Axial disc motor experimental analysis based in Steinmetz parameters

Abstract

Nowadays an economical and environment crisis is felt in the world due to the increasing fuel prices and high CO 2 emissions. This crisis is mostly due to present the transportation system, which uses internal combustion engines. The development and integration of electrical motors with improved electro mechanical characteristics, using high temperature superconductors, can provide a sustainable future replacing the conventional internal combustion motors. An axial type disc motor, with high temperature superconductor (HTS) material has been developed and tested in order to obtain an electrical equivalent circuit based on the experimental results. The tested HTS motor exhibits a conventional hysteresis motor type of behavior, even though the hysteretic phenomena don't have the same principle. The proposed approach allows the description of the equivalent electrical circuit as a conventional hysteresis motor. © 2011 IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.