Rough Design of a Double-Stator Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Generator for a Rim-Driven Marine Current Turbine

Sofiane Djebarri (1) , Jean Frédéric Charpentier (1) , Franck Scuiller (1) , Mohamed Benbouzid (2) , Sylvain Guemard (3)

1 IRENAV - Institut de Recherche de l'Ecole Navale
2 LBMS - Laboratoire brestois de mécanique et des systèmes
3 ECA-EN

This paper deals with the rough design of a Double-Stator Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Machine (DSAFPM) for a rim-driven Marine Current Turbine (MCT). The DSAFPM machine will be compared to a previously developed and realized Radial Flux Permanent Magnet Machine (RFPM); given the same rim-driven MCT specifications. For that purpose, a first-order electromagnetic design model and a thermal one are developed and used to compare active part mass, cost, and thermal behavior of the two machines. The obtained results show that such a structure of poly-air gap axial flux machine can be more interesting in terms of compactness and thermal behavior for rim-driven marine current turbines.

Mots clés: Marine current turbine; rim-driven concept; permanent magnet machine; axial flux machine; electromagnetic model; thermal model

Domaines: Energie électrique

Sofiane Djebarri, Jean Frédéric Charpentier, Franck Scuiller, Mohamed Benbouzid, Sylvain Guemard. Rough Design of a Double-Stator Axial Flux Permanent Magnet Generator for a Rim-Driven Marine Current Turbine. IEEE ISIE 2012, May 2012, Hangzhou, China. pp.1450-1455. ⟨hal-00717470⟩