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Computational design and additive manufacturing of electromagnetic coils

The modern world is heavily reliant on electromagnetic devices to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vice versa. These devices are fundamental to powering our society, and the growing need for automated production lines and electrified tr ...

EPFL2023

Small scale very high speed slotless permanent magnet motors

Guillaume Paul-André Burnand

This research work has been triggered by an industrial project aimed at modelling and manufacturing a small-scale very high speed motor. Very high speed electrical motors offer the main advantage of reducing the size of a system. Indeed, at constant output ...

EPFL2020

Integrated, Eddy-Current-Based Sensing of Rotor Position for Magnetic Levitation

Yves Perriard, Sean Thomas, Juan Patricio Tomás Peralta Fierro

Magnetically-levitated drives are compelling in applications where long-lifetime operation or process chamber encapsulation is a requirement. To exploit these advantages, contactless position sensors are needed for position information of the rotor. Off-th ...

IEEE2020

Rapid 3-D Magnetic Integral Field Computation of Current-Carrying Finite Arc Segments With Rectangular Cross Section

Basile Kawkabani, Frédéric Michael Maurer

The computation of 3-D magnetic fields is a demanding task in the analysis of electrical machines and other electromagnetic devices. In this context, integral field calculation provides a smooth solution, high precision and resolution, "on-demand"-calculat ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Small-scale organic Rankine cycle turbo-generator for waste heat recovery on truck engine

Kévin Rosset

Truck engine waste heat recovery (WHR) systems have been investigated for many years. Among them, organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems show the highest potential, but still lack efficient small-scale expansion devices, in practice. Proposed expanders are of ...

EPFL2020

Electrical effects in winding of large electrical ac machines application to advanced large size DFIM

Frédéric Michael Maurer

To meet the electrical grid's demand on pump power variation, GE Renewable Energy develops since 10 years variable speed machines (also called Doubly Fed Induction Generators or DFIG). Within turbogenerators, the phenomenon of circulating currents in Roebe ...

EPFL2019

Contribution to the Ultra-Fast Charging of Electric Vehicles : The Configurable Modular Multilevel Converter (CMMC)

Rosa Martel Danoary Tsirinomeny

It is generally agreed that one of the drawbacks of a conventional vehicle is the inability to always reach the best operating point of the engine and the inability to regenerate the kinetic energy. Meaning, even with the help of the gearbox or automatic t ...

EPFL2016

Modular multilevel battery packaging for a universal and flexible EVs charging system

Rosa Martel Danoary Tsirinomeny

Electric Vehicles (EVs) carmakers are heavily confronted by the limited fault ride-through capabilities of actual EVs battery packs. Therefore, this paper introduces a new method of EVs battery packaging based on modular multilevel battery modules as well ...

2014

An Advanced Teaching Lab for the Setting up of an Islanded Production Unit

André Hodder, Basile Kawkabani

The present paper addresses an advanced teaching lab consisting of setting up an islanded production unit. This teaching lab takes place in the very last semester at master level for students in electrical engineering with energy specialization. The purpos ...

2013

Contribution to the Active Generator Principle : the Gate-commutated Polyphased Matrix Converter

Antoine Béguin

This work is part of the innovative "Active Generator" (AG) project. AG is a concept that suggests a new arrangement of the turbine-generator line of a high power utility (a few hundred of MW) in order to de-synchronize the rotation speed of the turbine-ge ...

EPFL2012

An Advanced Teaching Lab for the Setting up of an Islanded Production Unit

André Hodder, Basile Kawkabani

The present paper addre teaching lab consisting of setting up an is unit. This teaching lab takes place in the ve master level for students in electrical engin specialization. The purpose of this teaching knowledge learned in different areas such as contro ...

2012

Electromagnetic Model of an Ironless Inductive Position Sensor

Yves Perriard, Alessandro Danisi, Alessandro Masi

An ironless position sensor is a novel sensing structure which exhibits intrinsic immunity to external magnetic fields, since it is characterized by air-cored supply and sensing windings. This new solution may be of significant interest for applications wh ...

IEEE2012

Finite Element Model of Hydro Generators Coupled to a Grid Simulation Software

Gilles Rosselet

For the simulation of electrical power systems (adjustable speed drives, wind farms, complete grids, etc.) the Kirchhoff's model is used. Each of the components of this model (transmission line, circuit breaker, electrical machines, etc.) is represented by ...

EPFL2010

New Estimation of Electromagnetic Sound Power Radiated by a PM Machine: An Active and Passive Control Guideline

This paper presents an initial state of the art about the estimation of the sound power emitted by electrical machines. The paper proposes a new method, more accurate, to evaluate the sound power emitted by a PM machine by a 3D FEM mechanical analysis. It ...

2009

Large low speed hydrogenerators - UMP and additional damper losses in eccentricity conditions

Stefan Keller

The present thesis is an advanced contribution to the design process of large synchronous generators with high number of poles. It proposes two original contributions, the first one allowing a very precise prediction of the no-load voltage and of the no-lo ...

EPFL2007

A Novel Air-Gap Monitoring System For Large Low Speed Hydro-Generators

Jean-Jacques Simond, Mai Tu Xuan, Roland Wetter, Stefan Keller

This paper describes a novel and patented air-gap monitoring system for large low speed synchronous hydro-generators. This new system is based on inductive sensors, it is able to measure in real time a static or a dynamic rotor eccentricity, a stator or a ...

2006

Computation of the no-load voltage waveform of laminated salient-pole synchronous generators

Jean-Jacques Simond, Mai Tu Xuan, Stefan Keller

This paper presents a combined analytical and finite-element (FE) method for computation of the no-load voltage waveform of laminated salient-pole synchronous generators. The described method takes into account saturation effects as well as the damper bar ...

2006

Synchronous Generator No-Load Voltage Prediction using a Combined Analytical and FEM Approach

Jean-Jacques Simond, Mai Tu Xuan, Stefan Keller

A combined analytical and FEM method for prediction of the no-load voltage waveform of laminated salient pole synchronous generators is presented in this article. Very precise prediction of the no-load voltage, including saturation effects as well as the e ...

2005

Prediction of the No-Load Voltage Waveform of Laminated Salient-Pole Synchronous Generators

Jean-Jacques Simond, Mai Tu Xuan, Stefan Keller

This paper presents a combined analytical and FEM method for prediction of the no-load voltage waveform of laminated salient-pole synchronous generators. The described method takes into account saturation effects as well as the damper bar currents due to t ...

2005

12-Pulse LCI Synchronous Drive for a 20 MW Compressor - Modeling, Simulation and Measurements

Jean-Jacques Simond, Mai Tu Xuan, Roland Wetter, Alain Sapin

The current source thyristor inverter is still today a suitable choice for supplying high power adjustable speed drives for pumps or compressors. This paper presents a 12-pulse LCI (load commutated inverter) synchronous drive for a 20 MW compressor, it foc ...

2005