U.S. patent number 3,913,045 [Application Number 05/495,126] was granted by the patent office on 1975-10-14 for linear moving field inductor for electromagnetic pumps, conveyor troughs or agitator reels for liquid metals.
This patent grant is currently assigned to AEG Elotherm G.m.b.H.. Invention is credited to Axel Von Starck.
United States Patent |
3,913,045 |
Von Starck |
October 14, 1975 |
Linear moving field inductor for electromagnetic pumps, conveyor
troughs or agitator reels for liquid metals
Abstract
A linear moving field inductor for an electromagnetic conveyor
trough or the like in which each of the teeth of the lamina bundle
-- defining the grooves in which a multiphase induction coil is
arranged -- is bounded by two grooves and encloses a single winding
having a height less than the depth of the grooves. In each groove
a heat elimination device, such as copper blocks, is inserted and
connected at least on the side facing the groove opening with a
groove cooling unit comprising one or more cooling pipes connected
thermally with a groove closing plate closing off the groove
opening.
Inventors: |
Von Starck; Axel (Remscheid,
DT) |
Assignee: |
AEG Elotherm G.m.b.H.
(Remscheid, DT)
|
Family
ID: |
5888768 |
Appl.
No.: |
05/495,126 |
Filed: |
August 5, 1974 |
Foreign Application Priority Data
Current U.S.
Class: |
336/60; 310/13;
417/50; 310/11; 336/61 |
Current CPC
Class: |
B22D
39/006 (20130101); H02K 44/06 (20130101) |
Current International
Class: |
B22D
39/00 (20060101); H02K 44/06 (20060101); H02K
44/00 (20060101); H01F 027/08 () |
Field of
Search: |
;336/55,5,60,61,62,205
;417/50,372,367 ;310/12,11,13,14,64,65 |
References Cited
[Referenced By]
U.S. Patent Documents
Primary Examiner: Kozma; Thomas J.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Cushman, Darby & Cushman
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. In linear moving field inductor for apparatus for moving molten
metal having a laminated grooved inductor lamina bundle of magnetic
material, in the grooves of which a multiphase induction coil is
arranged, the improvement wherein each of the teeth of the lamina
bundle is bounded on both sides by two grooves and enclosed in a
single winding, the height of which is less than the depth of the
grooves; and in each groove between the side surfaces of two
adjacent single windings a heat-elimination device is inserted and
connected thermally with the windings and connected at least on its
side facing the groove opening with a groove cooling unit with one
or more cooling pipes that are connected thermally with a
groove-closing plate that closes off the groove opening.
2. In a moving field inductor as in claim 1, the further
improvement wherein the single windings are wire coilings.
3. In a moving field inductor as in claim 1, the further
improvement wherein the single windings are cast in insulating
material to form a frame-shaped block.
4. In a moving field inductor as in claim 1, the further
improvement wherein the heat elimination devices are copper
blocks.
5. In a moving field inductor as in claim 1, the further
improvement wherein the groove-closing plates extend over the width
of the lamina bundle and are braced against this lamina bundle.
6. In a moving field inductor as in claim 1, the further
improvement wherein in the lamina bundle, several heat eliminating
lamina are arranged between the lamina of magnetic material, and
these heat eliminating lamina are connected on the side of the
lamina bundle facing the grooved side to heat sinks.
7. In a moving field inductor as in claim 6, the further
improvement wherein the heat sinks are copper pipes through which a
coolant passes.
8. In a moving field inductor as in claim 1, the further
improvement wherein the cooling pipes of the cooling units of
several grooves are connected to each other to form meander-shaped
cooling coils by means of pipe pieces.
Description
The invention concerns a linear moving field inductor for
electromagnetic pumps, conveyor troughs or agitator reels for
liquid metals with a laminated grooved inductor plate packet, in
the grooves of which a multiphase inductor coiling for producing an
electromagnetic moving field is arranged.
A moving field inductor if this sort, as is familiar to us from the
German Pat. No. 1,959,979, usually includes a two-layer bar winding
made of copper hollow sections through which coolants have passed.
This winding can - as described in the German Pat. No. 1,908,457 --
be in the form of a wave winding, for example. These moving field
inductors are used especially in the case of electromagnetic
conveyor troughts, which usually have a fireproof chute that riese
obliquely from a melting or warming vessel. Under this chute is
found the moving field inductor, which when in operation, conveys
liquid metal from the melting or warming vessel into the chute by
means of its moving field that moves along the length of the chute
and works contrary to the force of gravity and moves the metal
upwards in an open flow. Moving field inductors of this type have
proved very useful in practice. However, one disadvantage is the
fact that their operating voltage generally cannot be voluntarily
selected, but is rather essentially determined by the inductor or
chute dimensions and the type of metal to be conveyed. A
transformer constitutes a relatively large part of the total
system.
Besides this, in the case of these familiar bar windings, whenever
a higher voltage is needed for larger chute dimensions, insulation
problems that are very difficult to overcome always occur. The
design of these bar windings, which, because of the generally small
light cross-sections of the hollow bar conductors usually include a
relatively large number of independent cooling cycles for cooling
the winding, requires great manual dexterity, because it is usually
activated by hand, and extreme caution in use. Thus, repair of
inductors at the place where they are used is impossible in most
cases.
The task of the invention is to provide a linear moving field
inductor for electromagnetic pumps, conveyor troughts or agitator
reels, containing, in contrast to the known inductors with bar
winding, a winding system in which, regardless of the chute
arrangement and dimensions, the inductor voltage can be freely
selected from a broad range; this inductor, in contrast to the
known moving field inductors, is much more easily reparable, the
number of required cooling cycles is greatly reduced, and the same
conveying capacity is achieved at significantly less real power
consumption.
This task is solved by the moving field inductor of the invention,
which is characterized by the fact that each tooth of the
lamination bundle arranged on both sides of two grooves is enclosed
in a single winding, the height of which is less than the depth of
the grooves; that in each groove between the side surfaces of two
adjacent single windings, a heat-conduction device connected
thermally to these windings is inserted, and is connected at least
on its side facing the groove opening with a groove-cooling unit
that has one or more cooling pipes that are connected thermally to
a groove-closing plate that closes o-f the groove opening. It is
preferable that the single windings be wire coils and/or be cast in
insulating material to form a frame-shaped block. The
heat-conduction devices are preferably made of copper blocks.
According to a preferred model of the invention, several
heat-conduction lamina are placed between the transformer lamina in
the laminated stack of sheets in order to assist in the cooling of
the inductor. On the side facing the grooved side, they are
connected with sinks. The heat sinks can preferably be copper pipes
through which a coolant has passed.
According to another preferred model of the invention, cooling
pipes of the cooling units of several grooves are connected by
means of bridge-like or bow-shaped pipe pieces to meander-shaped
cooling coils, and to each other.
In the following, the invention is described thoroughly with
reference to the diagrams.
FIG. 1 shows a preferred model of the moving field inductor of the
invention in schematic partial representation;
FIG. 2 is the corresponding design cross-section.
In the grooved inductor lamina bundle 1, of which the diagrams show
only the part connected to the beginning of the inductor 2, each
tooth 3 of the lamina bundle 1, which is bounded by two grooves 4,
is enclosed by a single winding 5, the height of which is less than
the depth of the groove and which in this model consist of wire
coils cast in insulating material to form a frame-shaped block. In
the space remaining in the groove 4 between the two adjacent single
windings 5, a heat-conduction device preferably consisting of a
copper block 6 is inserted; this heat-conduction device is
connected thermally with the side surfaces of these two single
windings 5.
Connected to these heat-conduction devices 5 is a groove cooling
unit, that consists of a copper square pipe 7 and a groove-closing
plate 8 connected with that pipe. These groove-closing plates 8
extend over the width of the lamina bundle (see FIG. 2) and at
these ends are braced against the lamina bundle 1 in a manner not
explained in greater detail, for instance by means of clamp
bolts.
The cooling pipes 7 of the grooves 4 shown in the diagrams are
connected by means of bow-shaped pipe pieces 9 to a meander-shaped
cooling coil, one connection 10 of which can be seen in FIG. 2, on
the right. For cooling the lamina bundle 1, several heat conduction
lamina 11 are placed between the transformer sheets; these heat
conduction sheets are connected on the side of the lamina bundle 1
facing the grooved side to copper pipes 12 through which a coolant
flows, which act as heat sinks.
The electromagnetic moving field in the active inductor surface 13
of such a moving field inductor supplied with these distinct single
coils has a high harmonic content in contrast to normal rotary
current bar winding inductors. Such an inductor could not, for
example, be used as a stator for electric rotary current machines,
as these harmonic waves would disrupt the effective ground wave of
the moving field considerably in the generally relatively narrow
air gap.
In the case of a linear moving field inductor for pumps, conveyor
troughts or agitator reels for liguid metals, the "air gap" is
determined by the required separation of liquid metal and the
inductor by fireproof material, insofar that the harmonic waves
that, with increasing distance from the active inductor surface are
far more weakened than the ground waves, no longer significantly
disrupt the moving field.
For cooling during operation, the moving field inductor is intended
to eliminate quantities of heat that come from three sources.
First, the heat given off by the liquid metal in the directection
of the arrow 14 to the inductor is emitted through the
groove-closing plates 8 to the cooling pipe 7 and from there
eliminated with the help of the flowing coolant. Secondly, the
major portion of the heat due to energy losses that arises in the
single windings is emitted through the copper blocks 6 to the
cooling pipe 7 and the coolant flowing through it. Thirdly, the
heat due to energy losses that forms in the lamina bundle is
eliminated through the lamina bundle cooling, which contributes
thereby to a small part of the cooling of the single windings.
Finally, it should also be mentioned that the electromagnetic
groove transverse field produces eddy currents in the copper blocks
6 serving as heat-elimination devices, so that the blocks act in an
advantageous manner also as amortisseur windings. The effect of the
copper blocks 6 in this respect can be regulated advantageously by
cutting slits of various depths in them; their heat elimination
capacity is not significantly affected by this.
Many changes and modifications in the above described embodiment of
the invention can be carried out without departing from the scope
thereof. Accordingly, that scope is intended to be limited only by
the scope of the appended claims.
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