
topology that will be studied in the following chapters.
Fig. 2.4 Simplified construction figure of HESG as reported in [17] (a) Axial section view (b)
Radial section view
parts of the machine share one common stator. Referring to Fig. 2.2, the assistant
part is composed of components 2–5; these represent the claw pole structure. The
field winding is placed on the stator; therefore, slip rings and brushes are not
required.
When current flows through the field winding (component 5), the magnetic path
of the DC flux is through the inner cylinder of component 3 (axial); the bottom of
component 3 (radial); the outer cylinder of component 3 (axial); the air-gap δ1
(radial); plane magnet pole (axial); the main air-gap δ (radial); stator iron core
(radial); air-gap δ (radial); claw pole magnet pole 2 (radial); magnetic shaft (axial);
air-gap δ2 (radial); and inner cylinder of component 3. The magnetic path of the PM
is through the claw pole magnet pole; air-gap δ (radial); stator iron core; air-gap δ
(radial); claw-plane magnetic pole; PM (N pole); and rotor iron core and PM
(S pole), as illustrated in Fig. 2.3.
Zhao and Yan also discussed an improved PSCPF machine, referred to as the
hybrid excitation synchronous generator (HESG), as illustrated in Fig. 2.4. It is
20 2 Hybrid Electric Machine Concept
Fig. 2.5 A new type hybrid excitation claw pole synchronous machine (HECPSG) components
[40]
basically a similar structure to that of the PSCPF, the dissimilarity being that the
latter has clapboard inserts that are made of nonmagnetic material. The clapboard
introduces an air-gap and thus reduces the coupling between the PM and wound field
excitation, making the two fields independent of each other. For both the PSCPF and
HESG designs, the PM and wound field excitations act independently; that is, they
are magnetically in parallel.
In 2007, Chao-hui et al. [18] presented a study of a new HPM machine based on
the HESG topology called the hybrid excitation claw pole synchronous generator
(HECPSG). The structure of the HECPSG is shown in Figs. 2.5 and 2.6.
The stator of the HECPSG consists of multiphase windings. The claw poles of the
rotor are magnetized by a cylindrical wound coil and a cylinder-shaped permanent
magnet, which is axially magnetized. The flux under one pole pair consists of two
2.3 Different Hybrid Machine Topologies 21
parts: one is produced by the permanent magnets and the other produced by the coil
exciting current [18]. The magnetic field from one claw pole passes through the
air-gap and stator core and back to another claw pole. No detailed discussion is given
for the interaction between the PM and winding fields, that is, potential for demag-
netization, heating effects, and reaction effects. Furthermore, the contribution from
each field source to the stator-induced back-EMF is not discussed. Table 2.1 sum-
marizes the advantages and disadvantages of the HECPSG topology.
Spooner et al. [19]. discussed hybrid excitation of AC and DC machines for rail
traction and engine-mounted generators. Transverse-flux AC synchronous machines
are excited by means of a simple DC coil mounted on the stator, as shown in
Fig. 2.7a. Consequently, they are naturally brushless, they are reported to have
low rotor losses (since the rotor has no permanent magnet poles), and they are
mechanically suited to very high speed. However, the authors do not consider high-
frequency losses that may occur in the solid rotor poles. The basic machine cross-
section schematic is illustrated in Fig. 2.7a, consisting of two stator sections joined
by a soft-magnetic outer casing and separated by the field coil. The rotor has two
similar sections, one in each stator section and mutually displaced in space, in this
case by 180 mechanical. Each rotor section has a salient structure, Fig. 2.7b. The
field coil DC current establishes a set of north poles on rotor Sect. 1 and a set of south
poles on rotor Sect. 2, as illustrated in Fig. 2.7b. Each stator coil encloses both stator
core sections and experiences alternate north and south rotor poles as the rotor turns.
The flux-linking of a stator coil is equivalent to that in a conventional radial field
machine design of half the total core length [19] since there are empty spaces
between the rotor soft-magnetic iron poles. A major problem for designers is the
provision of sufficient magnetic material to carry flux between the two rotor sections.
Furthermore, there is a substantial leakage flux when the stator sections are faced by
the large effective air-gap of the “empty” or high reluctance rotor sections.
Fixing magnets in the empty spaces of each rotor section, as shown in Fig. 2.7c,
provides a pole opposite to those established by the field winding and enhances the
22 2 Hybrid Electric Machine Concept
Fig. 2.7 Transverse-flux machine components as reported by Spooner et al. [19] (a) Machine cross
section (b) Machine soft-magnetic rotor (c) Machine rotor with saliency and permanent magnets
mechanical rotational symmetry (balance). The flux that passes through the machine
shaft due to the permanent magnets is subtracted from that due to the excitation field
current and so makes possible a greater flux-per-pole for each rotor section. The
required field current can thus be reduced from the design of Fig. 2.7b, and leakage
flux is also reduced [19]. Thus, transverse-flux machine arrangements appear to be
an attractive option for small- and medium-size generators [19].
Spooner et al. [40] presented a rotary toroidal version of the transverse-flux
hybrid excitation machine, based on the work of Evans and Eastham transverse-
flux AC machine topology. The machine construction is illustrated in Fig. 2.8,
showing a toroidal wound stator core of multiphase windings, DC field winding
located inside the toroidal core, and two rotating discs with alternate permanent
magnet and soft-magnetic poles. The flux-linkage paths throughout the machine
parts due to both the PM’s and stationary field coil are illustrated in Fig. 2.9. If the
two rotor poles are only provided by PMs, the flux path can be traced from one rotor
plate containing north pole magnets, crossing the air-gap into the toroidal stator, and
then traveling circumferentially across the second air-gap into the south magnet pole
on the opposite plate, through the plate into the shaft and back to the first plate to
2.3 Different Hybrid Machine Topologies 23
close the loop at the north pole [20], as shown in Fig. 2.9a. A modification to the
design of Fig. 2.9a has soft-magnetic poles between the respective north and south
PM poles, as illustrated in Fig. 2.11b [19], resulting in additional flux paths. Thus,
flux from the north pole on the right-hand side plate crosses to the stator but then
comes back to the same rotor disc via the soft iron pole [20], as shown in Fig. 2.9b. In
this case, flux does not generally pass through the rotor shaft. However, during the
operation of the machine, flux travels through both paths, subject to reluctance
variation in the shaft. Finally, there is a third flux path due to the field excitation
coil that drives flux through the rotor shaft, rotor plate, iron poles, air-gap, stator, and
the second iron poles on the opposite disc [20], as illustrated in Fig 2.9b, c for both
strengthening and weakening modes, respectively. The toroidal transverse-flux
machine configurations are brushless machines generating an AC output that is
modified by the DC field winding excitation current [21]. For both transverse-flux
topologies illustrated in Figs. 2.7, 2.8 and 2.9, the main PM field and moderating
wound field are magnetically in parallel, their advantages and disadvantages being
noted in Table 2.2.
winding MMF low [22]. Hence, the machine air-gap flux can be modified by the field
winding current direction and magnitude. The PM and rotor wound field excitation
sources are magnetically in parallel. Table 2.3 summarizes the advantages and
disadvantages of the HESM topology.
2.3 Different Hybrid Machine Topologies 25
Fig. 2.11 Cross section of the of SynPM machine reported by Xiaogang and Lipo, showing one
phase belt of the stator winding [40]
phase belt coils, the coil back-EMFs for the three excitation modes are as shown in
Fig. 2.12, while Fig. 2.13 illustrates the corresponding open circuit flux lines due to
positive, zero, and negative DC field currents. A phase belt is formed by connecting
three coils of the same phase in series, as shown in Fig. 2.11; thus, the resulting
phase back-EMFs for the cases of positive, zero, and negative field winding current
are as shown in Fig. 2.14. Slip rings and brushes are required for this machine
topology. For the machine discussed, excitation produces around 67% of the total
air-gap flux [23]. The flow of the flux is radial for both PM and DC field windings,
which are magnetically acting in parallel. Table 2.4 summarizes the advantages and
disadvantages of the SynPM topology.
2.3 Different Hybrid Machine Topologies 27
Fig. 2.13 Flux lines of the six-pole SynPM machine presented by Xiaogang and Lipo [40]. (a) Full
positive field current (b) Zero field current (c) Full negative field current
Fig. 2.15 Consequent pole PM hybrid excitation machine (CPPM) [40]. (a) Magnetic structure of
the CPPM machine [25] (b) Magnetizing effect of the field flux (c) Demagnetizing effect of the field
flux (d) 3 kW CPPM prototype
30 2 Hybrid Electric Machine Concept
Fig. 2.16 Field controlled Torus-NS machine (FCT-NS) [40]. (a) Machine components (b) Stator
assembly (c) Rotor assembly
Aydin et al. discussed an axial flux machine designed to improve the flux weakening
operation of the previously reported axial flux, toroidal PM machines [26]. The
machine is essentially an axial field version of the CPPM and was referred to as the
field controlled Torus-NS (FCT-NS) machine. The machine construction consists of
two outer rotor discs carrying axially magnetized permanent magnets alternatively
placed with slotted magnetic iron pole pieces. There are two slotted stator cores, an
inner and outer core, realized by tape wound laminations inserted with multiphase
AC windings and a DC field winding between the stator inner and outer cores, as
illustrated schematically in Fig. 2.16. Variations on the FCT-NS design were
presented by Lipo and Aydin [27, 28].
Figure 2.17 shows the main flux direction of a two-pole portion of the FCT
machine at the average diameter [26] (a); rotor flux directions (b); air-gap flux
directions (c); and operating principle of the FCT machine (d) for zero (i), positive
(ii), and negative (iii) field current. Figure 2.17e shows the FCT stator and rotor
components. Figure 2.18 illustrates schematics of the single-rotor-single-stator
topology (a); the NN- and NS-type double-rotor-single-stator (b and c); double-
stator-single-rotor (d); and multistage (e) concepts.
Figure 2.19 illustrates the hardware of the NN-type FCAFPM machine as
reported in the literature. The CPPM and variants are all parallel permanent magnet
and wound field magnetic designs. Table 2.5 summarizes the advantages and
disadvantages of the CPPM and variants as reported in [24–29].
Amara et al. proposed a dual-rotor machine that is composed of two rotors placed
together (one wound and the other with PMs) inside the same stator assembly, as
shown in Fig. 2.20. The design employs juxtaposed magnetic circuits that, according
2.3 Different Hybrid Machine Topologies 31
Fig. 2.17 Field controlled Tours-NS type (FCT-NS) [40]. (a) Main flux direction of the FCT
machine [26] (b) Rotor flux directions [26] (c) Air-gap flux directions (d) Operating principle (e)
FCT rotor and stator components
Fig. 2.18 Reported combinations of the FCAFPM machines [40]. (a) Single-rotor-single-stator (b)
NN-type double-rotor-single-stator (c) NS-type double-rotor-single-stator (d) Double-stator-single-
rotor (e) Multistage
Fig. 2.19 NN-type FCAFPM machine reported in [40]. (a) Stator view pre-impregnation (b)
Complete stator assembly (c) Rotor assembly
Table 2.5 Advantages and disadvantages of CPPM and variants as reported in [24–29]
Field
Advantages Disadvantages path
(1) Control of the CPPM is convenient (1) Additional DC winding in the stator Parallel
(2) The air-gap flux can be controlled reduces the power density, such that the
without affecting the magnetization char- additional air-gap surface associated with
acteristics of the PMs this winding does not participate in the
(3) A wide range of air-gap flux control energy conversion process
can be obtained with a low DC excitation
field ampere-turn requirement
(4) Slip rings and brushes are not required
Fig. 2.21 Imbricated hybrid excitation machine (IHEM) [40]. (a) Machine cross section (b) Rotor
structure
excitation coil that is located on either the rotor or the stator, the latter case avoiding
all sliding contacts. The stator is composed of two identical parts linked by a yoke, as
shown in Fig. 2.21a. The main goal of this design was to ensure that the flux created
by the excitation winding does not pass through the PM; hence, the possibility of
demagnetization is greatly reduced [30].
34 2 Hybrid Electric Machine Concept
Furthermore, Vido et al. proposed two improved versions of the IHEM [31], the
(i) homopolar and (ii) bipolar hybrid excitation synchronous machines, HHESM and
BHESM, respectively, as illustrated in Fig. 2.22. Cross-sectional schematics of both
prototypes are shown in Fig. 2.22. The rotors consist of three parts, one a solid core,
one part laminated core, and a set of permanent magnets. The schematics show an
axial cut of the stator and rotor for both prototypes, which are six-pole pairs. The two
machine rotors have the same dimensions. By comparing the two topologies, it can
be observed that the lateral permanent magnets are not present in the BHESM
prototype [31].
The various flux paths created by excitation coils, lateral PMs (side magnets), and
azimuth PMs may be divided into two categories: homopolar and bipolar flux paths.
The homopolar flux path represents a flow of flux through machine parts in axial and
radial directions. The bipolar design has flux paths in either radial or axial direction.
Therefore, the flux generated by the field DC coils has only one path, which is
homopolar in nature, as shown in Fig. 2.23a. Moreover, the homopolar path for the
lateral PMs can be observed in Fig. 2.23a. The flux generated by the PMs has two
distinct paths, one of which is bipolar, as shown in Fig. 2.23b, c, which creates north
and south poles under the active parts [32]. The flux path generated by the azimuth
PMs is primarily oriented perpendicular to the axial direction of the machine [32]. A
portion of the flux generated by the lateral PMs is oriented in the axial direction of
the machine via the rotor flux collector, as shown in Fig. 2.23c. In other words, the
fluxes created by either the PMs or the wound field excitation that exhibits a
homopolar path only give rise to one type of pole (either north or south), depending
on the direction in which the magnets are magnetized and the polarity of current in
the DC field coils [32]. Flux only passes once through the air-gap under the active
part, and then it returns first via the stator end shields and then via the rotor flux path,
as illustrated in Fig. 2.23d [32]. Figure 2.24a shows flux paths created by the DC
field coils for the BHESM design. This bipolar configuration passes through two
annular excitation coils. Each coil acts in one polarity of pole [31]. The flux created
by an excitation coil goes through active parts and an air-gap (homopolar path).
Figure 2.24b shows the bipolar flux path created by PMs, where this bipolar flux
passes through active parts and air-gap, creating north and south poles. Figure 2.24c
shows the PM leakage flux path, which is not through the active parts and hence does
not contribute to torque production [31]. Figure 2.25 shows homopolar flux paths
created by PMs, as reported in [31]. For homopolar hybrid excitation machines, the
total flux passing through the stator windings exhibits a DC component, while for
bipolar hybrid excitation machines, the total flux passing through the armature
windings does not have a DC component [31]. Thus, although air-gap flux control
is effective for both the HHESM and BHESM machines, the DC current excitation
efficiency is better for the HHESM because of the solid rotor core parts [31]. For the
HHESM operating with enhanced excitation flux, magnetic saturation occurs when
the magnetic pole in which the DC excitation is acting is saturated, even if the other
pole is still not saturated [32]. However, for the BHESM, magnetic saturation occurs
only when both magnetic poles are saturated, from which the authors conclude that
the BHESM has a wider excitation flux variation [32]. The efficiency of the hybrid
2.3 Different Hybrid Machine Topologies 35
Fig. 2.22 Homopolar and bipolar hybrid excitation synchronous machines [40]. (i) Schematic
(i) Schematic (ii) Prototype rotor details (ii) Prototype rotor details (iii) Prototype stator and rotor
(iii) Rotor laminations (a) First prototype machine (HHESM) (b) Second prototype machine
(BHESM)
36 2 Hybrid Electric Machine Concept
Fig. 2.23 HHESM various flux paths due to deferent excitations [40]. (a) Homopolar flux path due
to DC coils (b) Bipolar flux path (azimuthal magnets) (c) Bipolar flux path due to PMs (d)
Homopolar flux path due to PMs
excitation is better for the HHESM than it is for the BHESM design because of the
leakage flux path, as shown in Fig. 2.24c [31], which does not contribute to torque
production. Table 2.6 summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of the IHEM
topology.
Fodoren et al. present the series double excited synchronous machine (SDESM) that
has series excitation circuits [33, 34]. The parallel excitation circuit reported in some
of the previously presented topologies suffer from the drawback of construction
complexity [33]. The main advantage of the SDESM appears in applications where
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blood, the unconscious hand still grasping the hilt of the sword that
had been drawn in honor of the maiden. “Ah, beauteous friend!”
exclaims the lady, “how dearly hast thou paid for my love! The good
and the joy we have shared have only brought thee death.
Beauteous friend, courteous and wise, valiant, heroic, good knight in
every guise, since thou has lost thy youth for me in this manner, in
this strait, and in this agony, as it clearly appears, what else remains
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company? Friend, friend, thy beauty has departed for the love of me,
thy flesh lies here bloody. Friend, friend, we were both nourished
together. I knew not what love was when I gave my heart to love
thee,” &c., &c., &c. “Young friend,” continues the lady, “thou wert my
joy and my consolation: for to see thee and to speak to thee alone
were sufficient to inspire joy, &c., &c., &c. Friend, what I behold slays
me, I feel that death is within my heart.” The lady then took up the
bloody sword, and requested Melyadus to look after the honorable
interment of the knight on that spot, and that he would see her own
body deposited by her “friend’s” side, in the same grave. Melyadus
expressed great astonishment at the latter part of the request, but as
the lady insisted that her hour was at hand, he promised to fulfil all
her wishes. Meanwhile the maiden knelt by the side of the dead
knight, held his sword to her lips, and gently died upon his breast.
Gyron said it was the wofullest sight that eye had ever beheld; but all
courteous as Gyron was, and he was so to such a remarkable
degree that he derived a surname from his courtesy, I say that in
spite of his sympathy and gallantry, he appears to have had a quick
eye toward making such profit as authors could make in those days,
from ready writing upon subjects of interest. Before another word
was said touching the interment of the two lovers, Gyron intimated
that he would write a ballad upon them that should have a universal
circulation, and be sung in all lands where there were gentle hearts
and sweet voices. Gyron performed what he promised, and the
ballad of “Absdlon and Cesala,” serves to show what very rough
rhymes the courteous poet could employ to illustrate a romantic
incident. Let it be added that, however the knights may sometimes
have failed in their truth, this was very rarely the case with the ladies.
When Jordano Bruno was received in his exile by Sir Philip Sidney,
he requited the hospitality by dedicating a poem to the latter. In this
dedication, he says: “With one solitary exception, all misfortunes that
flesh is heir to have been visited on me. I have tasted every kind of
calamity but one, that of finding false a woman’s love.”
It was not every knight that could make such an exception. Certainly
not that pearl of knights, King Arthur himself. What a wife had that
knight in the person of Guinever? Nay, he is said to have had three
wives of that name, and that all of them were as faithless as ladies
well could be. Some assert that the described deeds of these three
are in fact but the evil-doings of one. However this may be, I may
observe summarily here what I have said in reference to Guinever in
another place. With regard to this triple-lady, the very small virtue of
one third of the whole will not salubriously leaven the entire lump. If
romance be true, and there is more about the history of Guinever
than any other lady—she was a delicious, audacious, winning,
seductive, irresistible, and heartless hussy; and a shameless! and a
barefaced! Only read “Sir Lancelot du Lac!” Yes, it can not be
doubted but that in the voluminous romances of the old day, there
was a sprinkling of historical facts. Now, if a thousandth part of what
is recorded of this heart-bewitching Guinever be true, she must have
been such a lady as we can not now conceive of. True daughter of
her mother Venus, when a son of Mars was not at hand, she could
stoop to Mulciber. If the king was not at home, she could listen to a
knight. If both were away, esquire or page might speak boldly without
fear of being unheeded; and if all were absent, in the chase, or at the
fray, there was always a good-looking groom in the saddle-room with
whom Guinever could converse, without holding that so to do was
anything derogatory. I know no more merry reading than that same
ton-weight of romance which goes by the name of “Sir Lancelot du
Lac.” But it is not of that sort which Mrs. Chapone would recommend
to young ladies, or that Dr. Cumming would read aloud in the Duke
of Argyll’s drawing-room. It is a book, however, which a grave man a
little tired of his gravity, may look into between serious studies and
solemn pursuits—a book for a lone winter evening by a library-fire,
with wine and walnuts at hand; or for an old-fashioned summer’s
evening, in a bower through whose foliage the sun pours his adieu,
as gorgeously red as the Burgundy in your flask. Of a truth, a man
must be “in a concatenation accordingly,” ere he may venture to
address himself to the chronicle which tells of the “bamboches,”
“fredaines,” and “bombances,” of Guinever the Frail, and of Lancelot
du Lac.
We confess to having more regard for Arthur than for his triple-wife
Guinever. As I have had occasion to say in other pages, “I do not like
to give up Arthur!” I love the name, the hero, and his romantic deeds.
I deem lightly of his light o’love bearing. Think of his provocation both
ways! Whatever the privilege of chivalry may have been, it was the
practice of too many knights to be faithless. They vowed fidelity, but
they were a promise-breaking, word-despising crew. On this point I
am more inclined to agree with Dr. Lingard than with Mr. Hallam.
Honor was ever on their lips, but not always in their hearts, and it
was little respected by them, when found in the possession of their
neighbor’s wives. How does Scott consider them in this respect,
when in describing a triad of knights, he says,
How ready was the ecstatic young scamp with his reply:—
What came of this advice, the song tells in very joyous terms, for
which the reader may be referred to that grand collection the “Chants
et Chansons de la France.”
On the other hand, Mr. Kenelm Digby, who is, be it said in passing, a
painter of pages, looking at his object through pink-colored glasses,
thus writes of these young gentlemen, in his “Mores Catholici.”
“Truly beautiful does the fidelity of chivalrous youth appear in the
page of history or romance. Every master of a family in the middle
ages had some young man in his service who would have rejoiced to
shed the last drop of his blood to save him, and who, like Jonathan’s
armor-bearer, would have replied to his summons: ‘Fac omnia quæ
placent animo tuo; perge quo cupis; et ero tecum ubicumque
volueris.’ When Gyron le Courtois resolved to proceed on the
adventure of the Passage perilleux, we read that the valet, on
hearing the frankness and courtesy with which his lord spoke to him,
began to weep abundantly, and said, all in tears, ‘Sire, know that my
heart tells me that sooth, if you proceed further, you will never return;
that you will either perish there, or you will remain in prison; but,
nevertheless, nothing shall prevent me going with you. Better die
with you, if it be God’s will, than leave you in such guise to save my