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Chapter 13 Chapter 13 Three-Phase Three-Phase

Induction MotorsInduction Motors

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Introduction Induction motors are probably the most common

and frequently encountered machine to be found anywhere in the world, involving domestic, commercial and industrial sector.

Simple design, rugged, low-price, easy maintenance Run essentially at constant speed from 0 to full load Speed is frequency dependent. Not easy to have variable speed control. Requires a variable-frequency electronic drive for

optimal speed control. Two basic design types

Squirrel-cage Wound-rotor

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Principal Machine Components An induction motor has two main parts: A stationary stator

Steel frame that supports a hollow, cylindrical core Core; stacked laminations, having a number of evenly spaced slots,

providing the space for the stator winding. A revolving rotor

One of two types of rotor windings Conventional 3-phase insulated wire (wound-rotor).

similar to the winding on the stator Aluminum bus bars shorted together at the ends by two

aluminum rings, forming a squirrel-cage shaped circuit.

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Operating Principles The induction motor operation is based on Faraday’s

law and the Lorentz force on a conductor Consider a series of conductors of length l, whose

ends are short circuited by two bars, A and B. A permanent magnet is place just above this

conducting ladder structure. Magnet moves rapidly to the right at a speed v such

that the magnetic flux cuts across the conductors.

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Operating Principles As a result following series of events occur:

Voltage E = B l v is induced in each conductor as flux cuts

The induced voltage produces a current I, which flows down the conductor underneath the magnetic pole, through the end-bars and back through the other conductors.

Current-carrying conductors that lie in the magnetic field of the permanent magnet experience a mechanical force, F = I B

Mechanical force always acts in a direction to drag the conductor along with the magnetic field movement.

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Operating Principles With freedom to move, conducting ladder accelerates

to the right As the ladder structure picks up speed, the

conductors will be cut less rapidly by the moving magnet.

Magnitudes of the inducted voltage E and the driven current I diminish. As a result, the mechanical force will also decrease.

In an induction motor Ladder is closed upon itself to form a squirrel-case. Moving magnet is replaced by a rotating magnetic

field. Rotating field is produced by the three-phase ac

current that flows in the stator windings.

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The Rotating Field Simple stator with 6 salient

poles, each with a coil Coils on diametrically

opposite sides connected in series Two coils are connected to

produce mmf in the same direction

Creates three identical sets of windings, labeled AN, BN, CN.

Mechanically spaced at 120 degrees to each other.

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The Rotating Field The three windings are wye-

connected, with common neutral. Line-to-neutral impedances are

equal, for a balanced load. The line currents are displaced in

time by 120 degrees Assume a positive rotation:

phases sequence = ABC The magneto-motive force is in-

phase with the line currents The mmf’s are displaced in time

by 120 degrees The mmf’s are displaced around

the stator by 120 mechanical degrees

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The Rotating Field

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At instant 1: The current Ia has value of 10A Ib and Ic both have –5A mmf of phase A is 10A x 10 turns = 100 Ampere turns Similarly mmf of B & C is 50 Ampere turns Direction of flux can be defined using right hand rule. Six salient poles together produce a magnetic field having essentially one

broad north pole and one broad south pole. 6-pole stator produces 2-pole field, combined field points upward

The Rotating Field

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The Rotating Field……ctd. At instant 2, 1/6 cycle later, current Ic

attains a peak of – 10 A, while Ia and Ib both have a value of +5 A. New field has the same shape, but

move clockwise by an angle of 60° In other words, the flux makes 1/6

of a turn between instants 1 and 2. Each of successive instants 3, 4, 5, 6,

and 7, separated by intervals of 1 /6 cycle, magnetic field makes one complete turn during one cycle.

Rotational speed of the field depends upon the duration of one cycle, which in turn depends on frequency of the source. If the frequency is 60 Hz, field makes one turn in 1/60 s, or 3600 revolutions per minute.

If the frequency is 5 Hz, the field makes one turn in 1/5 s, that is, 300 rpm. Speed of rotating field is synchronized with frequency of the source, it is

called synchronous speed.