Performance analysis of various configurations of Switched Reluctance Machine for wind energy applications

Abstract

Climate change is a contemporary issue and the international communities have accepted the dangers of green house gas emissions. Renewable energy is one of the hot topics when it comes to dealing with green house gas emissions treatments. Wind generation is one of the renewable energy power sources that helps in reducing the carbon di oxide from our atmosphere and is one of the major remedy for green house gas emission treatments. Switched Reluctance Machine (SRM) when operated as Generator is proved to be most efficient with variable wind speeds. A knowledge on the performance characteristics of Switched Reluctance machine is essential for its optimum design. The performance analysis of SRM with different winding constructions based on SRdAS (switched reluctance design and simulation ) software package is presented in this paper for exploring its suitability in widespread applications. The model of SRM has been developed based on finite element method in the above simulation package.