48550 Electrical Energy Technology Switched （48550年电能技术交换）.pdf

48550 Electrical Energy Technology 48550 Electrical Energy Technology Switched Reluctance Motor 1. Introduction The reluctance motor is an electric motor in which torque is produced by the tendency of its moveable part to move to a position where the inductance of the excited winding is maximized. The origin of the reluctance motor can be traced back to 1842, but the “reinvention” has been possibly due to the advent of inexpensive, high-power switching devices. The reluctance motor is a type of synchronous machine. It has wound field coils of a DC motor for its stator windings and has no coils or magnets on its rotor. Fig.1 shows its typical structure. It can be seen that both the stator and rotor have salient poles; hence, the machine is a doubly salient machine. Fig.1 Switched reluctance motor configurations The rotor is aligned whenever the diametrically opposite stator poles are excited. In a magnetic circuit, the rotating part prefers to come to the minimum reluctance position at the instance of excitation. While two rotor poles are aligned to the two stator poles, another set of rotor poles is out of alignment with respect to a different set of stator poles. Then, this set of stator poles is excited to bring the rotor poles into alignment. This elementary operation can be explained by Fig.2. In the figure, consider that the rotor poles r and r ′ and stator poles c and c′ are aligned. Apply a current to phase a 1 1 with the current direction as shown in Fig.2a. A flux is established through stator poles a and a′ and rotor poles r and r ′ which tends to pull the rotor poles r and r ′ 2 2 2 2 toward the stator poles a and a′, respectively. When they are aligned, the stator current of phase a is turned off