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Modelling permanent magnet (de-)magnetisation and soft iron hysteresis within an FEA environment
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Contents
• Introduction to Vector Fields Software
• Magnetisation & de-magnetisation in permanent magnets
– Permanent magnet DC machines
– De-magnetisation under fault conditions in a PM machine
• Ferromagnetic hysteresis
– Hysteresis brake
– Electric Steering motors
– Hysteresis motor
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Vector Fields Software provides
• SOFTWARE
• SUPPORT
• TRAINING
• CONSULTANCY
• PARTNERSHIP FOR R&D
for High Frequency Engineering
for Low frequency Engineering
• Founded at Oxford England in 1984 by former employees of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
• Acquired by Cobham plc in 2005
• Name changed in May 2009
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CONCERTO suite
• High Frequency Electromagnetics
– FDTD Methods
• 3d Microwave analysis
• Antennas, waveguides, filters
• Allows solution to larger problems
• Thermal analysis also available
– Method of Moments
• Discretise material surfaces
• RCS, antenna placement
– Finite Element Analysis Solver
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OPERA suite
• OPERA-2d– Statics and time varying fields– Stress and thermal analysis– Rotary & linear motion analysis– (de-)magnetisation & hysteresis– Lossy-dielectrics – Space charge– Optimisation– Electrical Machines environment
• OPERA-3d – TOSCA : static analysis– ELEKTRA : time varying fields– CARMEN : rotating and linear machines and actuators– SCALA : space charge analysis– TEMPO: thermal analysis– DEMAG: (de-)magnetisation solver– QUENCH: quench in Superconducting magnets– SOPRANO: wave propagation problems– Optimisation
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The (De-)magnetisation Solver
• Transient MagnetisationAnalysis– Developed specifically to model
the magnetisation process in hard magnetic materials
– Uses ‘virgin’ BH curve for magnetisation and ‘demag’curves as field decreases
– Inclusion of temperature effects either as a• simple, single temperature model
OR• distributed temperature model in coupled electromagnetic/thermal simulations
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Typical Appliance motor
• Magnet Inserts in Steel Ring
• Magnetize in a solenoid using a magnetic core
• Transient solver, incl. eddy current effects
• Use of the true magnet characteristic in the ‘application device’(e.g. electric motor)
• Computation of de-magnetisation effects arising during operation due to eg. reverse armature currents
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Magnet ring during magnetisation pulse
Results courtesy of Magnequench
Note initial flux exclusion from conducting cylinder
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Complete machine - no armature reaction
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Measurement Model
Radial Field in the Airgap
Results courtesy of Magnequench
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Application in magnetizing of PMDC magnets
Steel magnetizing fixture in uniform field
Applied flux density as a function of time
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Remanent field strength after magnetizing
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Behaviour during operation
Air-gap flux density during operation
Minimum values of flux density in magnets
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Modelling Magnetising Fixtures in OPERA-3D
Magnetising fixtures may exhibit some important
three-dimensional effects, due to end windings
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Demagnetisation ‘in service’
• Polynomial ‘demag curve’ representation for hard rare-earth magnets
• Look-up table more appropriate for alnico and ferrite materials, where finding coefficients for the quadratic becomes difficult.
• Recoil line slope user-specified
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Demagnetisation ‘in service’
• PM Generator– Run on Open Circuit
– Impose a sudden short circuit and observe demagnetisation
– Clear fault
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Demagnetisation in ‘Service’
• Minimum Flux density level reached in magnet during open circuit and short circuit event
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Short Circuit Currents & Voltages
– Phase Voltages and Currents before, during and after 3-phase short circuit
– Observe reduced post-fault open circuit voltage, due to PM demagnetisation
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Treatment of hysteresis in soft magnetic materials
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Treatment of hysteresis in soft magnetic materials
• The magnetic behaviour is considered as a trajectory B(H)
• The trajectory is based on a measured major symmetric loop that is supplied by the user.
• The data may be obtained from in-house measurements or published data-sheets, and are imported as standard input tables.
– From the data, the method uses the turning points of the B(H) trajectory to predict the behaviour of arbitrary minor hysteresis loops.
The method is practical because it:
• Makes only realistic demands on the user for material data
• Provides a good approximation to the true physical behaviour
• Does not require large computational resources
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Flux Distribution in Hysteresis Brake
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Eddy Current Loss (Brake at 600 rpm)
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Instantaneous Hysteresis Loss (brake at 600rpm)
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Hysteresis Brake Figures
• T (ave) = 2.7 Nm/m
• Speed = 600 rpm
• => Power=169 Watts
OR
• Hyst Loss = 151 W
• Eddy Current Loss= 14 W
=> Consistent!
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Drag Torque
• Electric Steering motors are required to meet extremely demanding specifications
• One of these is that it should take very little torque to rotatethe motors' rotors when the coils are not energized (this torque is referred to as 'drag-torque‘)
• The Hysteresis solver is ideally placed to investigate these effects
• Collaboration between Vector Fields and TRW Conekt (Partners in TSB funded ‘Advanced Electrical Machines via Materials’) focuses on accurate evaluation of Drag Torque in PM machines for different materials, the properties of which are supplied byTRW.
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Instantaneous Hysteresis loss after 40 milliseconds
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Instantaneous Hysteresis loss after 60 milliseconds
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Typical Drag Torque Patterns
Typical cogging – No Hysteresis
Drag Torque for 2 Silicon Steel materials and 1 hard material
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Hysteresis motor
• Simple 50 Hz, 4-pole 3-phase hysteresis motor– 12 slot conventional stator
– Annular rotor made from hysteretic material
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Hysteresis motor
• Torque produced due to hysteresis with a consequent rise in rotational speed
• Ripple of the torque arises because the applied field from the stator is rotating at 1500 RPM but the rotor is almost stationary in comparison
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Conclusions
• De-magnetisation and hysteresis can be modelled
• Available as full transient solvers (Elektra TR) & in Rotating and Linear machines solvers (Carmen RM & LM)
• Available in 2D and 3D
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