Design of a brushless DC permanent-magnet generator for use in micro-wind turbine applications

This paper deals with the optimal design of a direct-driven brushless DC permanent-magnet (BLDCPM) generator over a long-term wind speed cycle operation. Such a large wind speed profile causes long processing time in the search of the optimal solution, therefore a simplification method of the profile based on an original barycenter method is proposed and applied to the power losses computation of the wind energy system. As a result, the optimization methodology relies on two modeling levels different in simulation time and approach and is based on a constrained mono-objective problem with adequate optimization strategy and algorithm that aims at reducing the global system power losses for the given wind speed profile while finding the optimal geometrical and electrical features of the BLDCPM wind generator.