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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Rafal Wrobel, Emeritus Dr David Reay, Professor Barrie Mecrow
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a conference proceedings (inc. abstract) that has been published in its final definitive form by IEEE, 2019.
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This paper presents design considerations of an air-cooled heat exchanger (HE) for a propulsion motor. The motor has been designed as a part of electric drive system for a high-altitude solar aircraft. The existing heat evacuation methods for such applications include predominantly forced air ventilation of the machine active parts through an open frame/motor housing. When considering numerous constraints associated with the airframe design, the effectiveness of such a cooling approach might be insufficient or have a detrimental impact on the system endurance. This is due to the resultant air flow via the motor body, which is rather difficult to reliably model or design for. In this work, the authors investigate a dedicated heat exchanger to assure a more measured design with superior cooling capability. To enable sufficient heat removal from the motor body, a metal additive manufacture (AM) was used in fabrication of the HE prototypes. Both design methodology and experimental results from tests on the HE/motor hardware demonstrators are discussed in detail. The research outcomes have shown that the use of the developed thermal management system offers a high level of motor/HE integration, lightweight design and a high removal rate of the generated heat.
Author(s): Wrobel R, Scholes B, Mustaffer A, Ullah S, Reay D, Mecrow B, Hussein A
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: 2019 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE)
Year of Conference: 2019
Pages: 753-760
Print publication date: 01/03/2020
Acceptance date: 04/09/2019
Date deposited: 10/10/2019
Publisher: IEEE
URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/ECCE.2019.8912308
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2019.8912308
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ISBN: 9781728103969