Technologies, Research, and Innovation (including case studies) Topic 1: Electric motors Topic 2: Emerging motor technologies

This paper presents a back-to-back facility and the testing procedures aiming to obtain the optimum control maps of the synchronous reluctance machine avoiding the energy-consuming test sessions typically carried out with a purely dissipative braking bench. The tested machines are 3kW synchronous reluctance machines designed for industrial applications. Maximum torque per ampere, maximum torque per voltage, maximum power factor, and maximum efficiency maps are detected. The results are compared to those of a purely dissipative bench.