Moving Towards the Reliability-oriented Design of Hairpin Winding for EV Traction Machines Driven by SiC Inverter

With the development of high-frequency and high-voltage traction machines (TM) incorporating hairpin windings (HW) and SiC inverters for electric vehicles (EV), both the interturn voltage stress and temperature within HW are rising, increasing the risk of partial discharge (PD), and presenting signi...

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Main Authors: Xiaowei Ju, Yue Zhang, Zhiwei Xue, Yuan Cheng, Shumei Cui
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Published: China Electrotechnical Society 2025-03-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10908521
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description With the development of high-frequency and high-voltage traction machines (TM) incorporating hairpin windings (HW) and SiC inverters for electric vehicles (EV), both the interturn voltage stress and temperature within HW are rising, increasing the risk of partial discharge (PD), and presenting significant challenges to insulation safety. Therefore, this paper addresses this issue and proposes potential solutions. Firstly, the paper examines an 8-pole, 48-slot, 6-layer HW TM to highlight the unique characteristics of this winding structure, and explains the uneven distribution of interturn voltage stress and temperature. Subsequently, a high-frequency equivalent circuit model of the HW TM prototype is developed. The error of simulation and experiment is only 5.7 %, which proves the accuracy of the model. Then, an improved HW scheme is proposed to lower the maximum voltage stress by 29.3 %. Furthermore, the temperature distribution of HW TM is analyzed to facilitate a detailed examination of the impact of temperature on insulation PD. Finally, the partial discharge inception voltage (PDIV) of interturn insulation, considering temperature effects, is calculated and verified through experiment. The paper proposes a reliability-oriented design method and process for HW TM. It demonstrates that the reliability-oriented design can achieve PD-free performance in the design stage of HW.
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spelling doaj-art-e323e81dc2bc4a7799e22ad9669163012025-08-20T01:55:05ZengChina Electrotechnical SocietyCES Transactions on Electrical Machines and Systems2096-35642837-03252025-03-0191263510.30941/CESTEMS.2025.00005Moving Towards the Reliability-oriented Design of Hairpin Winding for EV Traction Machines Driven by SiC InverterXiaowei Ju0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8151-418XYue Zhang1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9974-2009Zhiwei Xue2Yuan Cheng3https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9706-1077Shumei Cui4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1931-4689School of Electrical Engineering, Shenyang University of TechnologyShandong UniversitySchool of Electrical Engineering, Shenyang University of TechnologySchool of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of TechnologySchool of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of TechnologyWith the development of high-frequency and high-voltage traction machines (TM) incorporating hairpin windings (HW) and SiC inverters for electric vehicles (EV), both the interturn voltage stress and temperature within HW are rising, increasing the risk of partial discharge (PD), and presenting significant challenges to insulation safety. Therefore, this paper addresses this issue and proposes potential solutions. Firstly, the paper examines an 8-pole, 48-slot, 6-layer HW TM to highlight the unique characteristics of this winding structure, and explains the uneven distribution of interturn voltage stress and temperature. Subsequently, a high-frequency equivalent circuit model of the HW TM prototype is developed. The error of simulation and experiment is only 5.7 %, which proves the accuracy of the model. Then, an improved HW scheme is proposed to lower the maximum voltage stress by 29.3 %. Furthermore, the temperature distribution of HW TM is analyzed to facilitate a detailed examination of the impact of temperature on insulation PD. Finally, the partial discharge inception voltage (PDIV) of interturn insulation, considering temperature effects, is calculated and verified through experiment. The paper proposes a reliability-oriented design method and process for HW TM. It demonstrates that the reliability-oriented design can achieve PD-free performance in the design stage of HW.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10908521hairpin windinginsulationelectric-thermal stresspartial dischargesic inverter
spellingShingle Xiaowei Ju
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Zhiwei Xue
Yuan Cheng
Shumei Cui
Moving Towards the Reliability-oriented Design of Hairpin Winding for EV Traction Machines Driven by SiC Inverter
CES Transactions on Electrical Machines and Systems
hairpin winding
insulation
electric-thermal stress
partial discharge
sic inverter
title Moving Towards the Reliability-oriented Design of Hairpin Winding for EV Traction Machines Driven by SiC Inverter
title_full Moving Towards the Reliability-oriented Design of Hairpin Winding for EV Traction Machines Driven by SiC Inverter
title_fullStr Moving Towards the Reliability-oriented Design of Hairpin Winding for EV Traction Machines Driven by SiC Inverter
title_full_unstemmed Moving Towards the Reliability-oriented Design of Hairpin Winding for EV Traction Machines Driven by SiC Inverter
title_short Moving Towards the Reliability-oriented Design of Hairpin Winding for EV Traction Machines Driven by SiC Inverter
title_sort moving towards the reliability oriented design of hairpin winding for ev traction machines driven by sic inverter
topic hairpin winding
insulation
electric-thermal stress
partial discharge
sic inverter
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10908521
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