scholarly journals Short Circuit and Broken Rotor Faults Severity Discrimination in Induction Machines Using Non-invasive Optical Fiber Technology

Energies ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 577
Author(s):  
Belema P. Alalibo ◽  
Bing Ji ◽  
Wenping Cao

Multiple techniques continue to be simultaneously utilized in the condition monitoring and fault detection of electric machines, as there is still no single technique that provides an all-round solution to fault finding in these machines. Having various machine fault-detection techniques is useful in allowing the ability to combine two or more in a manner that will provide a more comprehensive application-dependent condition-monitoring solution; especially, given the increasing role these machines are expected to play in man’s transition to a more sustainable environment, where many more electric machines will be required. This paper presents a novel non-invasive optical fiber using a stray flux technique for the condition monitoring and fault detection of induction machines. A giant magnetostrictive transducer, made of terfenol-D, was bonded onto a fiber Bragg grating, to form a composite FBG-T sensor, which utilizes the machines’ stray flux to determine the internal condition of the machine. Three machine conditions were investigated: healthy, broken rotor, and short circuit inter-turn fault. A tri-axial auto-data-logging flux meter was used to obtain stray magnetic flux measurements, and the numerical results obtained with LabView were analyzed in MATLAB. The optimal positioning and sensitivity of the FBG-T sensor were found to be transverse and 19.3810 pm/μT, respectively. The experimental results showed that the FBG-T sensor accurately distinguished each of the three machine conditions using a different order of magnitude of Bragg wavelength shifts, with the most severe fault reaching wavelength shifts of hundreds of picometres (pm) compared to the healthy and broken rotor conditions, which were in the low-to-mid-hundred and high-hundred picometre (pm) range, respectively. A fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis, performed on the measured stray flux, revealed that the spectral content of the stray flux affected the magnetostrictive behavior of the magnetic dipoles of the terfenol-D transducer, which translated into strain on the fiber gratings.

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 159-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yacine Maanani ◽  
Arezki Menacer

The purpose of this paper is the inter-turn short circuit fault Modeling and detection for the sensorless input-output linearization control of the permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) based on the Extended Kalman Filter observer (EKF). The fault detection procedures are based through the estimation of the stator resistance variation by the Extended Kalman Filter observer and the Fast Fourier Transformer (FFT) for the stationary state, and the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) analysis of the electrical characteristics of the PMSM, for the non-stationary state. However, the FFT spectral analysis and the DWT is a useful solution to ensure that the variation of the stator resistance estimation is caused by the inter-turn short circuit fault. The effectiveness of the sensorless control and the fault detection techniques are presented in a simulation in MATLAB/Simulink environment.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
İlker Şahin ◽  
Ozan Keysan

<p>In this paper, a novel and non-invasive stator inter-turn short circuit (ITSC) online detection method is presented for an induction machine (IM), driven by a two-level voltage source inverter (2L-VSI) via finite control set model predictive control (FCS-MPC). The main idea of the proposed method is to utilize the controller itself as an observer: under the presence of a fault, the distribution of inverter switching states significantly deviates from the original balanced case. Therefore, by inspecting the inverter switching vectors, which are the outcomes of the FCS-MPC routine's online optimization procedure, a stator fault can be detected efficiently. It is observed that both the zero-vector allocation over the complex plane and the allocation among the active vectors are influenced by the presence of a stator short-circuit fault. The proposed fault detection strategy introduces little to no extra burden for processor and memory. Experimental results verify the proposed method, and inter-turn short circuits of two and three turns are confidently detected and located for a 500 W, two-pole IM.</p>


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
İlker Şahin ◽  
Ozan Keysan

<p>In this paper, a novel and non-invasive stator inter-turn short circuit (ITSC) online detection method is presented for an induction machine (IM), driven by a two-level voltage source inverter (2L-VSI) via finite control set model predictive control (FCS-MPC). The main idea of the proposed method is to utilize the controller itself as an observer: under the presence of a fault, the distribution of inverter switching states significantly deviates from the original balanced case. Therefore, by inspecting the inverter switching vectors, which are the outcomes of the FCS-MPC routine's online optimization procedure, a stator fault can be detected efficiently. It is observed that both the zero-vector allocation over the complex plane and the allocation among the active vectors are influenced by the presence of a stator short-circuit fault. The proposed fault detection strategy introduces little to no extra burden for processor and memory. Experimental results verify the proposed method, and inter-turn short circuits of two and three turns are confidently detected and located for a 500 W, two-pole IM.</p>


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 2313
Author(s):  
Miftah Irhoumah ◽  
Remus Pusca ◽  
Eric Lefèvre ◽  
David Mercier ◽  
Raphael Romary

The aim of this paper is to detect a stator inter-turn short circuit in a synchronous machine through the analysis of the external magnetic field measured by external flux sensors. The paper exploits a methodology previously developed, based on the analysis of the behavior with load variation of sensitive spectral lines issued from two flux sensors positioned at 180° from each other around the machine. Further developments to improve this method were made, in which more than two flux sensors were used to keep a good sensitivity for stator fault detection. The method is based on the Pearson correlation coefficient calculated from sensitive spectral lines at different load operating conditions. Fusion information with belief function is then applied to the correlation coefficients, which enable the detection of an incipient fault in any phase of the machine. The method has the advantage to be fully non-invasive and does not require knowledge of the healthy state.


IEEE Access ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 25055-25068 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Xu ◽  
Changhua Hu ◽  
Feng Yang ◽  
Shyh-Hao Kuo ◽  
Chi-Keong Goh ◽  
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