Application of Double Parks Vector Approach For Detection of Inter-Turn Fault in Induction Motor
Application of Double Parks Vector Approach For Detection of Inter-Turn Fault in Induction Motor
Abstract—In this paper, the double Park’s vector (DPV) cost, production revenue lost [1]. In order to avoid these losses
approach is used for the detection of inter-turn fault. This the fault needs to be detected at an incipient stage.
technique is verified on a three phase squirrel cage induction One of the commonly occurring fault in the SCIM is inter-
motor (SCIM). Wherever the inter-turn fault occurs in the SCIM,
the additional frequency components is introduced in stator turn fault [2]. In [3]–[5] different techniques for the detection
phase current. Detection of the inter-turn fault is made possible of stator winding fault and monitoring the health of SCIM
by continuous monitoring Park’s vector pattern of harmonic are reported. In [6], [7] detection of the fault using motor
frequency and fundamental component of the stator phase current signature analysis is reported. In [8] an adaptive fuzzy
currents using double Park’s vector approach. This is a new neural interface approach is used for the detection of stator
technique which is, not yet been reported in the literature. In this
analysis, the dominant harmonic and fundamental component inter-turn and bearing fault. In [9] condition of the stator
from the three phase stator currents are extracted using FFT winding is monitored using global optimization based on
of stator currents. These harmonic and fundamental component hyperbolic cross point. In [10] the insulation of the winding is
of stator currents are converted into two phase quantity using monitored by online switching transient exploitation. In [11]
Park’s vector transformation and the Park’s vector patterns are the stator winding fault is detected by continuous monitoring
plotted. As both Park’s vectors are monitored simultaneously, it
is called double Park’s vector. The Park’s vector of the harmonic of instantaneous active and reactive power signature analysis.
component is validated by the Park’s vector of the fundamental In [12]–[14] the Park’s vector approach is used for the
component of stator currents. detection of eccentricity, inter-turn and bearing faults. In [15],
[16] the extended Park’s vector approach is used for the
Keywords-Induction Motor; Inter-turn fault; FFT; Double detection of the rotor and stator faults. In [17] the Park’s
Park’s vector (DPV). vectors is used for the training of artificial neural network for
the detection of healthy and faulty condition. In [18] detection
NOMENCLATURE of the winding fault using symmetrical component is reported.
vsU , vsV , vsW Stator voltages for U , V and W phases. In [19] combination of the Hilbert transform and Park’s vector
isU , isV , isW Stator currents for U , V and W phases. approach is reported for detection of the broken rotor bar,
ZsU , ZsV , ZsW Stator impedance for U , V and W phases. bearing, eccentricity and voltage unbalanced. In [20] analyze
NsU , NsV , NsW Number of turns in stator U , V , W phases. the comparative Parks vector and symmetrical components
U1 , U2 , U3 Winding tapping fault for 5%, 10% and 15%. approach for inter-turn fault detection in transformer.
Zt Total impedance across shorted turns. In the existing techniques the health of the machines is
r fault severity limiting resistance. monitored by simply monitoring the Park’s vector pattern.
ω Angular supply frequency in rad/sec. But unbalanced voltage can also disturb the Park’s vector
t Instantaneous time in sec. pattern, which can lead to misinterpretation of the results.
Ism Maximum supply phase current. In order to overcome such problem, the double Park’s vector
Is1 Fundamental component stator current (DPV) approach is proposed. In the proposed technique, the
Isdh1 First dominant harmonic component of current fundamental and dominant frequency component are extracted
Isdhn nth dominant harmonic component of current from the three phase stator currents using FFT. The fundamen-
tal frequency component of the three phase stator currents
are converted into two phase quantity using Park’s vector
I. I NTRODUCTION transformation and Park’s vector pattern is plotted. Similarly,
the Park’s vector pattern is plotted for the dominant harmonic
The squirrel cage induction motor (SCIM) is the most component. Both Park’s vector pattern are monitored continu-
important motor, among the motors used in the industries. The ously for detection of inter-turn fault in the SCIM hence it is
induction motor is most widely used because of cost, size, called DPV. The harmonic component Park’s vector pattern is
reliability, simplicity, efficiency etc. Due to the unexpected validated by monitoring fundamental component Park’s vector
failure can leads to unwanted downtime and it further lead component. Advantages of the proposed technique are simple,
to heavy financial losses to the industries in term maintenance easy to implement, it help to distinguish between different
healthy and faulty condition, it also helps for the identification hence the current flowing in the stator phase winding is
of fault location and this is an iterative technique for exact fault inversely proportion to the impedance of the winding.
identification. vs
isU = U
ZsU
II. FAULT DETECTION METHODOLOGY 1
∴ isU ∝ (6)
A. Problem formulation ZsU
When the N number of turns gets shorted in U phase due
The circuit diagram of the stator winding is shown in Fig. to inter-turn fault, it leads to reduction in number of turns
1. The resistance and inductance of the winding depends on (NsU − N ) in U phase. It further results into the decrease in
length that is, number of turns in the stator winding as given impedance of the phase winding. Therefore impedance of the
below, faulty winding is less than as compared with healthy winding.
ρlsU Hence the current during the faulty condition greater than
RsU = (1) healthy condition.
A
ZsU f < ZsU
µo <lr πNs2U ∴ isU f > isU (7)
LsU = (2)
g
B. Park’s vector approach
For the same conductor resistivity (ρ) of the material and In the Parks vector transformation, the rotating three phase
the cross section area (A) are constant. Hence resistance of the currents quantities are converted into stationary two phase
conductor is directly proportional to length of the conductor quantity. The three phase induction motors winding neutral
(lsU ) that is, number of turns. point is isolated, hence the currents will not have any homo-
polar component [16]. The two dimensional representations
RsU ∝ lsU ∝ NsU (3) can be used for detection of faults in the SCIM. The three
phase stator current are converted into the two phase quantity
using Parks vector transformation [12]. The Parks vector
Shorting transformation as given below,
resistance r
isU
ZsU NsU Zt 2 1 1
vs
isd = is − √ isV − √ isW
U
Us Phase 3 U 6 6
ZsV
U3 U2 U1 r
NsV 1 1
isV
vs V
isq = √ isV − √ isW (8)
Vs Phase 2 2
ZsW NsW 436 turns per phase
isW Where,
vs W
Ws Phase
q
Stator winding isU = i2sU 1 + i2sU dh1 + ......... + i2sU dhn
q
Fig. 1. Circuit diagram of stator winding of SCIM. isV = i2sV 1 + i2sV dh1 + ......... + i2sV dhn
q
isW = i2sW 1 + i2sW dh1 + ......... + i2sW dhn
For normal running condition permeability of free space
(µo ), mean radius of air-gap (<), length of air-gap (g) and Under symmetric and healthy condition of the SCIM the
length of rotor (lr ) are constant, hence self inductance of the phase currents are balanced, hence other harmonics component
stator winding is directly proportional to the square of number are absent. Under such condition the direct axis and quadrature
turns in the stator winding. axis are perpendicular to each other, hence the Park’s vectors
can be express as below.
√
LsU ∝ Ns2U (4) 6
isd = Ism sin(ωt)
√2
Similarly, the mutual inductance is directly proportional to
6 π
the number of turns in stator winding. The resistance and isq = Ism sin(ωt − ) (9)
inductance of the stator winding is directly proportional to 2 2
number of turns in the stator winding, hence impedance of Under this condition the Park’s vector that is, Lissajou’s
the stator winding is depends on number turns in the stator pattern appears like circular in shape. If the inter-turn fault
winding. occurs, the current in faulty phase is increased (7), because
of the harmonic component is generated in stator current. The
ZsU = f (NsU ) (5) three phase stator currents become unbalanced, hence (9) is
no longer valid and the shape of the Park’s vector pattern also
The instantaneous value of stator U phase current is given changes. By continuous monitoring the shape of the Park’s
below. At normal running condition supply voltage is constant, vector pattern the health of the SCIM can be identified.
C. Algorithm for double Park’s vector approach III. E XPERIMENTAL SETUP DESCRIPTION
The proposed technique is verified on three phase SCIM.
The DPV approach is similar to existing Park’s vector The specification of the experimental motor are in depicted in
technique. In case of existing Park’s vector the unbalanced Table I. This is a specially designed SCIM for the analysis
voltage can also disturb the Park’s vector pattern and the of inter-turn faults experimentally. The three tappings of
result may be misinterpreted. In order to avoid such condition, U1 (5%), U2 (10%) and U3 (15%) are taken out from each phase
new DPV technique is proposed. In this technique, instead of of the stator winding as shown in Fig. 1. The functional dia-
plotted single Park’s vector of stator currents two Park’s vector gram of the experimental laboratory test setup and laboratory
of fundamental component and dominant harmonic component photograph are shown in Fig. 3(a) and Fig. 3(b) respectively.
are plotting on single, graph hence it is called DPV. The
algorithm for DPV is shown in Fig. 2.
TABLE I
D ESIGN SPECIFICATIONS OF THE EXPERIMENT SCIM.
3*
component Shorting
Three phase
3* resistance
Correction Correction
autotransformer
factor factor Turns for inter- U1 U2 U3
3 *
3* turn Shorting
Generation Generation U
sine wave sine wave Three phase Rotor
3 *
3 * AC supply V
Apply PV Apply PV 415 V, 50 Hz W
approach approach
2* 2* 1 hp,
Compare
PV1
PV1 and PV2 PV2 Lab-View® NI DAS Current three phase, 1 kW DC
sensors SCIM Shunt
generator
Display DPV
Iu [A]
with ±10 volts, 16 bit ADC resolution. To process these sensed 10
-3
-5
10
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500
IV. E XPERIMENTAL RESULTS Frequency (Hz)
Iu[A]
-2
to get balanced currents, the correction factor is added to the 10
turn fault.
Iq (A)
-1
B. Double Park’s vector analysis
-2
It is observed that, during the inter-turn fault in the stator
winding the amplitude of the fundamental and 3rd order -3
5 5 5
PV2 PV2 PV2
PV1 PV1 PV1
4 4 4
3 3 3
2 2 2
1 1 1
Iq (A)
Iq (A)
Iq (A)
0 0 0
-1 -1 -1
-2 -2 -2
-3 -3 -3
-4 -4 -4
-5 -5 -5
-5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5
Id (A) Id (A) Id (A)
Fig. 6. Double Park’s vector pattern for inter-turn fault in U phase winding (a) 5% turns shorted, (b) 10% turns shorted and (c) 15% turns shorted.
5
in the horizontal direction, where in case of inter-turn fault PV2
PV1
in V phase the double Park’s vector pattern deformed in 4
Iq (A)
0
-1
0
Park’s vector pattern of the fundamental component of the
-1
stator current showing slightly deformation in the shape along
-2
north-west and south-east direction. The dominant harmonic
-3
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absence of inter-turn fault in SCIM. Hence the Park’s vector -4
5
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