Impact of Motor Stator Winding Faults on Motor Differential-mode Impedance and Mode Transformation

Motor impedance and mode transformation have significant effects on the electromagnetic interference(EMI)generated in motor drive systems.Stator winding faults commonly cause motor failure;however,in their early stages,they may not affect the short-term operation of the motor.To date,EMI noise under the influence of premature stator winding faults has not been adequately studied,particularly the differential-mode(DM)noise due to the common-mode(CM)-to-DM transformation.This study investigates and quantifies the influence of stator winding faults on the motor DM impedance and mode transformation.First,the transmission line model of an induction motor is described based on the scattering(S)parameter measurements of each phase of the motor.It offers the flexibility to emulate different types of stator winding faults at specific locations and various severities,such that the impacts of the faults on the motor DM impedance can be easily estimated.Second,a test setup is proposed to quantify the CM-to-DM transformation due to the stator winding faults.The findings of this study reveal that even the early stages of stator winding faults can result in significant changes in the DM noise.

GENERATOR VIBRATION FAULT DIAGNOSIS METHOD BASED ON ROTOR VIBRATION AND STATOR WINDING PARALLEL BRANCHES CIRCULATING CURRENT CHARACTERISTICS

Rotor vibration characteristics are first analyzed, which are that the rotor vibration of fundamental frequency will increase due to rotor winding inter-turn short circuit fault, air-gap dynamic eccentricity fault, or imbalance fault, and the vibration of the second frequency will increase when the air-gap static eccentricity fault occurs. Next, the characteristics of the stator winding parallel branches circulating current are analyzed, which are that the second harmonics circulating current will increase when the rotor winding inter-turn short circuit fault occurs, and the fundamental circulating current will increase when the air-gap eccentricity fault occurs, neither being strongly affected by the imbalance fault. Considering the differences of the rotor vibration and circulating current characteristics caused by different rotor faults, a method of generator vibration fault diagnosis, based on rotor vibration and circulating current characteristics, is developed. Finally, the rotor vibration and circulating current of a type SDF-9 generator is measured in the laboratory to verify the theoretical analysis presented above.

Fault Detection and Identification Using Deep Learning Algorithms in Induction Motors

Owing to the 4.0 industrial revolution condition monitoring maintenance is widely accepted as a useful approach to avoiding plant disturbances and shutdown.Recently,Motor Current Signature Analysis(MCSA)is widely reported as a condition monitoring technique in the detection and identification of individual andmultiple Induction Motor(IM)faults.However,checking the fault detection and classification with deep learning models and its comparison among them selves or conventional approaches is rarely reported in the literature.Therefore,in this work,wepresent the detection and identification of induction motor faults with MCSA and three Deep Learning(DL)models namely MLP,LSTM,and 1D-CNN.Initially,we have developed the model of Squirrel Cage induction motor in MATLAB and simulated it for single phasing and stator winding faults(SWF)using Fast Fourier Transform(FFT),Short Time Fourier Transform(STFT),and Continuous Wavelet Transform(CWT)to detect and identify the healthy and unhealthy conditions with phase to ground,single phasing and in multiple fault conditions using Motor Current Signature Analysis.The faults impact on stator current is presented in the time and frequency domain(i.e.,power spectrum).The simulation results show that the scalogram has shown good results in time-frequency analysis for fault and showing its impact on the energy of current during individual fault and multiple fault conditions.This is further investigated with three deep learning models(i.e.,MLP,LSTM,and 1D-CNN)for checking the fault detection and identification(i.e.,classification)improvement in a three-phase induction motor.By simulating the three-phase induction motor in various healthy and unhealthy conditions in MATLAB,we have collected current signature data in the time domain,labeled them accordingly and created the 50 thousand samples dataset for DL models.All the DL models are trained and validated with a suitable number of architecture layers.By simulation,the multiclass confusion matrix,precision,recall,and F1-score are obtained in several conditions.The result shows that the stator current signature of the motor can be used to detect individual and multiple faults.Moreover,deep learning models can efficiently classify the induction motor faults based on time-domain data of the stator current signature.In deep learning(DL)models,the LSTM has shown better accuracy among all other three models.These results show that employing deep learning in fault detection and identification of induction motors can be very useful in predictive maintenance to avoid shutdown and production cycle stoppage in the industry.

A New Diagnostic Method for Winding Short-Circuit Fault for SRM Based on Symmetrical Component Analysis

Winding short-circuit is one of the more common faults in switched reluctance motors(SRM).This paper takes an in-depth look at winding short-circuit.The characteristic of non-sinusoidal intermittent single phase current,fundamental components are extracted to reconstruct four phase symmetrical currents based on spectrum analysis of phase currents.The method of symmetrical component is used to calculate positive and negative sequence components of reconstructed currents,where then the ratio between positive and negative sequence component is seen as a fault feature and the diagnostic criterion is proposed.The simulation and experimental results are presented to confirm the implementation of the proposed method.

Research on the protection coordination of permanent magnet synchronous generator based wind farms with low voltage ride through capability

To coordinate the protection of PMSG(permanent magnet synchronous generator),collector circuits and outgoing lines,a comprehensive and improved protection method of PMSG based wind farms with LVRT(low voltage ride through)capability is proposed.The proposed method includes adding a short time delay to the collector network current protection zone I and a directional protective relaying to the collector network protection,installing grounding transformers and zero sequence current protection,and generator low-voltage protection action improvement.A LVRT scheme consisting of variable resistance dumping circuit,grid side dynamic reactive power control and reactive power compensation control is proposed.The fault characteristics of PMSG based wind farms are analyzed,and a PMSG based wind farm in Dabancheng,Xinjiang,is used as an example to analyze typical wind farm protection configuration,the setting values considering LVRT requirements,and the coordination problems.Finally,an improved wind farm protection coordination methodology is proposed and its validity is verified by simulation.