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Abstract - Previous theoretical and laboratory research has external resistance in one of the lines, and the motor load can
demonstrated the utility of using voltage mismatch predictors for be varied by suitable means and the voltages and currents can
online condition monitoring of induction motor stator windings. be recorded. Next, the external resistance can be inserted in
However, the use of this monitoring system in a mining or other another line and the process can be repeated. In a field
industry application depends upon the ability to determine motor application, the training process cannot be controlled in the
impedance parameters prior to the onset of winding same fashion as in the laboratory. It may be impractical or
deterioration. Since these impedance parameters depend upon impossible to insert an external resistance in the lines to create
the motor speed, such evaluations require the collection of the necessary voltage unbalance. Motor speed will be a
voltage and current data over a range of operating speeds. In
function of the application and cannot be controlled, and in
addition, a sufficient amount of natural or created voltage
come cases, measuring motor speed may be problematic.
unbalance is required in order to evaluate these parameters. The
investigation presented in this paper uses duplicate data- The investigation presented in this paper addresses the
collection and evaluation setups in both an operating mine and in issues associated with establishing the impedance matrix in an
the laboratory in order to obtain a better understanding of the industrial setting. We begin with a brief description of the
voltage variations that are required for determination of the voltage mismatch detectors. Subsequently, a description of the
motor impedance parameters. Results are then related to the laboratory and field efforts is presented, followed by the results
feasibility of applying voltage mismatch condition-monitoring
of these studies and plans for future work.
procedures in an operating mine.
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was run at 3350 rpm with a balanced voltage supply for 30
minutes to allow it to reach a steady operating temperature.
Tests were conducted immediately after the warm-up period.
Motor speed was varied from 3350 rpm to 3495 rpm in 5-rpm
increments (to the extent possible). The entire series of tests
took less than one hour to conduct, and no noticeable
additional heating due to the unbalance was noticed, although
some heating probably did occur.
The graphs given in Figs. 1-4 show the four terms of the
impedance matrix for the speed range tested. Because of the
large differences in scale, they have been shown on separate
graphs to make it easier to observe changes in the values.
Three of the impedance values, z11, z21, and z22 have very
consistent behavior; z11 increases with decreasing load, as
expected; z22 is nearly constant, as expected; and z21 shows a
very gradual increase.
Unfortunately, z12 is poorly behaved. The reason for this
becomes evident if Cramers Rule is applied to the set of Figure 2. Real and imaginary components of z12 as a function of speed
equations that are used to calculate z11 and z12. When this is for the ULM.
done, the value of the numerator when determining z12 is the
difference between two large, nearly equal numbers, Ia1Va1 The second series of laboratory tests was designed to
and Ia1Va1. (Unprimed and primed values are used to investigate the effects of voltage unbalance difference between
distinguish the two data sets that are used in the determination a pair of measurements on the calculated value of the motor
of the impedance matrix.) Thus any small measurement error impedance parameters. For these tests, the motor speed was
will cause a large change in the very small value of z12 leading maintained at 3425 rpm and a voltage unbalance difference,
to instability in this calculation. (Recall that in a perfectly VUD, was defined as the magnitude of the quantity
balanced system, the off-diagonal terms would be equal to
V a 2 V a' 2
zero; in a typical system, they should be close to zero.) It VUD = ( 6)
therefore seems clear that this impedance cannot be used in a V a1 V a'1
practical system where some measurement inaccuracies must in percent. The value of the resistance inserted in line A or B
be expected. Fortunately, the dominance of z11 is such that no was varied such that the magnitude of this voltage unbalance
significant error should be introduced if z12 is assumed to be difference assumed values between 3.5% and 0.2%. The
small compared to z11 when determining the remaining motor lowest value of 0.2% was limited by the natural unbalance that
impedances and the voltage mismatches. existed in the laboratory supply system.
Figure 1. Real and imaginary components of z11 as a function of speed Figure 3. Real and imaginary components of z21 as a function of speed
for the ULM. for the ULM.
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Figure 4. Real and imaginary components of z22 as a function of speed Figure 6. Real and imaginary components of z21 as a function of
for the ULM. voltage unbalance difference for the ULM operating at 3425 rpm.
Figure 5. Real and imaginary components of z11 as a function of Figure 7. Real and imaginary components of z22 as a function of
voltage unbalance difference for the ULM operating at 3425 rpm. voltage unbalance difference for the ULM operating at 3425 rpm.
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IV. FIELD INVESTIGATION
A. Training Procedure
During the field effort, data files were collected at an
underground limestone mine using a system that was identical
to the one used in the laboratory. This allowed for a
comparison of the quality of data between laboratory and the
operating mine and also provided an opportunity to debug the
data collection system in the laboratory if problems were
encountered in the mine. The motor selected for the study was
a 150 hp conveyor belt drive motor that transported rock from
the mines primary crusher. The potential transformers and
current transformers were located at the secondary of a
12,470:480V transformer that supplied the motor and crusher.
The data acquisition system was set up approximately six feet
from the transformer enclosure. The conveyor motor was
located approximately 200 feet from the transformer, and
required 230 feet of signal wire to reach the data collection
system. Figure 8 shows the motor and the optical speed
(a) Laboratory speed signal.
sensor.
A total of 120 files were collected over a three week
period, using the same sampling parameters as those used in
the laboratory. The observed voltage unbalance factor was
less than 0.5% for all of the files recorded. During the data
collection process, it was observed that the motor operating
speed was relatively narrow, ranging from 1787 to 1798 rpm,
indicating that this motor was probably oversized for this
application. We also observed that the tachometer signal had
significantly more noise than the signal recorded in the
laboratory, as illustrated in Figure 9. This was problematic
because the z11 impedance parameter is very sensitive to
changes in speed. During these tests, the magnitude of the
zero-sequence current was monitored and was less than 0.3 A,
justifying the assumption of (4) and (5).
An algorithm was developed in which pairs of files were
matched to compute the impedance parameters. Because of
the uncertainty in the speed measurements, files were matched
primarily on the basis of positive sequence impedance, and the (b) Mine-site speed signal.
speed was computed as the average of the two measurements.
Figure 9. Sample of tachometer speed signals.
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Real Real
Imaginary Imaginary
Figure 10. Real and imaginary components of z11 as a function of Figure 12. Real and imaginary components of z22 as a function of
speed for the 150hp conveyor motor. speed for the 150hp conveyor motor.
in the laboratory at higher levels of unbalance; however, clear Figure 13 illustrates the results of this process. The
trends were still established. Another difference is that z21 of mismatch values are the magnitudes of the vector difference
the conveyor was approximately constant while z21 for the between the calculated and measured voltage values. Figure 13
ULM exhibited a slight increase with increasing speed. (a) shows that the positive sequence voltage mismatch is less
than 12 V in all cases, with a mean value of 6.7 V. These
B. Condition Monitoring values represent 4.33% and 2.42%, respectively, of the rated
Once the impedance parameters were determined, a line-to-neutral voltage of this motor. The plot also shows that
simulated health-monitoring procedure was conducted. This the mismatches are fairly uniform over the measured speed
procedure consisted of randomly selecting 15 files (that were range. This result is encouraging because of the sensitivity of
not used in the training process) over the measured speed range z11 to speed, especially near synchronous speed. Figure 13 (b)
and computing the positive and negative sequence voltage shows the negative sequence voltage mismatch values are all
mismatches. Because these files were collected during the less than 0.5 V with a mean mismatch value of 0.27 V.
same time period as those used for training, the mismatch Although these mismatches are much smaller than their
values should be small and representative of what would be positive sequence counterparts, they represent a larger fraction
expected for condition monitoring of a healthy motor. of the measured negative sequence voltage compared with the
positive sequence values. For example, the average measured
negative sequence voltage was approximately 1.2 V, so the
average mismatch is approximately 23% of the average
observed negative sequence voltage. This is expected because
Real the negative sequence values are much smaller than the
positive sequence values and are more difficult to measure
accurately.
Because it is not possible to simulate motor deterioration in
this setting and there was no apparent deterioration or failure
that occurred during the monitoring period, it was not possible
to predict the magnitude of the change in the mismatch
predictors with deterioration as compared to random variations
Imaginary for the healthy motor. However, some insight into expected
performance can be obtained by comparing these results with
results of simulated deterioration tests previously conducted on
the ULM. Fig. 14 is a repeat of Fig. 2 in [14] showing the
change in the voltage mismatch detectors with increasing
deterioration current for healthy operation and for increasing
levels of simulated deterioration. In this figure, we observe a
non-deteriorated Va1 mismatch of approximately 2.0 V or
approximately 1.75% of the rated line-to-neutral voltage
Figure 11. Real and imaginary components of z21 as a function of speed compared with the mine site mean of 6.7 V (2.42% of rated)
for the 150hp conveyor motor.
and maximum value of 12 V (4.33% of rated). The ULM non-
deteriorated Va2 mismatch is approximately 0.2 V compared
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25
Voltage Unbalance = 5.2%
n = 3303 rpm
20 Ia2 Measured x 10
15
Va2 Mismatch Calculated x 10
5
Va1 Mismatch Measured
C. Implementation Issues
The objectives of this study were to obtain a better
understanding of the voltage variations that are required to
develop the motor impedance parameters, and to establish
whether it is feasible to conduct this process in an industrial
setting.
The results of the field study are encouraging, especially
when considering the conditions under which they were
conducted. For example, the data collection process was
conducted manually, in which an operator sat at the data
collection system and triggered the acquisition process. This
was appropriate for this study because it allowed the operator
to monitor the data collection process and deal with any
unforeseen problems. However, compared with an automated
system, it limited the number of opportunities for collecting
files in which the voltage unbalance difference is large enough
to establish the impedance parameters with a high degree of
accuracy. When fully implemented, an automated process
(b) Negative sequence voltage mismatch. could be conducted almost continuously over several weeks
Figure 13. Positive and negative sequence voltage mismatch values for
thereby providing better estimates of the impedance
the 150 hp conveyor motor. parameters.
Another difficulty that is more problematic in an industrial
with the mine site mean and maximum mismatch values of application is the determination of motor speed. For this study,
0.27 V and 0.5 V, respectively. an optical tachometer was used because it was accurate,
These comparisons indicate that the field site results for the convenient to use, and it worked well in the laboratory.
healthy motor are similar to the laboratory study previously However, in the mine environment, the tachometer signal was
conducted, although the non-deteriorated mismatches are noisy, making it difficult to accurately measure motor speed.
somewhat larger. It is anticipated that other industrial sites This hampered the determination of the impedance parameters
would exhibit similar results. These results also indicate the because pairs of files had to be matched primarily on the basis
need for using trends in the mismatch values rather than simply of positive sequence impedance and the speed was determined
establishing a threshold value. A major point of interest from by averaging the values of two files. It is expected that similar
Figure 14 is that in percentage terms, the maximum positive noise problems would be encountered at other locations, or that
and negative sequence voltage mismatches observed for the it may simply be impractical to mount a tachometer.
healthy motor in the mine tests are exceeded in the ULM when There are alternatives to using a tachometer for measuring
the deterioration current is limited to approximately 5% of the speed. One technique is to obtain the motor running speed
short circuit value. This is a very low level of deterioration, from analysis of the amplitude spectrum of the line current.
and at this, as well as higher simulated levels of deterioration, However, this approach requires a relatively long record length
no abnormal operation of the ULM was observed. (approximately 30-50 seconds) to obtain sufficient resolution in
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