Design and Performance Investigation of 3-Slot/2-Pole High Speed Permanent Magnet Machine

High-speed rotating mechanical machinery is a developed, mature and reliable technology for many engineering applications. In high-speed permanent magnet machines, the rotor’s permanent magnet PM is not strong enough to withstand the centrifugal force resulting from excessive rotational speed; thus, the PM material must be protected by a non-magnetic alloy sleeve. This paper presents a novel high-speed PM machine with solid rotor PM covered by a titanium retaining sleeve. The rotor stress condition is simplified as a plane stress problem according to the strength measurement of solid PM rotors in the high-speed PM motors. The analytical formulas for rotor stress are presented based on the polar coordinate displacement method. The proposed model is compared with a conventional model having auxiliary slots in stator teeth. Using a finite element analysis environment, the performance analysis shows that the proposed design has reduced magnet eddy current loss, cogging torque, and iron losses. The initial design is also optimized using a deterministic optimization algorithm that increases output torque by 26% compared to the initial design.