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Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy                                                         www.iiste.org
ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online)
Vol.1, No.4, 2011


      Modeling Power Losses in Electric Vehicle BLDC Motor
                                           James Kuria1* Pyung Hwang2
    1.   Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology,
         P.O. Box 62000-00200, Nairobi, Kenya
    2.   School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 712-749, Republic of
         Korea
    * E-mail of the corresponding author: jkuria@eng.jkuat.ac.ke


Abstract
In order to design an efficient motor cooling system, it is important to accurately predict the power losses
which are normally dissipated in form of heat. This study presents an analytical method for estimating
bearing frictional losses and numerical method for estimating electromagnetic losses for an electric vehicle
BLDC motor. The power losses obtained are used as heat sources when evaluating the thermal performance
of the motor. The results showed that electromagnetic losses are dominant and contribute over 80% of all
losses, while bearing losses contribute about 12% of the total electric motor. The results also showed that
bearing losses increase significantly with increasing speed or load.
Keywords: BLDC motor, bearing frictional losses, electromagnetic losses, joules losses, eddy current
losses


1. Introduction
Extensive research on electric vehicle motor system is currently being conducted to minimize overreliance on
petroleum products and to curb emissions associated with climate change. When designing an electric motor, it is
important to study the motor losses in order to find ways of improving motor efficiency and to design an efficient
cooling system. Motor losses consist of electromagnetic and mechanical losses.

The electromagnetic losses have been well understood since most electric motor designers have an
electrical background. Kyoung-Jin et al (Ko et al., 2010), undertook a study to predict electromagnetic
losses of a high speed permanent magnet synchronous motor using analytical and FEA. Coupled
electromagnetic and thermal studies have been carried by various researchers (Driesen et al., 2002;
Marignetti, 2007; Z. Makni, 2007; Dorell, 2008). In most of these studies, the effect of mechanical losses
was neglected or expressed using a factor. However, to accurately predict the overall efficiency and total
heat generated in a motor system, the mechanical losses, which include bearing and windage losses, have to
be considered. This work aims at investigating the electromagnetic and mechanical power losses of a 1.2
kW brushless direct current (BLDC) permanent magnet motor. The specifications of the motor are shown in
Table 1. The motor is to be used to power an electric vehicle compressor.


2. Bearing Frictional Losses
Bearing friction losses consist of four main components (Hamrock & Anderson, 1983):
    1. Hydrodynamic rolling force.
    2. Sliding friction losses between the rolling elements and the races.
    3. Sliding friction between the rolling elements and the separator/ cage.
    4. Hysteresis losses.



2.1 Forces on Ball-Race Contacts

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The tangential forces acting on a ball-race contact can be evaluated from Figure 1. The following forces act
between the ball and the outer race: hydrodynamic rolling forces, FRo and friction forces Fso. Also, between
the ball and the inner race act the following forces: hydrodynamic rolling forces, FRi and friction forces Fsi.
Between the ball and the cage, act normal force FB.
2.2 Hydrodynamic Rolling Force
The hydrodynamic rolling force is due to the Poiseuille flow or pressure gradient in the inlet of an
elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) contact and is responsible for the hydrodynamic race torque, even
when operating under pure rolling conditions. In the EHL condition, this force can be approximated by the
relationship (Houpert, 1999):


                                  FR = 2.86 ⋅ E '⋅ Rx 2 ⋅ k 0.348 ⋅ G 0.022 ⋅ U 0.66 ⋅ W 0.47                     (1)


where G, U and W are dimensionless material, speed and load parameters, Rx is the equivalent radius in the
rolling direction, E’ is equivalent Young’s modulus and k is radius ratio.

2.3 Sliding Frictional Forces
The friction forces Fsi and Fso on the two contacts are the sliding traction forces due to microslip occurring
in the contact. This force can be computed from shear stresses on the contact ellipse (Houpert, 1999).
Since the variation of shear stress on the contact ellipse is a complex problem, these forces can be
computed from equilibrium of forces and moments acting on the ball (Figure 1 and 2)

The resulting sliding forces are given by:

         Fsi =
                 MCo + MCi + MERo + MERi + MB
                                              + FRo +
                                                      ( FRi + FRo ) d w cos cos α + FB                            (2)
                              dw                                 dm                  2


      Fsi =
              MCo + MCi + MERo + MERi + MB
                                           + FRo −
                                                   ( FRi + FRo ) d w cos cos α − FB                               (3)
                           dw                                 dm                  2
The coefficient of friction in the ball-race system depends on the lubrication regime, whether limited, mixed or
full EHL. In this study, methods of Hamrock (Hamrock, 1994) were used to determine the coefficient of friction
based on the lubrication regime.

2.4 Frictional Torque Developed in Ball-Race Contacts
From Figure 1, the total tangential force, Fi, Fo, between the ball and races can be determined by taking the
algebraic sum of the contact forces in the rolling direction.


                                                        Fi = FRi + Fsi                                           (4)



                                                         Fo = FRo + Fso                                         (5)


  The friction torque developed between a ball and outer race contact is:



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                                                      M i = Fi ⋅ Ri                                               (6)



                                                     M o = Fo ⋅ Ro                                                (7)


  Where Ri and Ro are the radius of ball-inner race and ball-outer race contacts respectively.

  For z loaded balls, the total friction torque acting on the bearing is obtained by summing all the friction torques
  in the ball-race contacts:


                                                                      z
                                                         MI = ∑ M i , j                                           (8)
                                                                     j =1




                                                                 z
                                                       MI = ∑ M o , j                                             (9)
                                                                j =1



2.5 Bearing Frictional Power Losses
The friction power loss from the bearing can be approximated by the product
of the friction torque and the orbital velocity of the balls, ωc. Thus,



                                                P = [ MI + MO]ωc                                                (10)



The above set of equations is applied to individual bearings depending on
the number of bearings in the motor system.
The equations formulated in the study were coded into a FORTRAN program and simulated. An IPM motor
mounted between two ball bearings was analyzed in the study. The bearing reaction with a dynamic factor was
taken to as the bearing radial load. Table 2 shows the specifications of a deep groove bearing used in the analysis.
General purpose bearing lubricant was used in the analysis (SKF, 2009).

3. Electromagnetic Losses
Electromagnetic losses consist of two main components:
   I. Winding copper losses Pcu that are caused by resistive heating of the copper windings and are defined
         by:


                                                              Pcu = 3Rθ I rms
                                                                          2
                                                                                                                  (11)




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         where Rθ and Irms are respectively the winding phase resistance and the RMS value of the
         motor phase current.
  II. Core losses Pfe , consist of eddy current losses and hysteresis effect. In brushless DC motors, the
         variation of flux in the stator core is not sinusoidal and hence the iron core loss is given by:

                                                                   2
                                                k  dB 
                                 Pfe = kh fBα + e 2   (W/kg)
                                           ˆ                                                                    (12)
                                               2π  dt rms

                                                                                              ˆ
         Where the first term is the hysteresis loss and the second is the eddy current loss. B is the
         peak value of the flux density and f, kh, α and ke are constants determined by curve fitting
         from manufacturer’s data (Andrada et al., 2004).

The electromagnetic losses were obtained using Ansoft Maxwell that e mploys finite element analysis. Due
to periodicity of the motor, only ¼ of the motor was analyzed in order to reduce the computational
requirements. Figure 3 shows the 2D FEA mesh of ¼ of the motor used in the study.

4. Results and Discussions
The results obtained in the above analyses are presented and discussed in this section.

4.1 Bearing Losses
Generally, the load on a rolling element varies within the load distribution zone. Methods by Brian and
Robert (Holm-Hansen & Gao, 2000) were employed to determine the load distribution on a rolling element.
Figure 4 shows variation of the contact load on a rolling element.

Figure 5 shows the variation of hydrodynamic rolling force and sliding friction force on a rolling element with the
contact angle. It is evident that the load distribution influences the contact forces on the rolling element as the
shape of the curves is similar to that of the load distribution.

Figure 6 shows the variation of the total bearing loss as a function of angular displacement. The fluctuations of the
loss are due to the change in the number of rolling elements within the load carrying zone.

Figure 7 shows variation of frictional torque with speed which shows that the frictional torque increases with speed.
Figure 8 shows variation of power loss with speed. When a motor system is to operate at high speeds, then the
bearing frictional losses cannot be neglected (Dorell, 2008).

4.2 Electromagnetic Losses
Figure 9 shows contour plots of the core loss obtained from MAXWELL
simulations.

Figure 10 and 11 show transient core and stranded copper losses respectively.
The core loss is dependent on rotor and stator material properties while
stranded loss is directly proportional to the current density. Stranded
windings were employed in the analysis in order to simplify the computations.

Table 3 shows the various motor losses and corresponding heat sources computed for the BLDC motor in
this study. These heat sources can be used in designing an efficient cooling system for the motor.


5. Conclusion


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The analysis showed that electromagnetic losses are dominant and contribute
over 80% of all motor losses, while bearing losses contribute about 12% of
the total motor losses. The major contribution to the bearing losses is the
sliding friction due to microslip occurring at the ball-race contacts. This
results show that it is imperative that bearing losses should be included
when quantifying motor losses to estimate motor efficiency and in the design
of efficient cooling systems for the motor.
References
Ko, K.-J., Jang, S.-M., Park, J.-H., & Lee, S.-H. (2010). Electromagnetic losses calculation of 5kW class
high speed permanent magnet synchronous motor considering current waveform. IEEE Transactions on
Industry Applications.

Driesen, J., Belmans, J. M., & Hameyer, K. (2002). Methodologies for coupled transient
electromagnetic-therma finite element modeling of electrical energy transducers. IEEE Transactions on
Industry Applications, 38(5), 12441250.

Marignetti, F. (2007). Coupled electro magnetic thermal and fluid dynamical simulation of axial flux PM
synchronous machines. Paper presented at the COMSOL Users Conference, Grenoble.

Z. Makni, M. B. a. C. M. (2007). A coupled electromagnetic-thermal model for the design of electrical
machines. The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, 26(1), 201-213.

Dorell, D. G. (2008). Combined Thermal and Electromagnetic Analysis of Permanent-Magnet and
Induction Machines to Aid Calculation. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 55(10), 3566-3574.

Hamrock, B. J., & Anderson, W. J. (1983). Rolling - Element Bearing: National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).

Houpert, L. (1999). Numerical and Analytical Calculations in Ball Bearings. Paper presented at the
Congres Roulements.

Hamrock, B. J. (1994). Fundamentals of Fluid Film Lubrication (International ed.): McGrawHill, Inc.

SKF, G. (2009). SKF General Purpose Industrial and Automotive Grease: SKF Group.

Andrada, P., Torrent, M., Perat, J. I., & Blanque, B. (2004). Power Losses in Outside-Spin Brushless D.C.
Motors: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya.

Holm-Hansen, B. T., & Gao, R. X. (2000). Vibration Analysis of a Sensor-Integrated Ball Bearing.
Transactions of the ASME, 122, 384-392.

                                       Table 1. Motor properties.
                     Parameter                                      Value
                     Type                                  BLDC PM motor
                     Power rating                               1.2 kW
                     Maximum speed                            13,000 rpm
                     Rated speed                               8,000 rpm


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                   Rated torque                                      1.5 Nm
                   Voltage                                           DC 72 V
                   Housing diameter                                  120 mm



        Table 2. Dimensions of a deep groove ball bearing (Bearing No. 6004) (SKF, 2009).
                             Parameter                    Value
                             Outer diameter               42 mm
                             Bore diameter                20 mm
                             Ball diameter                6.35 mm
                             Raceway width                12 mm
                             Contact angle                0o
                             Load distribution factor     0.45
                             No. of rolling elements      13


                        Table 3. Motor losses and corresponding heat sources.
                Loss                 Value              Heat source (W/m3)
                Coreloss              50 W              Stator teeth            114,800
                                                        Stator tip              800,000
                                                        Stator body           1,600,000
                                                        Rotor                   114,800
                Copper losses        150 W                                     3,000,000
                Bearing friction      12 W                                      450,000
                loss




            Figure 1. Forces acting on a ball and the two races of a ball bearing system.




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             Figure 2. Moments acting on a ball and the two races of a ball bearing system.




                             Figure 3. 2D FEA mesh in Ansoft MAXWELL.




        Figure 4. Load distribution on a rolling element bearing, for a radial force of 200N.



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Figure 5. Hydrodynamic and sliding friction forces on a rolling element at a radial load of 200N and a
                                         speed of 6000rpm.




  Figure 6. Bearing friction loss across the loading zone (for a radial load of 80N and rotational speed of
                                                 8000rpm).




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       Figure 7. Variation of bearing frictional torque with speed for constant radial load of 200N.




     Figure 8. Variation of bearing frictional power loss with speed for constant radial load of 200N.




     Figure 9. Contours of coreloss in a BLDC motor, obtained from MAXWELL simulations.

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                                                                              XY Plot 2                  Maxwell2DDesign3              ANSOFT
                  22.50                                                                                               Curve Info
                                                                                                                        CoreLoss
                                                                                                                  Setup1 : Transient
                  20.00

                  17.50

                  15.00
         CoreLoss [W]




                  12.50

                  10.00

                        7.50

                        5.00

                        2.50

                        0.00
                            0.00                       1.00           2.00         3.00       4.00         5.00                   6.00
                                                                                 Time [ms]
                                                              Figure 10. Transient stator core loss.

                                                                              XY Plot 3                Maxwell2DDesign3       ANSOFT

                                    160.00                                                                      Curve Info
                                                                                                                  StrandedLoss
                                                                                                            Setup1 : Transient
                                    140.00

                                    120.00
                        StrandedLoss [W]




                                    100.00

                                           80.00

                                           60.00

                                           40.00

                                           20.00

                                            0.00
                                                0.00     1.00          2.00         3.00      4.00      5.00                 6.00
                                                                                  Time [ms]

                                                       Figure 11. Transient stranded copper loss.




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Modeling power losses in electric vehicle bldc motor

  • 1. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online) Vol.1, No.4, 2011 Modeling Power Losses in Electric Vehicle BLDC Motor James Kuria1* Pyung Hwang2 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P.O. Box 62000-00200, Nairobi, Kenya 2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, 712-749, Republic of Korea * E-mail of the corresponding author: jkuria@eng.jkuat.ac.ke Abstract In order to design an efficient motor cooling system, it is important to accurately predict the power losses which are normally dissipated in form of heat. This study presents an analytical method for estimating bearing frictional losses and numerical method for estimating electromagnetic losses for an electric vehicle BLDC motor. The power losses obtained are used as heat sources when evaluating the thermal performance of the motor. The results showed that electromagnetic losses are dominant and contribute over 80% of all losses, while bearing losses contribute about 12% of the total electric motor. The results also showed that bearing losses increase significantly with increasing speed or load. Keywords: BLDC motor, bearing frictional losses, electromagnetic losses, joules losses, eddy current losses 1. Introduction Extensive research on electric vehicle motor system is currently being conducted to minimize overreliance on petroleum products and to curb emissions associated with climate change. When designing an electric motor, it is important to study the motor losses in order to find ways of improving motor efficiency and to design an efficient cooling system. Motor losses consist of electromagnetic and mechanical losses. The electromagnetic losses have been well understood since most electric motor designers have an electrical background. Kyoung-Jin et al (Ko et al., 2010), undertook a study to predict electromagnetic losses of a high speed permanent magnet synchronous motor using analytical and FEA. Coupled electromagnetic and thermal studies have been carried by various researchers (Driesen et al., 2002; Marignetti, 2007; Z. Makni, 2007; Dorell, 2008). In most of these studies, the effect of mechanical losses was neglected or expressed using a factor. However, to accurately predict the overall efficiency and total heat generated in a motor system, the mechanical losses, which include bearing and windage losses, have to be considered. This work aims at investigating the electromagnetic and mechanical power losses of a 1.2 kW brushless direct current (BLDC) permanent magnet motor. The specifications of the motor are shown in Table 1. The motor is to be used to power an electric vehicle compressor. 2. Bearing Frictional Losses Bearing friction losses consist of four main components (Hamrock & Anderson, 1983): 1. Hydrodynamic rolling force. 2. Sliding friction losses between the rolling elements and the races. 3. Sliding friction between the rolling elements and the separator/ cage. 4. Hysteresis losses. 2.1 Forces on Ball-Race Contacts 8
  • 2. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online) Vol.1, No.4, 2011 The tangential forces acting on a ball-race contact can be evaluated from Figure 1. The following forces act between the ball and the outer race: hydrodynamic rolling forces, FRo and friction forces Fso. Also, between the ball and the inner race act the following forces: hydrodynamic rolling forces, FRi and friction forces Fsi. Between the ball and the cage, act normal force FB. 2.2 Hydrodynamic Rolling Force The hydrodynamic rolling force is due to the Poiseuille flow or pressure gradient in the inlet of an elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) contact and is responsible for the hydrodynamic race torque, even when operating under pure rolling conditions. In the EHL condition, this force can be approximated by the relationship (Houpert, 1999): FR = 2.86 ⋅ E '⋅ Rx 2 ⋅ k 0.348 ⋅ G 0.022 ⋅ U 0.66 ⋅ W 0.47 (1) where G, U and W are dimensionless material, speed and load parameters, Rx is the equivalent radius in the rolling direction, E’ is equivalent Young’s modulus and k is radius ratio. 2.3 Sliding Frictional Forces The friction forces Fsi and Fso on the two contacts are the sliding traction forces due to microslip occurring in the contact. This force can be computed from shear stresses on the contact ellipse (Houpert, 1999). Since the variation of shear stress on the contact ellipse is a complex problem, these forces can be computed from equilibrium of forces and moments acting on the ball (Figure 1 and 2) The resulting sliding forces are given by: Fsi = MCo + MCi + MERo + MERi + MB + FRo + ( FRi + FRo ) d w cos cos α + FB (2) dw dm 2 Fsi = MCo + MCi + MERo + MERi + MB + FRo − ( FRi + FRo ) d w cos cos α − FB (3) dw dm 2 The coefficient of friction in the ball-race system depends on the lubrication regime, whether limited, mixed or full EHL. In this study, methods of Hamrock (Hamrock, 1994) were used to determine the coefficient of friction based on the lubrication regime. 2.4 Frictional Torque Developed in Ball-Race Contacts From Figure 1, the total tangential force, Fi, Fo, between the ball and races can be determined by taking the algebraic sum of the contact forces in the rolling direction. Fi = FRi + Fsi (4) Fo = FRo + Fso (5) The friction torque developed between a ball and outer race contact is: 9
  • 3. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online) Vol.1, No.4, 2011 M i = Fi ⋅ Ri (6) M o = Fo ⋅ Ro (7) Where Ri and Ro are the radius of ball-inner race and ball-outer race contacts respectively. For z loaded balls, the total friction torque acting on the bearing is obtained by summing all the friction torques in the ball-race contacts: z MI = ∑ M i , j (8) j =1 z MI = ∑ M o , j (9) j =1 2.5 Bearing Frictional Power Losses The friction power loss from the bearing can be approximated by the product of the friction torque and the orbital velocity of the balls, ωc. Thus, P = [ MI + MO]ωc (10) The above set of equations is applied to individual bearings depending on the number of bearings in the motor system. The equations formulated in the study were coded into a FORTRAN program and simulated. An IPM motor mounted between two ball bearings was analyzed in the study. The bearing reaction with a dynamic factor was taken to as the bearing radial load. Table 2 shows the specifications of a deep groove bearing used in the analysis. General purpose bearing lubricant was used in the analysis (SKF, 2009). 3. Electromagnetic Losses Electromagnetic losses consist of two main components: I. Winding copper losses Pcu that are caused by resistive heating of the copper windings and are defined by: Pcu = 3Rθ I rms 2 (11) 10
  • 4. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online) Vol.1, No.4, 2011 where Rθ and Irms are respectively the winding phase resistance and the RMS value of the motor phase current. II. Core losses Pfe , consist of eddy current losses and hysteresis effect. In brushless DC motors, the variation of flux in the stator core is not sinusoidal and hence the iron core loss is given by: 2 k  dB  Pfe = kh fBα + e 2   (W/kg) ˆ (12) 2π  dt rms ˆ Where the first term is the hysteresis loss and the second is the eddy current loss. B is the peak value of the flux density and f, kh, α and ke are constants determined by curve fitting from manufacturer’s data (Andrada et al., 2004). The electromagnetic losses were obtained using Ansoft Maxwell that e mploys finite element analysis. Due to periodicity of the motor, only ¼ of the motor was analyzed in order to reduce the computational requirements. Figure 3 shows the 2D FEA mesh of ¼ of the motor used in the study. 4. Results and Discussions The results obtained in the above analyses are presented and discussed in this section. 4.1 Bearing Losses Generally, the load on a rolling element varies within the load distribution zone. Methods by Brian and Robert (Holm-Hansen & Gao, 2000) were employed to determine the load distribution on a rolling element. Figure 4 shows variation of the contact load on a rolling element. Figure 5 shows the variation of hydrodynamic rolling force and sliding friction force on a rolling element with the contact angle. It is evident that the load distribution influences the contact forces on the rolling element as the shape of the curves is similar to that of the load distribution. Figure 6 shows the variation of the total bearing loss as a function of angular displacement. The fluctuations of the loss are due to the change in the number of rolling elements within the load carrying zone. Figure 7 shows variation of frictional torque with speed which shows that the frictional torque increases with speed. Figure 8 shows variation of power loss with speed. When a motor system is to operate at high speeds, then the bearing frictional losses cannot be neglected (Dorell, 2008). 4.2 Electromagnetic Losses Figure 9 shows contour plots of the core loss obtained from MAXWELL simulations. Figure 10 and 11 show transient core and stranded copper losses respectively. The core loss is dependent on rotor and stator material properties while stranded loss is directly proportional to the current density. Stranded windings were employed in the analysis in order to simplify the computations. Table 3 shows the various motor losses and corresponding heat sources computed for the BLDC motor in this study. These heat sources can be used in designing an efficient cooling system for the motor. 5. Conclusion 11
  • 5. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online) Vol.1, No.4, 2011 The analysis showed that electromagnetic losses are dominant and contribute over 80% of all motor losses, while bearing losses contribute about 12% of the total motor losses. The major contribution to the bearing losses is the sliding friction due to microslip occurring at the ball-race contacts. This results show that it is imperative that bearing losses should be included when quantifying motor losses to estimate motor efficiency and in the design of efficient cooling systems for the motor. References Ko, K.-J., Jang, S.-M., Park, J.-H., & Lee, S.-H. (2010). Electromagnetic losses calculation of 5kW class high speed permanent magnet synchronous motor considering current waveform. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications. Driesen, J., Belmans, J. M., & Hameyer, K. (2002). Methodologies for coupled transient electromagnetic-therma finite element modeling of electrical energy transducers. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 38(5), 12441250. Marignetti, F. (2007). Coupled electro magnetic thermal and fluid dynamical simulation of axial flux PM synchronous machines. Paper presented at the COMSOL Users Conference, Grenoble. Z. Makni, M. B. a. C. M. (2007). A coupled electromagnetic-thermal model for the design of electrical machines. The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 26(1), 201-213. Dorell, D. G. (2008). Combined Thermal and Electromagnetic Analysis of Permanent-Magnet and Induction Machines to Aid Calculation. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 55(10), 3566-3574. Hamrock, B. J., & Anderson, W. J. (1983). Rolling - Element Bearing: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Houpert, L. (1999). Numerical and Analytical Calculations in Ball Bearings. Paper presented at the Congres Roulements. Hamrock, B. J. (1994). Fundamentals of Fluid Film Lubrication (International ed.): McGrawHill, Inc. SKF, G. (2009). SKF General Purpose Industrial and Automotive Grease: SKF Group. Andrada, P., Torrent, M., Perat, J. I., & Blanque, B. (2004). Power Losses in Outside-Spin Brushless D.C. Motors: Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya. Holm-Hansen, B. T., & Gao, R. X. (2000). Vibration Analysis of a Sensor-Integrated Ball Bearing. Transactions of the ASME, 122, 384-392. Table 1. Motor properties. Parameter Value Type BLDC PM motor Power rating 1.2 kW Maximum speed 13,000 rpm Rated speed 8,000 rpm 12
  • 6. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online) Vol.1, No.4, 2011 Rated torque 1.5 Nm Voltage DC 72 V Housing diameter 120 mm Table 2. Dimensions of a deep groove ball bearing (Bearing No. 6004) (SKF, 2009). Parameter Value Outer diameter 42 mm Bore diameter 20 mm Ball diameter 6.35 mm Raceway width 12 mm Contact angle 0o Load distribution factor 0.45 No. of rolling elements 13 Table 3. Motor losses and corresponding heat sources. Loss Value Heat source (W/m3) Coreloss 50 W Stator teeth 114,800 Stator tip 800,000 Stator body 1,600,000 Rotor 114,800 Copper losses 150 W 3,000,000 Bearing friction 12 W 450,000 loss Figure 1. Forces acting on a ball and the two races of a ball bearing system. 13
  • 7. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online) Vol.1, No.4, 2011 Figure 2. Moments acting on a ball and the two races of a ball bearing system. Figure 3. 2D FEA mesh in Ansoft MAXWELL. Figure 4. Load distribution on a rolling element bearing, for a radial force of 200N. 14
  • 8. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online) Vol.1, No.4, 2011 Figure 5. Hydrodynamic and sliding friction forces on a rolling element at a radial load of 200N and a speed of 6000rpm. Figure 6. Bearing friction loss across the loading zone (for a radial load of 80N and rotational speed of 8000rpm). 15
  • 9. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online) Vol.1, No.4, 2011 Figure 7. Variation of bearing frictional torque with speed for constant radial load of 200N. Figure 8. Variation of bearing frictional power loss with speed for constant radial load of 200N. Figure 9. Contours of coreloss in a BLDC motor, obtained from MAXWELL simulations. 16
  • 10. Journal of Energy Technologies and Policy www.iiste.org ISSN 2224-3232 (Paper) ISSN 2225-0573 (Online) Vol.1, No.4, 2011 XY Plot 2 Maxwell2DDesign3 ANSOFT 22.50 Curve Info CoreLoss Setup1 : Transient 20.00 17.50 15.00 CoreLoss [W] 12.50 10.00 7.50 5.00 2.50 0.00 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 Time [ms] Figure 10. Transient stator core loss. XY Plot 3 Maxwell2DDesign3 ANSOFT 160.00 Curve Info StrandedLoss Setup1 : Transient 140.00 120.00 StrandedLoss [W] 100.00 80.00 60.00 40.00 20.00 0.00 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 Time [ms] Figure 11. Transient stranded copper loss. 17