The magnetic refrigeration technology is a promising alternative technology to the production of cold. The work carried out focuses on the technology of magnetic refrigeration, a state of the art of this emerging technology has also been done. A magnetocaloric regenerator is placed in the air gap of the motor. It is necessary to design a motor with an air gap wide enough and where the induction will be as high as possible in order to insert the magnetocaloric regenerator. The regenerator is a hollow cylinder whose dimensions are adapted to the air gap of the synchronous machine. It is intended to contain the magnetocaloric material. The design of the electric motor is made in order to obtain a maximal variation of induction ΔB in the air gap and a temperature difference ΔT as large as possible, improving the magnetocaloric performance of the prototype. The profile of induction should also be as close as possible to a rectangular signal. The realization of the demonstrator based on the finite element studies is the first step towards the realization of integrated magnetic refrigerator which can be housed in an automobile. Finally, and in order to improve the performance of our device, an optimization of the electromagnetic inductor was carried out with a finite element model coupled to an optimizationalgorithm.
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