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Heat production in the windings of the stators of electric machines under stationary condition

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In electric machines due to high currents and resistive losses (joule heating) heat is produced. To avoid damages by overheating the design of effective cooling systems is required. Therefore the knowledge of heat sources and heat transfer processes is necessary. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate a good and effective calculation method for the temperature analysis based on homogenization techniques. These methods have been applied for the stator windings in a slot of an electric machine consisting of copper wires and resin. The key quantity here is an effective thermal conductivity, which characterizes the heterogeneous wire resin-arrangement inside the stator slot. To illustrate the applicability of the method, the analysis of a simplified, homogenized model is compared with the detailed analysis of temperature behavior inside a slot of an electric machine according to the heat generation. We considered here only the stationary situation. The achieved numerical results are accurate and show that the applied homogenization technique works in practice. Finally the results of simulations for the two cases, the original model of the slot and the homogenized model chosen for the slot (unit cell), are compared to experimental results.

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Notes

  1. Rotor and its effects are not considered for simulations and experiments in this paper.

  2. Here, phase to neutral because of the star- or Y connection.

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    Behzad Alebouyeh Samami, Martin Pieper, Gerd Breitbach & Josef Hodapp

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Alebouyeh Samami, B., Pieper, M., Breitbach, G. et al. Heat production in the windings of the stators of electric machines under stationary condition. Heat Mass Transfer 50, 1707–1716 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00231-014-1371-8

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