IOSR Journal of Engineering (IOSRJEN)

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Vol. 05, Issue 04 (April. 2015), ||V1|| PP 16-22

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Determination of The Winding Inductances Of A Two-Phase

Machine.
*

I.K. Onwuka, **U. U. Uma

Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike, ifeanyikayonwuka@gmail.com

**
Akanu Ibiam Federal PolytechnicUnwanna, Afikpo. gbogbonna@yahoo.co.uk

Abstract: - An accurate method for determining the winding inductances of a 2-phase Stator winding is herein
presented. A 2-phase stator winding is considered. The process begins with understanding the winding
configuration, obtaining the winding function from that, and considering the air-gap function. Comparison is
made for the inductances of the same stator windings considering saliency and non-saliency. It is observed that
in the case of salient pole rotors, the inductances of the stator winding depends on the rotor position. On the
other hand, the inductances of the stator winding in the case of non-saliency is constant. Non-linear effects on
the magnetizing inductances were not considered.
Keywords: Magnetizing Inductance, Winding function, Harmonics, Air-gap function.

I.

INTRODUCTION

Electric machines have assumed an enviable place in the drive of development and civilization, world
over. More than 95% of world electricity are produced from electric machines. Again, electric machines are the
work horse of industries, and find extensive applications in several domestic, transport, health, and agricultural
facilities. One property of immense importance to the electric machine is the winding inductances. Often times
though, the stator windings develop fault, maybe due to high temperature, power system transients, or some
other factors [1]. Because these machines are expensive apparatus, it is often the practice to re-coil the windings
and restore the machine to use. Moreover, for the purpose of research, or to achieve some other machine
performance, it may be required to replace the windings of a stator to achieve certain design objectives. Hence,
it is important that at such times, the engineer or the designer must be able to determine the new inductances of
the machine with respect to the new stator winding.
Whether for design or maintenance purposes, determination of winding inductances is of immense
importance, as this affects next to the entire behavior of the machine, hence, its accurate computation is of huge
importance.While the major interest in inductance determination would be to determine the self and mutual
inductances of the windings involved, a unique determination of the inductances associated with the leakage
flux can only be calculated or approximated from design considerations [2]. Hence, the leakage inductance is
not dealt with in this work. However, it is the magnetizing inductances that is the interest of this work.

II.

WINDING DESCRIPTION

A double-layer, integral-slot winding with chorded coils will be used. Taking 12 slots per pole, the stator
number of slots is 24. Each slot holds 18 conductors, which could be of either or both phases. Windings were
distributed as near sinusoidal as possible. References here include [2, 3, 4]. Furthermore, the windings of both
phases are identical but displaced from each other by an angle of 90 o. The winding clock diagram appears in
figure 1. The following can easily be observed from the winding clock diagram:
Number of slots = 24; Slot angular pitch = 15 o; Phase belt = 10 slots; Phase spread = 150o; phase shift = 90o;
Number of poles =2;
Pole-pitch = 12 slots per pole.

III.

ASSUMPTION

Each winding section is aligned axially within the air gap. This is to say that the wire is neither slanted in the
circumferential direction nor tilted in the radial direction as it passes through the air gap. Also, the MMF in the
iron is neglected.

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7

10

A5

A4
B3

B1

B1

B2

A5+
B2 +

A3

A4+
B3
+

B4
11

12

13

14

A3

B4 +

+
2

A2
B5

B5 +

A2+
1

A1

A1+

A1

A1+
B5

B5
A2

24

A2+
23

B4
A3
15

B4 A
3

A4

22

B2

16

B3

B3
A5

B2 +

B1

17

B1

A4+

A5+

21

20
18

19

Figure 1: Winding Clock Diagram

IV.

WINDING FUNCTION

The Winding function method of analysis of the Stator winding is presented here. This is because of the wellknown fact that the Winding Function is the basis of calculating machine inductances [5]. Again, the power
quality of the machine is a function of the shape of the air-gap MMF due to stator windings. Equation (1)
represents the relationship between the air gap MMF, Fs, the winding function, Ns(s), and the stator current, is.
Subscript s represents stator quantity.
=
(1)
Where s is an angular displacement along the stator inner circumference. The winding function (WF)
methodology developed in [6] was employed in this analysis. The turns function, n(s) and the average turns
function, nave are given by:
= .
(2)
1 2
=

(3)
2 0
The winding function is then given by:
=
(4)
Figure 2 and 3 shows the actual winding function, in stair-case form.
60

Winding Function, Na (phi-s)

40

20

-20

-40

-60

2
3
4
5
6
Stator circumferential position, phi-s in radian unit

Figure 2: Actual Winding function of the a-phase winding

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60

Winding Function, Nb (phi-s)

40

20

-20

-40

-60

2
3
4
5
6
Stator circumferential position, phi-s in radian unit

Figure 3:Actual Winding Function of the b-phase winding

V.
HARMONICS ANALYSIS
The method of Fourier series [7] was applied to obtain the various harmonics present in the winding functions
expressed in Figures 2 and 3. The Fourier series of the winding function was performed and various plots
obtained using the MATLAB tool [8]. The fundamental components of the winding functions for the two stator
windings are:
=
(5)
=
(6)
Where, is the phase shift, and subscript s refers to stator variables.
Figures 4 and 5 give a picture of the harmonic contents in the winding function, up to the 50 th non-zero
harmonic (odd harmonics only). This is a reflection of the distortion that will be present in the stator voltage and
current waveform. It is put in better perspective by figure 6.
60

a-phase harmonic magnitude

50

40

30

20

10

10

20
30
40
a-phasesampled harmonics

50

60

Figure 4:Harmonics of the a-phase winding function

60

b-phase harmonic magnitude

50

40

30

20

10

10

20
30
40
b-phase sampled harmonics

50

60

Figure 5:Harmonics of the b-phase winding function

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Figure 6 shows a close approximation of the fundamental component of the Winding Function to the resultant
Winding Function. Thus, the value of the fundamental component of the Winding Function can be used for
inductance calculations, with a little error tolerance. These values are given for the two phases as:
= 55.8254 0.1309
(7)
= 55.82541.4399
(8)
60

Resultant winding function

funamental component

Winding Function, Na (phi-s)

40

20
a-phase
0

-20

-40
b-phase
-60

2
3
4
5
6
Stator circumferential position, phi-s in radian unit

Figure 6:Comparison between the resultant winding function and the fundamental component of the function.
Hence, the effective number of stator turns will be taken as N s = 55.8254. It is clear that the influence of winding
design features which have not been considered in the analysis are accounted for in N s.
Air-gap Function
The air gap function requires definition. It will be helpful to describe the air gap of the machine over an angular
displacement of 2, as shown in Figure 7a,
where g1= the minimum air gap length
g2= the maximum air gap length
= the pole arc/pole pitch ratio
The inverse air-gap function is also shown in figure 7b. See Appendix A for parameter values. For the purpose
of inductance computation, it is beneficial to obtain the inverse air gap function, rather than the air gap function
itself. The Fourier series approach can be employed to determine the inverse air-gap function more accurately.

Figure 7a: Approximate Air-Gap function

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Figure 7b: Approximate inverse Air Gap Function

Another
1

1 =

accurate
+

approach

to

determine

the

inverse

air-gap

function

is

as

follows:

2 =

Then =

(9)
1

1
2

(10)
1

(11)

1 + 2 2( )

Therefore
1 = 1 + 2 2( )
(12)
Where r describes the rotor position. Obviously, both figure 7 and equations (9) through (12) accounted for
machine saliency. However, if a round rotor is considered, then:
g1 = g2
(13)
Substituting the parameter values of Appendix A into equations (9) through (12), the inverse air gap function
will be obtained as follows:
With saliency:

g 1 s 1373 .3 1977 .8 cos 2 s r

(14)

Without Saliency:

g 1 s 3333 .3333
VI.

(15)

MAGNETIZING INDUCTANCE (NON-LINEAR EFFECTS NEGLECTED)

The determination of self-inductance requires the flux linking a winding due to its own current to be computed.
In the case of mutual inductance, the flux linking one winding due to current flowing in another winding is
required [2].Generally, the differential flux passing through a differential volume of cross-sectional area
and length g is given by [6],

= = 0
(16)

Integrating (16), bearing in mind that F is a function of :

2
= 0 0

(17)

Where P = Permeance,
r = inner stator radius,l = axial length of the air gap, and 0=Permittivity of free
space.
It is common knowledge that flux linkage is expressed as:
= = iL
(18)
Where L is inductance and I is current.
Equation (17) is the flux linking one turn of an Ns turn winding. If it is recalled that Ns is now a function of ,
and the inverse of the air-gap length a function of ( r), then for a winding with Ns( ) effective number of
turns, the flux linkage of winding A due to current in winding B will be given as:
2
= 0 0 1
(19)
If equation (1) and (18) are kept in mind, then (19) can be solved for the mutual inductance between windings A
and B:
2
= 0 0 1
(20)

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From equations (18) through (20), it is clear that reciprocity holds since the order of the two windings may be
interchanged. Hence,
=
(21)
The above equations are also valid for cases where windings A and B are one and the same. Hence the
magnetizing inductances of windings A and B, respectively, are given by:
2 2
= 0 0
1
(22)
2

2
= 0 0
1
(23)
With saliency:
Substituting equations (5), (6) (neglecting ), and (12) into equations (20), (22), and (23), and solving the same,
the following results will be obtained:
2
= 0
1 +
2
= 0
1 +
2

2
2
2
2

(24)

(25)

= 0 2
2
Without Saliency:
Considering equations (9) and (10) when equation (13) is true, it will be observed that
1
1 =

(26)

2 = 0
Substituting equations (27) and (28) into equations (24), (25), and (26) results to:
LAB = 0

(28)

LAA =
LBB =

0 rl

g
0 rl
g

(27)

(27)

(28)

(29)

Using the parameter values of Appendix A, Table 1 and figure 8 were obtained.
The Q- and D-axes Magnetizing Inductances
Often times in the modeling and simulation of electric machines, it is convenient to eliminate all time-varying
inductances by a change of variables from the stationary machine variables to the q-d variables of a convenient
reference frame. If the rotor reference frame is assumed, then the q-d magnetizing inductances can be estimated
as follows:
The transformation matrix to be used is:

=
(30)

Let =
(31)

Then = 1
(32)
=
(33)
Equation (32) yields equation (33), where Lmq and Lmd are respectively the q- and d-axes inductances required,
r is an angular displacement of the rotor.
Discussion and Conclusion
The leakage inductances were not considered in this work. Nevertheless, the self-inductances of the windings
will be the sum of their leakage inductances and their magnetizing inductances. Of course, non-linear effects on
the inductances are not considered at this stage.
Table 1: The magnetizing inductances
Magnetizing inductance
With Saliency
Without Saliency
LAA
0.1846
0.0761 0.0548 cos 2
r

LBB

0.0761 0.0548 cos 2 r

0.1846

LAB

0.0548 sin 2 r
0.0548 sin 2 r

LBA

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Stator and Air-gap Dimensions
r = 0.06m
l = 0.075m
g1 = 0.0003m
g2 = 50g1
o = 4e-7

0.14
0.12

Magnetizing Inductance

0.1
0.08
0.06
0.04
0.02
0
-0.02
LAA
LBB
LAB

-0.04
-0.06

2
3
4
5
Rotor angular displacement

Figure 8: The variation of Stator inductances with rotor angular positionin the case of saliency.
It will be observed that the magnetizing inductances are a function of the rotor position in the case of
salient pole machines, while they are constants in the case of round rotor machines. Moreover, considering that
the windings are displaced in space 90o from each other, it is clear that their mutual inductance will be zero in
the case of round rotor machines, as also was obtained. However, the saliency of the rotor, in the case of salient
pole rotors, leads to some flux linkage between the windings, resulting to a non-zero mutual inductance.
The process applied in this work can be applied as well to unbalanced windings and to 3-phase windings to
obtain accurate values of the magnetizing inductances of any stator winding.

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