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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2005
Bulent Sarlioglu, Torrance, CA (US);
Colin E. Huggett, Longmont, CO (US);
Bulent Sarlioglu, Torrance, CA (US);
Colin E. Huggett, Longmont, CO (US);
Honeywell International, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system and method is provided for generating DC power using a synchronous reluctance machine () or a salient-pole synchronous machine () and a power converter (). The present invention can be used to achieve power production for a synchronous reluctance machine (), or can be used to achieve partial production of power from a traditional salient-pole synchronous machine/starter () in the case where the salient-pole synchronous machine/starter has degenerated into a synchronous reluctance machine due to, for example, a loss of excitation. In a power generation system, a control system and method can include a power converter (), controlled by a voltage command and at least one of a measured DC link () voltage or DC link () current, for use with a synchronous reluctance machine armature winding (A) and a prime mover (), such that movement of the synchronous reluctance machine rotor of the synchronous reluctance machine can be used to produce at least partial DC power generation.