Efficiency improvements of switched reluctance motors with high-quality iron steel and enhanced conductor slot fill

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 819-825

  Hayashi, Hiroaki ^a   Nakamura, Kensaku ^a   Chiba, Akira ^a   Fukao, Tadashi ^b   Tungpimolrut, Kanokvate ^c   Dorrell, David G ^d  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Motor Solution   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amorphous alloy; Efficiency; Low loss materials; Super Core; Switched reluctance motor (SRM)

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; FILL FACTOR; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-SILICON STEEL; LOW LOSS; LOW LOSS MATERIAL; MAGNETIC STEEL; SUPER CORE; SWITCHED RELUCTANCE MOTOR; TEST MACHINE;

AMORPHOUS ALLOYS; IRON; MOTORS; RELUCTANCE MOTORS; SILICON ALLOYS; SILICON STEEL;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 70849130641     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2009.2025425     Document Type: Article

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