Conmotator: Advanced, Integrated Machines for Efficient Manufacture & Operation

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Title
Conmotator: Advanced, Integrated Machines for Efficient Manufacture & Operation

CoPED ID
141121bf-988b-459f-a4fc-ed84d77a6f65

Status
Closed


Value
£390,212

Start Date
Nov. 1, 2020

End Date
July 30, 2021

Description

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**Vision: Advancing PEMD through integrating large electric machines and convertors.**

Today almost all motor applications take advantage of variable speed for efficiency, deploying a power electronic convertor between machine and grid to achieve this. Especially for high power applications, motors and convertors have become functionally inseparable, but industry continues to make them physically two discrete components, cabled together.

**Innovation: integration of power electronics and electrical machines into a single housing to form an integrated electrical drive brings several benefits** such as, increased power density, reduced overall footprint, cabling, cooling, overall system layout flexibility and cost. Because of these benefits, integrated drives are gaining market share in small drives of ratings below 1 MW, but there are some integration and manufacturing challenges to commercially exploit these benefits and achieve this fusion at multi-megawatt scale.

**Focus**: Often in megawatt-scale power electronics and electrical machines, the design and manufacturing of the electronics and electrical machines are undertaken by separate teams. To fully realise the benefits of their fusion, an integrated design and manufacturing team with skill sets ranging from power electronics to electrical machines and advanced manufacturing is paramount. This collaborative project will draw expertise from industrial disciplines and academia to unlock the key design-for-manufacture, integration and manufacturing aspects to allow a multi-megawatt machine with integrated power electronics at scale to be brought closer to market, by derisking key areas.

The 'Conmotator' project (combined convertor-motor to electronic commutator) project investigates and addresses the key technological, integration and manufacturing challenges to allow the commercial exploitation of an integrated electrical machine where the power electronics and motor are contained within a single physical unit at the multi-MW level.

The project develops and tests the interfaces that bridge between existing Motor and Drive elements and investigates manufacturing/supply chain aspects related to megawatt scale integrated electrical machines to pave the way for full commercial exploitation, targeting the benefits at a worldwide market, placing UK industry as world class leader in this field.

Taiye Malomo PM_PER

Subjects by relevance
  1. Electric machines
  2. Power electronics
  3. Electric motors
  4. Transformers (electrical devices)
  5. Electronics
  6. Planning and design
  7. Electrical engineering
  8. Motors and engines
  9. Electronics industry
  10. Electricity market
  11. Direct current
  12. Production
  13. Electric apparatus
  14. Electric drives
  15. Industry
  16. Electricity

Extracted key phrases
  1. Power electronic convertor
  2. Scale power electronic
  3. Integrated power electronic
  4. Electrical machine
  5. Efficient Manufacture
  6. Large electric machine
  7. Megawatt machine
  8. Integrated Machines
  9. High power application
  10. Conmotator
  11. Power density
  12. Electrical drive
  13. Electronic commutator
  14. Megawatt scale
  15. Motor application

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