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Preface
This thesis is submitted to the Faculty of Engineering and Science at Aalborg University in partial
fulfilment of the requirements for the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering.
The project was financed jointly by Danish Energy Agency, Danfoss A/S and Grundfos A/S. The
project has been followed by two supervisors: Associate Professor Andrew Ewen Ritchie and
Associate Professor Peter Omand Rasmussen, both of the Institute of Energy Technology (IET), at
Aalborg University. Finn Jensen (Danfoss A/S) was in the steering group until June 2001, whilst
Flemming Buus Bendixen (Grundfos A/S) followed the project until year 2003. I would like to
thank them all for their guidance and moral support during and after this work.
Special thanks to Dr. Jasmin Corda, of the School of Engineering, at University of Leeds for being
closely involved in the development of the analytical model of Shark Switched Reluctance
Machine, during the three months spent at University of Leeds, United Kingdom. I would like to
acknowledge the support provided by Steven Watkins, University of Leeds, for providing a
comprehensible documentation of the Switched Reluctance Machine by investing passion in
developing the Brivit database.
My thanks to Associate Professor Orla Nielsen and to Bjarne Kristensen for their patience and
extremely good expertise during the manufacturing of the cylindrical and Shark air gap Switched
Reluctance Motors and their assistance during the experimental work reported in this thesis.
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