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Electrical Stator

The stator is a crucial stationary component of electric motors, with faults accounting for a significant percentage of motor failures. Common causes of stator winding faults include overcurrents during start-up, transient voltage spikes, and overheating, which can lead to short circuits and motor shutdown. Diagnosis can be performed by analyzing slot passing frequency and RMS current values, with solutions including rewinding or replacing damaged stator windings.

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Electrical Stator

The stator is a crucial stationary component of electric motors, with faults accounting for a significant percentage of motor failures. Common causes of stator winding faults include overcurrents during start-up, transient voltage spikes, and overheating, which can lead to short circuits and motor shutdown. Diagnosis can be performed by analyzing slot passing frequency and RMS current values, with solutions including rewinding or replacing damaged stator windings.

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Motor Stator

The stator is the stationary part of the motor (or generator). It is one of the two key components in an electric motor, the other being the rotor, and as a result
its physical condition is of the utmost importance in the safe operation of an electric motor. Two separate studies [1][2] have found that stator faults account for
28% and 36% of all induction motor faults respectively.

Stator of a 3 phase AC-motor (source Wikipedia)

Cause
A stator winding fault occurs when the insulation of the windings wears away. This is usually caused by thermal stresses which can often be due to a sustained
overloading of the motor or a voltage unbalance.

Damage to the stator windings is usually done in one of three ways:

1) From overcurrents during start-up

2) From recurring transient voltage spikes, which over time damage the winding insulation by causing inter-turn currents

3) Through overheating

During start-up, high currents are produced in the stator, which can damage the windings. The effects of this can be limited by properly following good practice
when starting up or shutting down equipment (e.g. using a VSD to ramp up the motor speed slowly) and only turning the motor off when necessary.

Transient voltage spikes can be filtered out, using an overcurrent protection system, if these are causing a problem.

Overheating is caused by running the motor at too high a load, or by improper ventilation of the motor. This could be caused by the ventilation fan of the motor
being blocked.

Effect
Stator winding faults can lead to a short circuit in or between the windings. If the short circuit is to ground or between phases of the supply this can cause
instant shutdown of the motor. A short circuit within a phase can lead to a partial burnout of a section of the windings; the shorted section will act as an open
circuit inside which current will flow, dissipating heat. Once one section of windings has burnt out in this manner it is likely that all sets of windings will rapidly
deteriorate.
Diagnosis
Stator winding faults can be identified by first calculating the slot passing frequency, found by multiplying the shaft frequency by the number of slots on the
stator. The PSD plot would look like that in the example (below). Peaks appearing at slot pass frequency could indicate a stator winding fault.

A second way of monitoring stator winding faults is to look at the RMS current values of each phase over time. Generally these should track
one another – however in cases where there is inter-turn short circuiting, or current passing between different phases, these values will
start to cross one another.

The three colours here show the RMS values of current on each phase over time. Here you can see they track one other without crossng –
were they to cross often this would be a sign of a short circuit or sparking between the phases.

Action
Worn down insulation can be replaced by rewinding the stator windings. If damage has already been done to the stator itself, then it may need replacing.

[1.] Allbrecht PF, Appiarius JC, McCoy RM, Owen EL (1986) Assessment of the reliability of motors in utility applications—updated. IEEE Trans Energy
Convers EC-1(1):39–46

[2.] Singh GK, Al Kazzaz SAS (2003) Induction machine drive condition monitoring and diagnostic research—a survey. Electr Power Syst Res 64(2):145–158

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