Special and Advanced Machines

Tutorial

By
Dr. Krishna Roy
Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering Department
NITR
Example1: A BLDC motor has a stall torque of 1.2 Nm with a current of 6
A. Find its no load speed when fed from a 30 V DC supply. During an
overload, the magnetic loss is 12%. Find the speed if the load torque is 0.5
Nm. Neglect friction and windage losses. The armature resistance is 1 Ω.

Given, Tstg  1.2 Nm I stg  6 A V  30 V loss  12% NL

TL  0.5 Nm Ra  1 
Now, at the time of stalling assuming constant flux, stalling torque
Tstg  kt I stg
Tstg 1.2
Or, kt    0.2
I stg 6
 kt  k m  0.2
V 30
No load speed, 0   rad/s  150 rad/s
km 0.2
150  60
N0  rpm  1433 rpm
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Example1: A BLDC motor has a stall torque of 1.2 Nm with a current of 6
A. Find its no load speed when fed from a 30 V DC supply. During an
overload, the magnetic loss is 12%. Find the speed if the load torque is 0.5
Nm. Neglect friction and windage losses. The armature resistance is 1 Ω.

Given, Tstg  1.2 Nm I stg  6 A V  30 V loss  12% NL

TL  0.5 Nm Ra  1 
Full load flux,
 
100  12    0.88
L 100 NL NL

TL L I L IL
   0.88 
Tstg  NL I stg 6
 I L  2.84 A
Back emf, Eb   30  2.84  1 V  27.16 V
Eb N LL 27.16 27.16
Therefore,    NL   1433 rpm
V N 0 NL 30 30  0.88
 1475 rpm 3
Example2: A three phase 4-pole BLDC motor has 36 slots. Armature
winding is made o three coils per phase per pole. Each coil has 20 turns. The
coil is chorded by 2 slots. Flux per pole is 1.8 mWb. Find the no load back
emf at 3000 rpm.

Given, m  3 P4 s  36 T  20/coil   1.8 mWb N  3000 rpm

Now, number of turns per phase,

Tph  3  4  20  240
36
Number of slots per pole  9
4

180
Slot angle,    20
9
Chording angle,   2  20  40

Number of slots per pole per phase, n 

36
3
43

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Example2: A three phase 4-pole BLDC motor has 36 slots. Armature
winding is made o three coils per phase per pole. Each coil has 20 turns. The
coil is chorded by 2 slots. Flux per pole is 1.8 mWb. Find the no load back
emf at 3000 rpm.

Given, m  3 P4 s  36 T  20/coil   1.8 mWb N  3000 rpm


Therefore, k p1  cos  cos 20  0.9397
2
n
sin 
2 sin 30
kd 1    0.9598
 3sin10 
n sin
2
PN 4  3000
f   Hz  100 Hz
120 120
Back emf per phase, Eb  4.44 fk d 1k p1T ph
 4.44  1.8  103  100  0.9397  0.9598  240 V
 173 V
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