An Improved Anisotropic Vector Preisach Model for Nonoriented Electrical Steel Sheet Based on Iron Loss Separation Theory

Abstract

An improved anisotropic vector Preisach model is proposed in this paper to describe the hysteresis properties of nonoriented (NO) electrical steel sheet (ESS) under 50 Hz rotating magnetic fields. The proposed model consists of three components, static hysteresis component, eddy current component, and excess component, which is based on the iron loss separation theory. The static hysteresis component is constructed by the static vector Preisach model. The proposed model is identified by the measured hysteresis properties under 1 Hz and 50 Hz magnetic fields. Finally, the experimental results prove the effectiveness of the proposed anisotropic vector hysteresis model.

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1. Introduction

With the rapid development of the electrical motor drive technology, different types of electrical motors are designed to meet various needs. And, more and more attention has been paid to the performance and efficiency of the motor. However, to improve the performance and the efficiency of the electrical motor in the simulation design stage, accurate magnetic field distribution and iron loss analysis are extremely significant. Until now, finite element analyses (FEA) is one of the most popular and accuracy numerical methods to calculate the magnetic field distribution and the iron loss of electrical motor. However, accuracy and speed describe the hysteresis properties between magnetic field strength (H) and magnetic flux density (B) is quite essential to calculation accuracy and speed of FEA.

On the one hand, the magnet filed in the teeth of the motor is alternating field, and the magnet filed in the yoke is rotating filed. According to the experimental experience, the hysteresis properties under rotating field are quite different from that under alternating fields. However, until now, most of the commercial FEA software only can consider the alternating fields. Thus, the calculation accuracy is not satisfied, and it cannot be used for motor design and optimization directly. In additional, the nonoriented (NO) electric steel sheet (ESS) also presents anisotropic properties under both alternating and rotating magnetic fields in practice. Therefore, an anisotropic vector hysteresis model should be developed to describe the vector hysteresis property of ESS and combined with FEA to analyse the performance and efficiency of the motor.

Until now, to describe the vector hysteresis property of ESS and improve the accuracy of FEA, many versions of hysteresis models have been developed, such as vector Preisach model, vector Jiles–Atherton (JA) model, vector E & S model, and vector Play models [1–4]. The Preisach model has been widely concerned by many researchers because of its perfect modelling results, and the Preisach model is constructed from the physical point of view [5]. The classical Preisach model is proposed by Preisach firstly [6], and it is applied to describe the hysteresis property by many researchers [5, 7–11]. The original vector version of the Preisach model is developed by using the superposition of the classical scalar Preisach models along different azimuthal direction [12–14]. And, because the anisotropic properties cannot consider in the original vector Preisach model, it is an isotropic model. To apply the vector Preisach model to FEA and analysis the iron loss, a few frequencies dependent vector Preisach models have been developed based on the iron loss separation theory [15–17]. However, the above models are limited pay attention to the anisotropic property. Therefore, some versions of the vector Preisach model which can consider the anisotropic properties have been proposed for NO ESS. However, the model results only can present weakly anisotropic property, and they do not match the experimentally measured data well.

In this paper, an improved anisotropic vector Preisach model is proposed to describe hysteresis behaviour of NO ESS, which has low anisotropic property. The proposed model consists of three components, static hysteresis component, eddy current component, and excess component, which is based on the iron loss separation. The static hysteresis component is developed by the vector Preisach model which is identified by using the experimental data from static magnetic field. The average static scalar property is measured from the ring-type core under 1 Hz magnetic field. And, the parameter in the proposed model is identified by using the purely rotating magnetic fields under 50 Hz magnetic fields whose magnitude is limited to 1.6 T. The identification and validation of the model are performed by using measurement data of the NO ESS, 35PN440, which is obtained from a two-dimensional (2D) single sheet tester (SST).

2. Static Preisach Hysteresis Model

2.1. Measurement System for the Scalar Preisach Model

The vector static Preisach model consisted of the scalar static Preisach model. Therefore, the scalar version should be constructed firstly. To construct the scalar Preisach model, the static scalar hysteresis behaviour should be measured. However, the pure static hysteresis behaviour of ESS without any eddy current and excess effects is quite difficult to measure. Therefore, in this paper, the hysteresis behaviour under 1 Hz exciting current is considered as the static hysteresis behaviour, and the corresponding measurement system is developed shown in Figure 1. In Figure 1, the exciting coil and the B-coil are wound around the ring-type core. The exciting coil is used to generate the magnetic fields, and the H-waveform can be obtained from the current of the exciting coil. And, there are 40 and 600 turns of the exciting coil for lower and higher H value measurement, respectively. The B-coil of 20 turns is used to measure the B-waveform. The ring-type core is the lamination core, which is made up of the toroidal NO ESS,35PN440, and it is used to obtain the average scalar B-H property of the specimen [18]. The inner and outer diameters of the toroidal ESS are 40 mm and 50 mm, respectively. The hysteresis minor loops with different maximum value of B under 1 Hz alternating magnetic fields can be measured by this experimental device, and the measured results can be used to identify the static Preisach model.

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The double integral operation in (1) will consume a lot of time when the model is applied to FEM. To improve the identification accuracy and the calculation efficiency of the Preisach model, an Everett function is defined as follows:$$\begin{array}{}\text{(3)}& E{\alpha }_0,{\beta }_0={\displaystyle {\iint }_{{\alpha }_0<B_m,{\beta }_0>-B_m}\mu \alpha ,\beta \text{d}\alpha \text{d}\beta },\end{array}$$where (α₀, β₀) is the coordinate of a point within the integral zone and B_m is the maximum value of B.

Therefore, equation (1) can be instead by addition and subtraction of the Everett function as follows:$$\begin{array}{}\text{(4)}& Ht=\begin{array}{cc}\text{sign}{B}_2-B_1\cdot E{B}_2,-B_2+2{\displaystyle \sum _{k=3}^N\begin{array}{cc}E{B}_k,B_{k-1}& B_k-B_{k-1}>0,\\ -E{B}_{k-1},B_k& B_k-B_{k-1}<0,\end{array}}\hfill & k>1,\hfill \\ 0,\hfill & k=1,\hfill \end{array}\end{array}$$where B_k are the extreme points of the input B-waveform, and they are stored in the extreme point memory as shown in Figure 3 [7].

In the traditional identification method, the distribution function μ or the Everett function should be identified by using the first-order reverse curve (FORC) [7]. However, the FORC is quite difficult to measure, and the accuracy of the measurement results is not satisfied. And, negative values will appear in the distribution function because of the measurement errors.

In this paper, the Everett function is defined from experimentally measured symmetric minor B-H loops as follows:$$\begin{array}{}\text{(5)}& E\alpha ,\beta =\begin{array}{cc}{h}^{-}\alpha ,\alpha -h^{-}\alpha ,\beta ,& \alpha +\beta \ge 0,\\ h^{+}\beta ,\alpha -h^{+}\beta ,\beta ,& \alpha +\beta \le 0,\end{array}\end{array}$$where h⁺(B_a, B) and h⁻(B_a, B) are, respectively, the ascending and descending branches of the symmetric B-H loop with maximum amplitude B_a.

In this paper, totally 16 symmetric minor B-H loops are measured from the measurement system in Figure 1, and the range of B_a is from 0.1 T to 1.6 T; the step is 0.1 T. And, then the Everett function is identified by the measurement data and (5). The result of the Everett function which is identified by (5) is shown in Figure 4(a), and Figure 4(b) shows the comparison results between the modelling and measurement results under alternating 1 Hz magnet fields with different values of B_a. From the results, the modelling results can match well with the measured ones.

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The H locus predicted by the proposed model for alternating magnetic fields of B_m = 1.6 T along rolling and transverse direction is shown in Figure 9 together with that from measured data. From the figure, the proposed model also can simulate the hysteresis properties for unidirectional scalar hysteresis properties. And, the deviation d_H between the measured and modelling results along rolling and transverse direction is 3.47% and 4.51%, respectively. And, the deviation, d_H, is defined as$$\begin{array}{}\text{(14)}& d_H=\frac{\sqrt{{\displaystyle {\sum }_{i=1}^N{H_{\text{mea}}{\tau }_i-H_{\text{mod}}{\tau }_i}^2}}}{N\max H_{\text{mea}}-\min H_{\text{mea}}}\times 100\%,\end{array}$$where N is the number of sampling points of the B-H loop, τ stands for ωt ∈ [0, 2π] with as the angular frequency of a B-waveform, and H_mea and H_mod are the measured and modelling H-waveforms, respectively.

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Figure 10 shows the modelling performance of the proposed vector hysteresis model when it is applied to elliptically rotating magnetic field conditions. The predicted and measured results match well each other, and it is shown that the proposed vector hysteresis model can be successfully applied to various rotating magnetic field conditions.

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4. Conclusion

In this paper, an improved anisotropic vector Preisach hysteresis model is proposed to describe the vector and weakly anisotropic hysteresis behavior for NO ESS under 50 Hz rotating magnetic fields. The proposed model consists of three components, static hysteresis component, eddy current component, and excess component, and coefficients z, r, $p$, and ψ are introduced to increase the anisotropic property and the accuracy. The proposed model is identified by the measured hysteresis properties under 1 Hz and 50 Hz alternating and rotating magnetic fields. And, because maximum B value of the measured data for identification is 1.6 T, the limitation of the model is only up to the magnetic field whose B_max = 1.6 T. Through applications to NO ESS, the proposed vector hysteresis model is proven to describe the anisotropic properties under various rotating magnetic fields.

Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the Grants 51777139 and 52007113 and the Shanghai Sailing Program under the Grant 20YF1416300.

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