Utilization of Additive Manufacturing in the Thermal Design of Electrical Machines: A Review
Machines 2022
Martin Sarap, Ants Kallaste, Payam Shams Ghahfarokhi, Hans Tiismus, Toomas Vaimann

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a key technology for advancing many fields, including electrical machines. It offers unparalleled design freedom together with low material waste and fast prototyping, which is why it has become to focus of many researchers. For electrical machines, AM allows the production of designs with optimized mechanical, electromagnetic and thermal parameters. This paper attempts to give the reader an overview of the existing research and thermal solutions which have been realized with the use of AM. These include novel heat sink and heat exchanger designs, solutions for cooling the machine windings directly, and additively manufactured hollow windings. Some solutions such as heat pipes, which have been produced with AM but not used to cool electrical machines, are also discussed, as these are used in conventional designs and will certainly be used for additively manufactured electrical machines in the future.


Atslēgas vārdi
additive manufacturing; electrical machines; metal 3D-printing; electrical machine cooling
DOI
10.3390/machines10040251
Hipersaite
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/10/4/251

Sarap, M., Kallaste, A., Shams Ghahfarokhi, P., Tiismus, H., Vaimann, T. Utilization of Additive Manufacturing in the Thermal Design of Electrical Machines: A Review. Machines, 2022, Vol. 10, No. 4, Article number 251. e-ISSN 2075-1702. Available from: doi:10.3390/machines10040251

Publikācijas valoda
English (en)
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