A research on iron loss of IPMSM with a fractional number of slot per pole

In this paper, we investigated rotor iron loss of interior permanent magnet synchronous machine (IPMSM), which has distributed armature windings. In order to study the iron loss with the effect of slot-pole combination, two machines for high-speed operation such as electric vehicle were designed. One is fractional slot winding and the other is conventional one. In the analysis, we developed a new iron loss model of electrical machines for high-speed operation. The calculated iron loss was compared with the experimental data. It was clarified that the proposed method can estimate iron loss effectively at high-speed operation. Based on this newly proposed method, we analyzed iron loss of the two machines according to their driving conditions. From the analysis results, it was shown that rotor iron loss of machine employing fractional slot-winding is definitely large at load condition. In addition, it is interesting that the ratio (rotor iron loss/stator iron loss) becomes larger as the speed of the machines increase if the number of slot per pole is fractional.