INDUCTION MOTOR FAULT DIAGNOSIS USING FUZZY DECISION SYSTEM The main objective of this project is to detect and

diagnose Induction motor faults using fuzzy logic principles. Induction motors are most widely used electrical apparatus in modern industrial application due to their reliability, low cost and high performance. Hence detection and diagnosis and diagnosis of such faults is very essential for protection of induction motors against failures and permanent damages. In recent years, the monitoring and fault detection of electrical motors have moved to artificial intelligent techniques from traditional methods. Such techniques require a minimum of intelligent configuration, since no detailed analysis of fault mechanism is necessary and no modeling required. The healthy state of Induction motor are indicated by associated current and voltage parameters.

And therefore this Fuzzy approach monitors current and voltage for diagnosis under different operating condition. In contrast to other conventional methods, this project would reduce time and energy required. This method can be extended to any type of electrical motors, big or small. This project describes the application of fuzzy logic approach to the diagnosis of induction motor. A fuzzy logicbased system allows the transformation of heuristic terms into numerical values via fuzzy rules and membership functions.

When conducting fault diagnosis, several situations may occur in which an object is not obviously good or bad, but may fall in between. Considering that the interpretation of the condition of the induction motor as a fuzzy concept, fuzzy logic based diagnosis approach can be developed which enables decision making to be made based on vague information.

Fuzzy logic control of Temperature and level control

Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Fuzzy logic control of Temperature and level control Automation system vendors, universities, research centers and the process industry continually strive to invent new and better methods to keep processes under control. Boiler plays an important role in power generation units and its control is very critical in many applications. In present situation conventional PID control is being implemented for this purpose. These conventional controllers in power plants are not very stable when there are fluctuations and, in particular, there is an emergency occurring. Continuous processes in power plant and power station are complex systems characterized by nonlinearity, uncertainty and load disturbances. The characteristics of a power plant system change significantly between heavy and light loading conditions. Applying of traditional control methods encounter great difficulties while the process working condition changes within a large operation range. So many studied control methods like expert systems, fuzzy logic control, neural networks and knowledge-based systems, termed Intelligent Control have become common additions to conventional Proportional Integral Derivative (PID)-type control methods in the process industry. This project discusses the possibilities and suitability of an intelligent control method such as fuzzy logic control in controlling and managing combustion performance of an Industrial boiler. This controller demonstrated superiority in controlling the temperature and water level of the boiler. In this project, a model with fuzzy control has been implemented for temperature and level control. The model consists of a process tank along with a reservoir together with a pump and heater connected with it. This heater and pump are controlled using fuzzy logic and the temperature and level conditions are maintained. The simulation of fuzzy logic contrlloller is implemented using matlab fuzzy toolbox

Improving Power factor of an Induction motor drive using Labview

Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Improving Power factor of an Induction motor drive using Labview Virtual instrumentation deals with acquiring, analysing and presenting data. It offers more flexibility than traditional instruments and proves to be ideal for signal processing and simulation. It is popularly used due to its graphical nature, versatility and easy programmability. The program can be changed at any point of time according to the needs of the user.

A project which deals with the power factor determination and correction of a lagging power factor load such as Induction motor drive is discussed here. A three phase Induction motor is used as the load which normally draws lagging current. The current and voltage waveforms are obtained through current and potential transformers from the line side respectively. The sinusoidal waveform is given to zero crossing detector to produce square waveform which is then given to X-Or gate. This produces a signal which is nothing but the difference of the phase angle between current and voltage waveforms. The signal is then fed to the PC using DAQ (Data Acquisition) card. After acquiring the signal, the power factor is calculated using Lab view software and depending on whether leading or lagging, a pulse is generated. This pulse is used through DAQ card to correct the capacitance value on the line in order to improve the power factor