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Title: Optimal Design of a Fully Superconducting Machine for 10- MW Offshore Wind Turbines
{Fully superconducting (SC)machines hold immense promise for high-power-density and higher efficiency machine solutions for offshore wind turbine applications. In this paper, a 10MW air-core fully SC machine is designed for offshore wind turbine applications. This machine design is considered with inside armature coils and outside rotating field coils. In this topology, shield iron can be eliminated or reduced by replacing it with shield coils which contain the magnetic flux inside the machine. This machine is attractive for off-shore wind turbine application due to its high-power density and high efficiency compared to a conventional shield iron design. However, due to the introduction of additional shield coils, this topology uses relatively more amount of SC material than a conventional shield iron design. Therefore, a tradeoff between the shield coils and the shield iron is explored in this paper. In addition, machine designs with different pole-counts are investigated to identify the optimal pole-count design for a low-speed application. A detailed ac loss calculation is evaluated for the machine and required cryocooler power is evaluated to obtain the machine efficiency.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1807823
PAR ID:
10176759
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
2019 IEEE International Electric Machines Drives Conference (IEMDC)
Page Range / eLocation ID:
1903 to 1909
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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