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Lecture Testing the SRM

The document discusses the Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM), highlighting its design features, such as the absence of windings on the rotor, which allows for efficient heat management and higher rotational speeds. It emphasizes the importance of accurately testing the SRM's static torque and flux-linkage characteristics due to its inherent non-linearity and dependency on rotor position and phase current. The testing methodology involves applying voltage pulses to determine flux-linkage and torque characteristics, which are crucial for optimizing control strategies and validating simulation tools.

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Lecture Testing the SRM

The document discusses the Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM), highlighting its design features, such as the absence of windings on the rotor, which allows for efficient heat management and higher rotational speeds. It emphasizes the importance of accurately testing the SRM's static torque and flux-linkage characteristics due to its inherent non-linearity and dependency on rotor position and phase current. The testing methodology involves applying voltage pulses to determine flux-linkage and torque characteristics, which are crucial for optimizing control strategies and validating simulation tools.

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Testing the Switched Reluctance Motor

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The Switched Reluctance Motor (SRM) is a variable reluctance stepping motor that is designed to
convert electrical energy to mechanical energy efficiently. It belongs to the class of machines that
depend upon magnetic reluctance variation to produce torque.

6/4 Conventional SRM

The figure illustrates the machine has six poles in the stator and four poles in the rotor. All the copper
winding in the stator only

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The most important features of SRM

 No windings on the rotor, thus allowing easier manufacturing.


 No winding-related heat source on the rotor, thus confining the majority
of heat generation to the stator, from where the heat is more easily
removed. This leads to a more robust thermal design.
 No permanent magnets in the machine.
 The stator structure is simple and it is easy to install the windings.
 Neither commutator nor brushes in the machine.
 Since no copper windings in the rotor so SRM can rotate with higher
speeds compared with its equivalent induction and permanent magnets
machines.

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The C/C’s of the Switched Reluctance Motor

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General about the switched reluctance motor among of the drive motors

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Complete operating circuit of the Switched Reluctance Motor

SRM circuit

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Long and short excitation of the Switched Reluctance Motor

Long Field Path

Short Field Path

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One tooth and Two teeth per pole Switched Reluctance Motor

(a) One Tooth per Pole (b) Two Teeth per Pole
Conventional SRM

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Testing the SRM

The two important requirements in testing the Switched reluctance motor (SRM)
are the accurate knowledge of its static torque characteristic and its flux-linkage
characteristic. The flux-linkage dependency of rotor position and phase current
creates a complex problem for the accurate characterization of switched
reluctance motors. This experiment determines the static torque characteristic and
the flux-linkage characteristic of the SRM using digital processing.

Background

The inherent non-linearity of the SRM makes torque production highly dependent
on the poles geometry and is characterized by a dual dependence on both the

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stator current and rotor position. It is essential to have accurate testing results of
the SRM flux-linkage and torque characteristics. The flux-linkage dependency of
the rotor position and phase current creates a complex problem for accurately
characterizing the SRM. The measurement of magnetization curves for any SRM
is an important step in validating the performance of simulation tools and for
determining optimized control strategies, such as current profiling or best firing
angles to achieve smooth torque, maximum average torque and the maximum
efficiency.
The below figure illustrates the test machine, it has three phase windings in the
stator and the rotor is toothed. Also the figure appears the absence of any kind of
windings or brushes or permanent magnets on the rotor so this advantage makes
this kind of electrical machines compete competitively with the rest of the electrical
machines in many applications and deserve to be tested to obtain it characteristic
to be stand on its accurate performance.

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Conventional Toothed-Rotor SRM

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Flux Density Distribution in 12/8 SRM Under the Test

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Measuring the Flux-Linkage Characteristic

The voltage equation is the base of the experimental method to determine the flux-linkage
characteristic, when a voltage pulse is applied to one of the phases of the SRM, with all other
phases open, its voltage equation is given by,
V=Ri+dΨ/dt
Where V is the instantaneous voltage across the phase windings, R is its resistance and I is
the current. The flux linkage characteristic Ψ is,

From this equation the flux-linkage can be computed for different values of current and then
use the previous equation.

The torque can be obtained indirectly from the co-energy equations:

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Test Rig of the Switched Reluctance Motor

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Flux-Linkage Characteristic versus the Current

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Static Torque Characteristic for the 12/8 Conventional SRM

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Required Report

Explain the difference between the two SRMs illustrated in the figure. How to test
both of them in the lab? What are the targets of testing these two machines in the
lab? Explain the advantages, disadvantages and the use of each of them. Draw
the test rig then write the necessary equations to find the characteristics?

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