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doi: 10.20998/2074-272X.2019.5.03
V.V. Rymsha, I.N. Radimov, M.V. Gulyy, I.V. Merkulov
MOTORSOLVE SOFTWARE PACKAGE: VERIFICATION OF PARAMETERS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BRUSHLESS PERMANENT MAGNET MOTOR
Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to include comparison of results of the modeling and calculation in the Mentor Siemens software MotorSolve and experiment of the brushless permanent magnet motor. Methodology. Numerical investigation using licensed software MotorSolve is performed. Calculations of motor parameters and characteristics are made using Finite Element Method. The experimental investigations were made on the hysteresis dynamometer AHD-603. Results. The results of the investigations show that the calculations of the parameters and characteristics of the motor in MotorSolve software almost match with the results of the experiments. Practical value. The high efficiency of the MotorSolve software for the modeling, calculation and research of the brushless permanent magnet motors are confirmed. References 4, tables 2, figures 10. Key words: brushless permanent magnet motor, stator winding data, experimental investigations.
Розглянуто деят можливостi програмного комплексу MotorSolve для моделювання i анатзу вентильних двигушв з постшними магттами. Наведено результаты розрахунку napaMempie i характеристик вентильного двигуна з вЫомими геометричними pозмipaми i даними обмотки статора. Результати розрахунку зктавлет з результатами експериментальних достджень. Бiбл. 4, табл. 2, рис. 10.
Ключовi слова: вентильний двигун з постшними магштами, 06M0TK0Bi даш статора, експериментальш дослвдження.
Рассмотрены некоторые возможности программного комплекса MotorSolve для моделирования и анализа вентильных
двигателей с постоянными магнитами. Представлены результаты расчета параметров и характеристик
вентильного двигателя с известными геометрическими размерами и обмоточными данными статора. Результаты
расчета сопоставлены с результатами экспериментальных исследований. Библ. 4, табл. 2, рис. 10.
Ключевые слова: вентильный двигатель с постоянными магнитами, обмоточные данные статора, экспериментальные
исследования.
Introduction. One of the advanced computer systems for the design and analysis of electric machines is the Mentor Siemens MotorSolve system, which is a software package that allows to simulate and calculate the parameters and characteristics of various types of electric machines [1]. The use of the MotorSolve system significantly speeds up the design process due to the availability of ready-made templates of designs for stators and rotors of induction machines, DC collector machines, and brushless permanent magnet machines, as well as an extensive library of materials used in electric machines.
Modeling an electric machine in the MotorSolve code, as well as determining its parameters and characteristics, is based on a circuit-field model. Magnetic field of the machine is calculated by the Finite Element Method, as well as in the well-known FEMM code. However, the FEMM code is not suitable for the direct calculation of the parameters and characteristics of the designed electrical machines without additional calculations outside the software.
Currently, brushless permanent magnet motors (BPMM) are a popular type of electric machine for special applications. There are a number of publications devoted to theoretical studies of BPMM in the MotorSolve software package, for example [2, 3]. However, there are very few publications devoted to verifying the calculation results of such machines in MotorSolve with the experimental results, and these are mainly scattered materials on the Internet. Verification is also of interest because the models and algorithms embedded in the MotorSolve code are closed to the user, which makes it impossible to assess the accuracy of the results obtained in the calculation.
In this regard, the goal of the paper is to compare the calculation results in the licensed software package MotorSolve of a BPMM which has known geometric dimensions and winding data with the experimental results.
Object of study. The object of the study is the BPMM, which was designed at «Electrical Engineering -New Technology» Ltd (Odessa) and is currently mass-produced (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1. External view of BPMM
For operation from a single-phase AC network 220 V 50 Hz, BPMM is equipped with a rotor position sensor and an electronic converter, which is a controllable
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electronic switch and a rectifier device. The electronic switch according to the signals of the rotor position sensor provides BPMM operation in the mode of a brushless DC motor with 120-degree phase switching.
The geometric dimensions of the active part of the studied BPMM and its winding data are given in Table 1.
phase overlap in the area of the frontal parts. The stator winding diagram is shown in Fig. 3.
Table 1
BPMM geometric dimensions and winding data
Name Value
Outer stator diameter, mm 82
Inner stator diameter, mm 50
Number of phases m 3
Number of stator slots Z 12
Number of rotor poles 2P 10
Gap between stator and rotor, mm 0,25
Stator package length, mm 42
Magnet height, mm 2,5
Magnet width, mm 12
Brand of magnet N38SH
Winding connection circuit Y
Number of turns in the coil 80
Wire diameter, mm 0,5
Fig. 2. Cross section of the BPMM active part
To reduce the mass and moment of inertia, the BPMM rotor is made in the form of a wheel with spokes and a low yoke height. The BPMM stator has open slots and a winding with a fractional number of slots per pole Z 12 2
phase: q = -
and
2 p • m 10 • 3 5
■ = — . Pole division:
8 C a b
Fig. 3. BPMM stator winding diagram
The initial data for the procedure for forming a winding in the MotorSolve code are its type and connection circuit, wire diameter, number of parallel branches and the number of turns in the coil of the winding.
After setting the geometric dimensions, selecting active and structural materials, as well as forming the winding, the code allows to visualize the magnetic field in the form of lines of force for the selected position of the motor's rotor (Fig. 4).
Creating a model of BPMM in the MotorSolve
software package. Figure 2 shows the cross section of the active part of the studied BPMM obtained in the MotorSolve software package.
t = m • q = 3 • -2 = ll. Then the step of the winding is 1
and each of the coils covers one tooth. In this case, the stator coil winding has short frontal parts, which improves the temperature regime of the winding and, in addition, reduces the possibility of its breakdown due to the lack of
Fig. 4. BPMM magnetic field lines
Analysis of the distribution of the magnetic field of the motor allows to check the model of BPMM for the absence of errors in its formation. Figure 4 shows that the distribution of the magnetic field corresponds to the physics of the process occurring in electric machines.
After creating the BPMM model, the MotorSolve code calculates the masses of active materials and the total mass of the motor, the resistance of its winding, the moment of inertia of the rotor, as well as a number of other quantities.
Among the calculation results there is a recommendation on the advisability of skewing the stator magnetic core to eliminate cogging torque. For the considered BPMM, a skew of the stator magnetic core is recommended at an angle of 0.2 tooth divisions or at 6 mechanical degrees (30 electrical degrees). It should be noted here that the same skew value was determined on the basis of field calculations in the FEMM code when designing a serial BPMM and was incorporated into the
design documentation for the electric motor. As practice has shown, in serially produced electric motors, the cogging torque is practically absent.
Verification of parameters, design constants and characteristics of BPMM. The results of calculating the parameters and constants of the studied BPMM in the MotorSolve code are presented in Fig. 5.
prototype Design
Ke (peak line-line Back-EMF over speed) (V/krpm] IIS
Kt (derived from Ke) (N-m/A) 1.36
Ld (d-axis inductance] (mH] 5.55
Lq (q-axis inductance] (niH] 8,76
Lllniin (minimum line-line inductance) (niH] 13.1
Lllmax (maximum line-line inductance] (mH) 17.5
Rs (stator phase resistance) (il) 32.7
Rll (stator line-line resistance) (£i] 6,54
Phi_m (magnet d-axis flux linkage] (Wb] 0,123
Table 2
BPMM inductances
Value Calculation Experiment
Lllmin, mH 13,1 13,8
Lllmax, mH 17,5 18,1
with the flux created by the permanent magnets of the rotor. When the winding is connected according to the «Y» circuit, two winding phases connected in series are shifted in the magnetic field of the permanent magnets by an angle of 60 electrical degrees. In this case, the value of the flux linkage of the winding is greater than the flux
linkage of the phase at V? time, i.e. *FMs = -J?Wf =
= 0.213 Wb.
To experimentally determine the flux linkage of the stator winding, the rotor of the serial BPMM is rotated at a constant speed from the racing electric motor (generator mode without connecting the load). Using the ADDS1062CM digital oscilloscope, an oscillogram of the change in the linear EMF of the BPMM stator winding in time e = ft) is recorded (Fig. 6).
Fig. 5. MotorSolve code output after BPMM parameters calculation
It is advisable to begin verifying the BPMM parameters with inductances, the values of which are necessary in the calculations of transients, the electromagnetic time constant, and the reactive component of the electromagnetic torque.
In Fig. 5: Lllmin (minimum line-line inductance) is the stator winding inductance along the longitudinal (d) axis, and Lllmax (maximum line-line inductance) is the stator winding inductance along the transverse (q) axis. The values of these inductances are twice as large as the values of the inductances of the stator winding phase, indicated in Fig. 5 as Ld and Lq respectively
(Lllmin = 2'Ld, Lllmax = 2'Ldq).
Let us compare the calculation results with experimental data. The inductances of the serial BPMM were measured using the DCR-9935 LCR-meter and a mechanical device that allows the motor shaft to be rotated by a predetermined angle. The results of comparing inductances are summarized in Table 2.
EftllM Stop Гя CURSOR
iiT=l 1.20ms + Режим
1 /iT=89.29Hz < РАМНОЙ
CurB = 5,60ms
ВЯЯЭ= -5.60ms Тип
Время
Источник
1+ -1 CH1
1 \ ■:■■/:— — M Cur A
L. J...............
Cur В
(3 = 88.0626Hz О
CHI- 50.0UE M 2,50ms CHI /0,00mU
M Pos 10,00 US
Fig. 6. Experimental oscillogram e = ft)
Scale on the oscillogram: vertical - 50 V/div., horizontal - 2.5 ms/div.
As can be seen from Fig. 6, the linear EMF has a shape close to sinusoidal. Based on the presented experimental oscillogram, we calculate the flux linkage of the BPMM stator winding:
П =
E -AT
^max
118,5-10"
■ = 0,211 Wb,
(1)
Table 2 shows that the results of calculation and experiment have good convergence. In addition, as is known, a feature of BPMM (unlike synchronous motors with electromagnetic excitation) is that the stator winding inductance along the d axis is smaller than the stator winding inductance along the q axis, which is confirmed by the data in Fig. 5 and Table 2.
Consider the correspondence between the calculated and experimental data of the flux linkage of the stator winding of the motor, the value of which is included in the equation for calculating the active (main) component of the electromagnetic torque of BPMM [4]. As a result of calculation in MotorSolve, the value of the flux linkage of the phase of the winding is obtained at its orientation along the d axis (Phim in Fig. 5) >Ff = 0.123 Wb. In this case, there is a maximum linkage of the winding phase
2л 2л
where Emax is the amplitude EMF value; AT is the EMF change period.
Thus, a practical coincidence with the result of calculating the stator winding flux linkage obtained in the MotorSolve software package lFMS = 0.213 Wb is confirmed.
Knowing the flux linkage, it is possible to determine the constant of EMF of the electric motor Ke and the constant of the torque of the electric motor Kt. These constants characterize the electromechanical conversion of energy in electrical machines. They are numerically equal to each other when applying a single system of units.
The constant of EMF Ke is equal to the product of the number of pole pairs p and flux linkage of the stator winding. According to the experiment, the constant Ke when calculating through flux linkage:
Ke = p-TE = 5• 0,211 = 1,055 V-s, (2)
and obtained in the MotorSolve code:
3
Ke = pMS = 5• 0,213 = 1,065 V-s. (3)
On the other hand, according to Fig. 5, the constant
9 55
Ke = 116 V/1000 min-1, or Ke = 116- —— = 1,107 V• s.
e 1000
Thus, the discrepancy between the constant of EMF Ke obtained in two ways based on the calculated data of MotorSolve shown in Fig. 5 is 3.9 %. This difference is most likely due to the calculation error in the MotorSolve of EMF obtained by differentiating the stator winding flux linkage. Unfortunately, the MotorSolve code does not have the ability to evaluate the degree to which the stator winding flux linkage matches the sine waveform.
The torque constant Kt, numerically equal to the constant of EMF Ke, which is calculated through the flux linkage of the winding from the MotorSolve code, is Kt = 1.065 N-m/A.
As for the torque constant Kt = 1.36 N-m/A shown in Fig. 5, it is determined artificially from the constant of EMF Ke by dividing by Ke, and therefore is not a parameter of BPMM. At the same time, the above other parameters obtained by calculation in the MotorSolve program have good agreement with the experiment.
It is of interest to compare the calculated and experimental mechanical characteristics of the studied BPMM, as well as the change in the motor current in time at a given load on the shaft. The mechanical characteristics were experimentally determined on a bench with the AHD-603 hysteresis dynamometer, with which the BPMM was loaded (Fig. 7).
The calculations and experimental determination of the characteristics were carried out at a constant («smooth») voltage in the DC link of the 270 V electronic switch to exclude the influence of the rectification circuit on the characteristics of BPMM. Figure 8 shows the calculated (in MotorSolve) and experimental «natural» mechanical characteristics of the studied BPMM obtained when the motor was running without speed control (filling the PWM signal is 1).
The presented mechanical characteristics show acceptable convergence of the calculation with the experiment. The idle rotation speed of the calculated characteristic is less than the experimental idle rotation speed by 3.3 %. At the same time, the stiffness of the calculated mechanical characteristic is slightly greater than the rigidity of the experimental mechanical characteristic.
Figures 9, 10 show the calculated and experimental oscillograms of the phase current of BPMM during its operation with the opposing load torque on the shaft of 1 N-m.
The calculated characteristic was determined at a rotational speed of 2270 rpm. The average current value was 1.04 A.
Comparison of the oscillograms in Fig. 9, 10 allows to conclude that the calculated and experimental values of the currents correspond to physical representations of transients during switching of the phases of the stator winding, are correlated in shape and amplitude, and also once again confirm the adequacy of the calculation of the BPMM parameters in the MotorSolve software package.
Fig. 7. General view of the experimental bench
n, rpm
0 0,25 0,5 0.75 \ 1,25 1,5 ! .75
M, Nm
Fig. 8. BPMM «natural» mechanical characteristics
Fig. 10. Experimental oscillogram of the phase current at BPMM operation with load of 1 N-m
Experimental oscillogram of the phase current was obtained using an ADS1062CM digital oscilloscope using a current sensor on a resistor with a resistance of 0.1 Q. Scale on the experimental oscillogram: vertical - 0.5 A/div., horizontal - 0.5 ms/div. In the experiment, the BPMM rotation frequency was 2330 rpm, and the average current value was 1.1 A.
Conclusions.
1. Using the MotorSolve software package, the parameters and characteristics of the mass-produced BPMM were calculated. The calculation results have a slight difference from the data obtained experimentally, which confirms the high efficiency of the MotorSolve software package.
2. Unlike well-known codes for calculating the magnetic field, such as FEMM, the MotorSolve software package fully provides the calculation of parameters, transients and characteristics of the electric machine without the use of additional software.
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Received 12.04.2019
V.V. Rymsha1, Doctor of Technical Science, Professor, I.N. Radimov2, Candidate of Technical Science, Associate Professor,
M.V. Gulyy1, Candidate of Technical Science, I.V. Merkulov1 Senior Instructor,
1 Odessa National Polytechnic University,
1, Shevchenko Avenue, Odessa, 65044, Ukraine, phone +380 48 7385855,
e-mail: rimsha61@gmail.com, miv080452@gmail.com
2 Ltd. «Electrical Engineering - NewTechnology», 26/2, Melnitskaya Str., Odessa, 65005, Ukraine,
e-mail: igor.radimov@gmail.com, mv.skbss@gmail.com
How to cite this article:
Rymsha V.V., Radimov I.N., Gulyy M.V., Merkulov I.V. MotorSolve software package: verification of parameters and characteristics of the brushless permanent magnet motor. Electrical engineering & electromechanics, 2019, no.5, pp. 20-24. doi: 10.20998/2074-272X.2019.5.03.
