Advanced Future Automotive Electrical Machines based on Amorphous Iron

电机消耗约70%的发电量。 由一种名为无定形铁的有前途的磁性材料制成的电机比传统设计效率高得多，因此节省了能源。非晶铁通常很难精确地切割成电机所需的形状。我们建议设计和建造基于非晶铁的高效永磁电机，用于汽车应用，并将使用创新的澳大利亚水射流切割技术进行切割。关键的挑战是在考虑到材料和新切割工艺的能力和局限性的情况下，优化机器设计以实现商业化生产。

Electric machines consume about 70% of all electrical energy generated. Electric machines constructed from a promising magnetic material called amorphous iron can be much more efficient than conventional designs, hence saving energy. Amorphous iron is normally difficult to cut accurately into the shapes required in electric machines. We propose to design and construct high-efficiency permanent magnet machines based on amorphous iron for automotive applications, which will be cut using an innovative Australian waterjet cutting technique. The key challenges are to optimise the machine design for commercial production given the capabilities and limitations of the material and the new cutting process.