Investigation into Multi-Phase Armature Windings for High-Temperature Superconducting Wind Turbine Generators

High-Temperature superconducting (HTS) generators are being considered as a competitive candidate in large direct-drive (DD) wind turbines because of their features of being lightweight and compact. Normally a large air gap is inevitable in partially HTS generators, sacrificing the torque producing capability. In this paper, multi-phase...

Performance of Multi-Layer and Stator-Shifting Fractional-Slot Concentrated Windings for Superconducting Wind Turbine Generators under Normal and Short-Circuit Operation Conditions

High temperature superconducting (HTS) generators are being considered for large offshore direct-drive (DD) wind turbines as they are expected to be lightweight and compact. However, short circuit torques of an HTS generator with integral-slot distributed windings (ISDWs) are too high for wind turbine constructions, mainly due to the large...