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- Grunditz, Emma, 1980, et al.
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Thermal capability of electric vehicle PMSM with different slot areas via thermal network analysis
- 2021
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Ingår i: eTransportation. - : Elsevier BV. - 2590-1168. ; 8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, the effect that a varied stator slot size has on the efficiency and thermal capability of a permanent magnet synchronous machine for an electric vehicle, is evaluated and quantified. A machine with four differently sized slot areas was electromagnetically evaluated with finite element analysis, and thermally with a lumped parameter network model. By decreasing the slot size while keeping other dimensions fixed, the core losses reduce due to the wider magnetic path, whereas the winding losses increase. Additionally, a higher maximum torque is reached due to reduced saturation. Results are compared in the machine's torque-speed operating area regarding machine-part and total losses, continuous torque and transient overload capability, as well as during 19 low, middle and high-speed drive cycles regarding energy losses and peak winding temperature. The largest slot showed the lowest winding losses and thus the highest thermally limited torque capability. In contrast, the energy losses with the largest slot were the highest in 13 of the drive cycles, and the lowest in 11 of them with the smallest slot due to its lower part load (i.e. core) losses. The smallest slot would also result in the lowest material cost since it has the least copper.
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- Mademlis, Georgios, 1992, et al.
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Multidisciplinary Cooling Design Tool for Electric Vehicle SiC Inverters Utilizing Transient 3D-CFD Computations
- 2021
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Ingår i: eTransportation. - : Elsevier BV. - 2590-1168. ; 7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper proposes a new design tool that can be used for the development of a proper cooling component for high-power three-phase SiC module-packs for electric vehicles. Specifically, a multidisciplinary approach of the design process is presented that is based on the accurate electrical, thermal and fluid-mechanics modeling as well as computational testing of a high-power three-phase SiC modulepack under transient-load conditions, so that it can effectively meet the highly-demanding cooling requirements of an electric vehicle inverter. The cooling plate is initially designed by using steady-state based 3D-computational-fluid-dynamic (CFD) tool, as in a conventional method. Then, the proposed design algorithm fine-tunes it through transient 3D-CFD computations by following a specific iterative improvement procedure considering the heat dissipation requirements for the SiC power switches during the official driving cycles for passenger vehicles and during abrupt acceleration tests under several ambient environments. Therefore, not only overheating at all operating conditions is avoided, but also, accurate thermal modeling of the individual inverter modules is provided that can be used for lifetime estimations and for calculating the overload capability of the inverter. The design improvement attained with the proposed procedure against the conventional steady-state approach is validated on a traction 450 A SiC inverter with the model of a real passenger vehicle.
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