Design and implementation of a five horsepower switched reluctance, fuel-lube, pump motor drive for a gas turbine engine

Author

Ferreira, Caio A. ; Jones, Stephen R. ; Drager, Barry T. ; Heglund, William S.

Author_Institution

Sundstrand Aerospace, Rockford, IL, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

13-17 Feb 1994

Firstpage

56

Abstract

A new switched reluctance (SR) fuel/lube (F/L) pump system has been developed for a gas turbine engine application. The system is rated at 5 HP, 270 VDC, 12500 RPM maximum operating speed, and consists of a SR machine mounted on the F/L pump shaft, an inverter, and an electronic controller. This paper focuses on the design, implementation, and performance of the system. The system can use one of two methods for rotor position sensing, either a resolver or electronic position sensing (EPS). The F/L pump system has undergone extensive performance testing with the resolver. Currently, testing is underway using electronic position sensing. Test results are given to validate the system design and compare the performance using both approaches to position sensing. System efficiency is about 82 percent at full load

Keywords

electric drives; gas turbines; position measurement; pumps; reluctance motors; rotors; 270 V; 5 hp; electronic controller; electronic position sensing; fuel/lube pump system; gas turbine engine; inverter; performance testing; resolver; rotor position sensing; switched reluctance motor drive; Control systems; Electronic equipment testing; Engines; Fuels; Inverters; Pumps; Shafts; Strontium; System testing; Turbines;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 1994. APEC '94. Conference Proceedings 1994., Ninth Annual

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1456-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.1994.316419

Filename

316419