Comparative Investigation of High Temperature Superconducting Linear Flux-Switching Motor and High Temperature Superconducting Linear Switched Reluctance Motor for Urban Railway Transit

Both Linear Switched Reluctance Motor (LSRM) and Linear Flux-Switching Motor (LFSM) have the merits of none-adhesive thrust force and simple and robust secondary structures. Therefore, LSRM and LFSM are quite suitable for applications such as vertical lifting, wave power generation and urban railway transit. To further improve the power density of them, the field windings of LFSM and DC windings of LSRM can be replaced with High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) coils, and thus forming High Temperature Superconducting Linear Flux-Switching Motor (HTS-LFSM) and High Temperature Superconducting Linear Switched Reluctance Motor (HTS-LSRM). Despite their similar structure, they have different working principles and electromagnetic performances. To reveal their merits and drawbacks for urban railway transit system, a comparative investigation is conducted in this paper using Finite Element Method (FEM).