Innovative Design of the Cooling Topologies for Electric Vehicle Motors

Zhang Zi-Chao, Song Qiang*, Bilal Ahmed

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

According to the different cooling medium, the electric motor cooling styles can be divided into liquid cooling and air cooling; the former involves water cooling and oil cooling while the latter comprises natural air cooling and forced air cooling. Whereas, the air cooling system is difficult to meet various performance requirements for the modern Electric Vehicle (EV). Therefore, approximately all EV motors are liquid cooled at present. Moreover with the trend of EV motors to Permanent Magnet (PM) and to high speed, for instance, the maximum working rotated speed from 10,000rpm to 20,000 rpm, the packaging of the motor is minimized at same power while efficiency drops, lifetime shorten and even cause demagnetization due to thermal effects without optimum design. Consequently, the improvement of the liquid cooling system is essential to enhance the efficiency of the EV motor in the future for higher power density. In this perspective, the innovative cooling topologies of electric machines based on the development results of the parts such as lubricating oil and motive seal of electric vehicles are presented in this paper. It solves some problems brought about by predecessors in view of the high efficiency and reliability of the motor with higher energy density.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012021
JournalIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
Volume533
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event2019 5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Control and Robotics, EECR 2019 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 12 Jan 201914 Jan 2019

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