Direct Drive Train Consultancy

News: 

2024: 

R&D A/S issued a video about the LORC 25 MW test bench. Go to 10 minutes in the video to get some details of the motor design: 

Belt Generators entered membership of Energy Cluster Denmark to get new partners for design and production of direct drive azipod motors and wind turbine generators. Large steel machinery companies are in particular fitted for this partnership.

The EC Power 30 kW generator is now under assembly and soon ready for test. Belt Generators assisted with design and analyses. The generator is driven by a gas combustion motor. 

2023: 

Efforts are made to include alternative materials to the design using aluminum for coils and ferrite magnets. The basic design is still using copper concentrated coils and neodynium magnets, but aluminum and ferrite are optional to save costs. 

Business Representative for Ganz Electric on a non-exclusive contract for 2023. 

Ganz Electric manufactures large generators and motors. Belt Generators shall assist in sales and design.

Furthermore Ganz Electric manufactures high voltage transformers. 

2022:

A new development is prepared for a HVDC transformer to feed energy from the wind turbine into a HVDC grid on offshore installation. The development is done in cooperation with a university and a converter company. A wind turbine OEM is welcome as well.

A 30 kW permanent magnet generator has been analyzed for a customer for improvements.

The 10 MW design has been improved to a high efficiency at the whole torque range >98%. The choice of material is widened to include aluminum to the coils, ferrite permanent magnets and special high grade lamination. The default materials are neodymium magnets and copper wire, which are subject to cost fluctuations for the raw materials this year. 

2021

A new brochure has been published and is available on request.

Analyses are in progress for improvement of the 10 MW design, first of all to achive a high efficiency at a marginal extra cost. It enables to reduce the number of turbines with 2-3 turbines in an offshore park with 100 units and still have the same annual energy production. A presentation is available on request.

See the photo of the 25 MW motor at Odense Port, Lindø.

2020

The consultancy for R&D A/S has ended by January 31 after 12 months with the 25 MW motor design based on the 10 MW design from 2018. See R&D A/S

Belt Generators takes up the 10 MW generator development from 2018 again with cost effective parts as aluminum winding and ferrite magnets and other innovative developments.

2018

A new 10 MW second generation design is developed and was finished in January 2019. The design is modular and made in sections for logistic purposes. Both magnetical, thermal and mechanical issues are handled in the new lean design. The design is a traditional 2nd generation construction having radial air gap, concentrated coils and permanent magnetization. Cooling is provided by forced air combined with surface cooling to ambient air. Both inner and outer rotors are handled. Essential IPR details are patent pending.

The design is modular with segmentation, so that the generator parts are easy transportable in containers from various sub-suppliers to assembly sites at harbors for shipping out on vessels. Furthermore the stator segments fit into most existing VPI tanks.

The efficiency is high at rated power with 95% and higher at partial loads.

The design is scale-able to other power and torque ratings. More converter units are connected independently and be switched off, when faulted without reduction of power for the other units

The objective of the new development is to create a simple, lean, reliable and cost effective design.

The presentation is available here: