Design Study of a Three-Phase Brushless Exciter for Aircraft Starter/Generator

Rafal Wrobel; Antonio Griffo; Adrian Mlot; Jason Yon; Phil Mellor; Jim Turner; Bryan Rolfe; Rakhee Stevenson; Ray Collins

doi:10.1109/ECCE.2011.6064313

Design Study of a Three-Phase Brushless Exciter for Aircraft Starter/Generator

Rafal Wrobel^*, Antonio Griffo, Adrian Mlot, Jason Yon, Phil Mellor, Jim Turner, Bryan Rolfe, Rakhee Stevenson, Ray Collins

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This paper presents a design study of a 3-phase AC main exciter (ME) for an aircraft starter-generator. A computationally efficient methodology for optimizing the design of the ME is presented. The optimisation is carried out using coupled two-dimensional (2D) magnetostatic finite element solver and particle swarm optimisation procedure (PSO). The ME design is then analysed using 3D FE to account for the end-winding effects, and the results are fed into a lumped-parameter circuit model of the ME. The circuit model allows for the operating modes of the ME being analysed in a computationally efficient manner also accounting for non-linearities. The theoretical findings are experimentally validated on a prototype generator.

Translated title of the contribution	Design Study of a Three-Phase Exciter for Aircraft Starter/Generator
Original language	English
Title of host publication	2011 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition
Place of Publication	NEW YORK
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	3998-4004
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4577-0541-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2011.6064313
Publication status	Published - 17 Sep 2011
Event	IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) - Phoenix, Argentina Duration: 17 Sep 2011 → 22 Sep 2011

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Conference	IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
Country/Territory	Argentina
City	Phoenix
Period	17/09/11 → 22/09/11

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aircraft starter-generator
main exciter
design optimisation

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Wrobel, R, Griffo, A, Mlot, A, Yon, J, Mellor, P, Turner, J, Rolfe, B, Stevenson, R & Collins, R 2011, Design Study of a Three-Phase Brushless Exciter for Aircraft Starter/Generator. in 2011 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition. IEEE Computer Society, NEW YORK, pp. 3998-4004, IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Phoenix, Argentina, 17/09/11. https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2011.6064313

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