New design of electric vehicle motor based on high-strength soft magnetic materials
ISSN: 0332-1649
Article publication date: 31 October 2022
Issue publication date: 12 January 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of the paper is to make a high speed motor based on the characteristics of high strength silicon steel. With the higher requirements for torque density and power density of the driving system of electric vehicles (EV), conventional magnetic materials have been difficult to meet the demands in the future. In this paper, a new type of high-strength non-grain-oriented (NGO)material is tested.
Design/methodology/approach
Through analyzing the characteristic of high strength silicon steel, it is applied to the rotor part of a high-speed motor. A topological optimization is applied to achieve higher power density and higher efficiency of the motor.
Findings
The feasibility of the scheme was analyzed by the finite element method, and a prototype was also fabricated to verify the analysis.
Originality/value
In this paper, the characteristics of new soft magnetic materials as a breakthrough to manufacture a new generation of high-performance electrical machine (EM) are discussed. Consequently, the presented work greatly facilitates further explorations and guides the innovative application of soft magnetic materials and the iterative optimization of motor structure.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the program of scholars of the Xingliao Plan (No. XLYC2002113) and Shenyang University of Technology Interdisciplinary Team Project (No. 100600453). The authors wish to thank their colleague Mr Junsheng Shi for technical support.
Citation
Li, Y., Wang, J., Zhang, H. and Pei, R. (2023), "New design of electric vehicle motor based on high-strength soft magnetic materials", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 42 No. 1, pp. 261-270. https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-01-2022-0067
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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