《A Fault-Tolerant Parallel Structure of Single-Phase》.pdf

2988 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS, VOL. 60, NO. 8, AUGUST 2013 A Fault-Tolerant Parallel Structure of Single-Phase Full-Bridge Rectifiers for a Wound-Field Doubly Salient Generator Zhihui Chen, Member, IEEE , Ran Chen, and Zhe Chen, Senior Member, IEEE Abstract—The fault-tolerance design is widely adopted for high- An FSPM has a similar torque density as that of the fractional- reliability applications. In this paper, a parallel structure of slot PM machine [10], [11]. single-phase full-bridge rectifiers (FBRs) (PS-SPFBR) is proposed However, DSPMs and FSPMs are suffering some disadvan- for a wound-field doubly salient generator. The analysis shows the potential fault-tolerance capability of the PS-SPFBR over the com- tages from the use of PMs. PMs not only restrict the operating mon three-phase FBR. The normal no-load and loading operations temperature of the machines but also make the manufacturing are discussed, and the fault-tolerance ability is analyzed. A doubly process more complicated. When DSPMs or FSPMs work as salient generator prototype is built and tested; the machine is also generators, the voltage regulation may become a big problem modeled and simulated with the finite element method. The results due to the uncontrollable flux of the PMs, particularly in case obtained from simulation are in good agreement with that from of faults [12]. the experiments under both normal no-load and loading opera- tions. The impacts of a single-phase open-circuit fault have been The hybrid excitation machines adopt both the PMs and