Comparative Research of a Wound-Field Doubly Salient Generator With Different Rectifiers

The wound-field doubly salient generator (WFDSG) is receiving consideration for the field of industrial and aerospace/aviation, since it has the advantages of high robustness with simple structure and adjustable output voltage. In this paper, upon the analysis of generator structures, the features of three rectifiers that are suitable for WFDSG are analyzed in detail. The comparative research of WFDSG with hybrid half-bridge rectifier (HHBR), full-bridge rectifier (FBR), and half-bridge rectifier is presented by the finite-element method (FEM). Then, the load and no-load characteristics of WFDSG under the three rectifiers mentioned above are researched comparatively. The commutation overlap angles and total commutation output voltage losses of three rectifiers are deduced. The experiments of a 12/8-pole single armature-winding WFDSG (SAW-WFDSG) with an FBR and a 12/8-pole dual-armature-winding WFDSG (DAW-WFDSG) with HHBR prototypes have been performed. The FEM and experiment results shows that the SAW-WFDSG with FBR and the DAW-WFDSG with HHBR both have a good application prospect.