Affiliations: [a] College of Electrical Engineering & New Energy, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, China | [b] Hubei Key Laboratory of Cascaded Hydropower Stations Operation & Control, China Three Gorges University, Yichang, Hubei, China | [c] Department of Instrumental and Electrical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China | [d] State Grid Yiling Power Supply Company, Yichang, Hubei, China
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Corresponding author: Lantao Huang, Department of Instrumental and Electrical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China. E-mail: lantaohuang@xmu.edu.cn
Abstract: The long-life driving coil is the prerequisite for electromagnetic forming industrial application. Up to date, the temperature rise is one of the major factors that restrain its working life. For the purpose of reducing the temperature rise of the driving coil, this paper proposes a new coupled cooling method, in which an extra cooling coil is placed on one side of the driving coil, then the Joule heating is coupledly transferred by delaying the breakover control of the driving coil. To achieve this purpose, a finite element simulation model of Electrical Circuit- Electromagnetic Field-Thermal Coupling in the plates setting of the electromagnetic forming is established, after which the influence rules of coil turns, cross-sectional area and materials of cooling coil on temperature rise are analyzed. Then, this paper also establishes a coupled cooling circuit model, in which the influence of cooling coil structure parameters on the Joule heating of driving coil is analyzed. Furthermore, Simulation results show that effective Joule heating transfer can be reached by the best optimization scheme of the cooling driving coil. Specifically, the average temperature rise reduces by 13 degrees, namely 22.8% by using this new method.
Keywords: Electromagnetic forming, driving coil, temperature rise, Joule heating
