1. ELEMETS OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EDDY CURRENT LOSSES
ACTIVE LEARNING ASSIGNMENT
F.Y. COMPUTER ENGINEERING
MADE BY ID. NO. ENROLL. NO.
KRUNAL PARMAR 13BECEG
VEDANT JOSHI 13BECEM
SIDDHARTH PATEL 13BECEN
KEYUR RANA 13BECEG

2. EDDY CURRENTS
Eddy currents are induced electrical currents that flow in a circular path.
They get their name from “eddies” that are formed when a liquid or gas flows in a circular path around obstacles when conditions are right.

3. EDDY CURRENTS
Test Probe
Eddy Currents

4. EDDY CURRENTS
In order to generate eddy currents for an inspection a “probe” is used. Inside the probe is a length of electrical conductor which is formed into a coil.

5. EDDY CURRENTS
Alternating current is allowed to flow in the coil at any frequency.

6. EDDY CURRENTS
A dynamic expanding and collapsing magnetic field forms in and around the coil as the alternating current flows through the coil.

7. EDDY CURRENTS
When an electrically conductive material is placed in the coil’s dynamic magnetic field electromagnetic, induction will occur and eddy currents will be induced in the material.

8. EDDY CURRENTS
Eddy currents flowing in the material will generate their own “secondary” magnetic field which will oppose the coil’s “primary” magnetic field.

9. EDDY CURRENTS
This entire electromagnetic induction process to produce eddy currents may occur from several hundred to several million times each second depending upon the frequency.

10. EDDY CURRENT LOSSES
When a conductor, such as armature core of a generator, is either moved to a magnetic field or is present in a magnetic field of alternating current, then according to Faraday’s law of electromagnetic induction, emfs are induced in the coil.
Due to these emfs, currents are induced in it. These currents are called eddy currents.

11. EDDY CURRENT LOSSES
The figure shows the eddy currents induced in an armature core that is a solid piece of soft iron.

12. EDDY CURRENT LOSSES
The power dissipated in the form of heat, as a result of the eddy currents, is considered a loss.
Due to the eddy currents ‘Ie’, the conductor becomes hot since a heat energy ‘Ie2R’ is developed, where R is the resistance of the path through which the currents flow.
This ‘Ie2R’ loss is called EDDY CURRENT LOSS.

13. EDDY CURRENT LOSSES
The eddy current loss is given by We=KBm2f2t2V watt Where, K = constant f = frequency of reversal of magnetism t = thickness of lamination in m Bm = Maximum Flux Density V = Volume of the core

14. REDUCING EDDY CURRENT LOSSES
It is almost impossible to reduce the iron losses completely; however these can be reduced to a certain extent by
Using Laminated Cores
Using Material Of High Resistivity

15. REDUCING EDDY CURRENT LOSSES Using Laminated Cores
Thin, laminated strips of metal are used in the construction of power transformers and motors rather than making them out of one solid piece of metal.
The thin strips are separated by insulating glue, which confines the eddy currents to the strips.

16. REDUCING EDDY CURRENT LOSSES Using Laminated Cores
The figure shows a soft iron core of the same size, but made up of several small pieces insulated from each other. This process is called lamination.

17. REDUCING EDDY CURRENT LOSSES Using Laminated Cores
This arrangement reduces the area of each section and as a result the induced emf induced also decreases,
The area through which the eddy currents are now made flow reduces, thus increasing the resistance offered to these currents.

18. REDUCING EDDY CURRENT LOSSES Using Laminated Cores
The currents in each piece of the laminated core are considerably less than in the solid core because the resistance of the pieces is much higher.
The currents in the individual pieces of the laminated core are so small that the sum of the individual currents is much less than the total of eddy currents in the solid iron core.

19. REDUCING EDDY CURRENT LOSSES Using Material Having High Resistivity
Another method to reduce eddy current losses is to use a magnetic material having high resistivity. Eg : Silicon steel.
Thus resistance offered to the flow of these currents will be more and the flow of these currents will be less.

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