Switched Reluctance Motor Drives 1st Edition

Electric motors are the largest consumer of electric power and they play a vital role in the expanding market for electrification. Due to their uncomplicated construction, modified reluctance motors (MRMs) are exceedingly appealing for the industry to respond to the increasing demand for high-efficiency, high-performance, and low-cost electric motors with a more secure supply chain. Modified Reluctance Motor Drives: Basics to Utilizations is a comprehensive textbook encompassing the specifics of modified reluctance motor drives. It provides an outline of utilizing electric motors in the industrial, residential, commercial, and transportation sectors. It explains the principle behind the functioning of modified reluctance motors and offers models to analyze them. The book extensively focuses on the essentials and utilizations of MRM layout and covers various layout particulars, such as materials, mechanical structure, and controls. Sound and vibration is the most prominent issue in modified reluctance motors, but this can be reduced significantly through a multidisciplinary approach. These methodologies are elucidated in two chapters of the book. The first chapter delves into the fundamentals of sound and vibration, equipping readers with the necessary tools to scrutinize the problems and expounds on the surface waves, spring-mass models, forcing harmonics, and mode shapes that are employed in modeling and scrutinizing sound and vibration. The second chapter applies these fundamentals to modified reluctance motors and offers examples for identifying the sources of any sound in modified reluctance motors. In the closing chapter, two MRM layouts are presented and suggested as replacements for permanent magnet machines in a residential HVAC application and a hybrid-electric propulsion application. It also displays a high-power and compact converter layout for MRM drives. Features: Comprehensive coverage of modified reluctance motor drives from fundamental principles to layout, functioning, and usages A distinct chapter on electric motor usage in industrial, residential, commercial, and transportation applications to address the advantages of modified reluctance machines Two chapters address sound and vibration in detail Numerous illustrations and practical examples on the layout, modeling, and analysis of modified reluctance motor drives Instances of modified reluctance motor and drive layout