Dimensioning Optimization of the Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator for Direct Drive Wind Turbines

Jesús Antonio Enríquez Santiago, Orlando Lastres Danguillecourt, Guillermo Ibáñez Duharte, Jorge Evaristo Conde Díaz, Antonio Verde Añorve, Quetzalcoatl Hernandez Escobedo, Joel Pantoja Enríquez, Laura Verea, Geovanni Hernández Galvez, Rafael Dorrego Portela and Alberto-Jesus Perea-Moreno
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Jesús Antonio Enríquez Santiago: Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Libramiento Norte Poniente 1150, Lajas Maciel, Tuxtla Gutiérrez 29035, Mexico
Orlando Lastres Danguillecourt: Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Libramiento Norte Poniente 1150, Lajas Maciel, Tuxtla Gutiérrez 29035, Mexico
Guillermo Ibáñez Duharte: Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Libramiento Norte Poniente 1150, Lajas Maciel, Tuxtla Gutiérrez 29035, Mexico
Jorge Evaristo Conde Díaz: Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Libramiento Norte Poniente 1150, Lajas Maciel, Tuxtla Gutiérrez 29035, Mexico
Antonio Verde Añorve: Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Libramiento Norte Poniente 1150, Lajas Maciel, Tuxtla Gutiérrez 29035, Mexico
Quetzalcoatl Hernandez Escobedo: Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Juriquilla, Queretaro 76230, Mexico
Joel Pantoja Enríquez: Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Libramiento Norte Poniente 1150, Lajas Maciel, Tuxtla Gutiérrez 29035, Mexico
Laura Verea: Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas, Libramiento Norte Poniente 1150, Lajas Maciel, Tuxtla Gutiérrez 29035, Mexico
Geovanni Hernández Galvez: Universidad Popular de la Chontalpa, Carretera, Cárdenas, Huimanguillo km. 2.0. Cárdenas, Heroica Cárdenas 86556, Mexico
Rafael Dorrego Portela: Universidad del Istmo Campus Tehuantepec, Oaxaca 70760, Mexico
Alberto-Jesus Perea-Moreno: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Radiología y Medicina Física, Universidad de Córdoba, Campus de Rabanales, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 21, 1-13

Abstract: In the present work, a methodology that allows optimizing the permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) design by establishing limit values of magnet radius and length that maximize efficiency for the nominal parameters of the wind turbine is developed. The methodology consists of two fundamental models. One model calculates the generator parameters from the radius of the magnet base, and the other optimization model determines two optimum generators according to the optimization criteria of maximum efficiency and maximum efficiency with minimum weight starting from the axial length and the radius of the magnet base. For the optimization, the numerical method of the golden section was used. The model was validated from a 10 kW PMSG and the results of two optimum generators are presented according to the optimization criteria. In addition, when the obtained results are compared with the reference electric generator, an increase in efficiency of 1.15% and 0.81% and a reduction in weight of 30.79% and 39.15% of the optimized generators are obtained for maximum efficiency and minimum weight, respectively. Intermediate options between the maximum efficiency generator and the minimum weight generator allows for the selection of the optimum dimensioning for the electric generator as a function of the parameters from the wind turbine design.

Keywords: wind turbines; PM generators; optimization of electric generators; design of electric generators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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