Hybrid Adopted Materials in Permanent Magnet-Assisted Synchronous Reluctance Motor With Rotating Losses Computation

This paper presents an optimized design in the permanent magnet-assisted synchronous reluctance motor (PMa-SynRM) rotor structure design with hybrid adopted materials for enhancing the motor characteristics and operation. Two types of permanent magnet (PM) materials are embraced in the PMa-SynRM rotor of rare-earth and ferrite PMs. The optimized design for the PMa-SynRM rotor structure considers the motor magnetic equivalent circuit for reducing the reluctance of the hybrid PMs to improve the motor performance. Moreover, the irreversible demagnetization of the ferrite PM which occurs due to the reversing of the magnetic field of the rare-earth PM is presented. The analytical rotating losses computation with the hybrid adopted materials at the design process is introduced. The rotating losses of the PMa-SynRM are investigated as core, magnet, proximity, ohmic, and friction losses. The core loss in the PMa-SynRM occurs due to the altering of the flux densities in numerous fragments of the iron structures. The loss measurements can be accomplished by measuring the electric parameters of the PMa-SynRM at a defined operating point. The magnetic modeling of the improved 6 KW PMa-SynRM manufactured prototype structure is derived and rotational losses are computed, validated, and compared with the finite element analysis (FEA).