The feasibility of developing very high speed variable reluctance electric alternators of significant power

This work describes the feasibility of designing variable reluctance machine and an accompanying rectifier/inverter or a cycloconverter to do the necessary frequency conversion. In addition, the possibility of designing a complementary variable reluctance motor have a wide range of speed variability as well as a very high starting torque without undue starting currents such as is required in conventional induction motors. The proposed variable reluctance magnetic circuit concept is illustrated in this paper.