• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.638_639
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• 2009

The motors faults including mechanical rotor imbalances, broken rotor bar, bearing failure and eccentricities problems are reflected in electric, electromagnetic and mechanical quantities. This paper presents a study and the practical implementation of an induction motor for reactor containment fan cooler in nuclear power plant with Electric Signature Analysis(ESA). The results obtained present a good degree of reliability hence; the ESA predictive maintenance tools enable a pro-active evaluation of induction motors performance prior to failure.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.1558-1565
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a new method for detecting bearing faults using vibration signals. The proposed method is based on support vector machines (SVMs), which treat the harmonics of fault-related frequencies from vibration signals as fault indices. Using SVMs, the cross-validations are used for a training process, and a two-stage classification process is used for detecting bearing faults and their status. The proposed approach is applied to outer-race bearing fault detection in three-phase squirrel-cage induction motors. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively identify the bearing faults and their status, hence improving the accuracy of fault diagnosis.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.125-134
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• 1992

This paper presents a cycloconverter with an LC resonant circuit for an induction motor drive. The cycloconverter can keep input displacement factor at 1.0 by independently controlling real and reactive power under any load conditions. Furthermore it can keep power factor at about 1.0 since input and output current waveforms are nearly sinusoidal. Since it uses high frequency resonant circuit for commutation source, it can produce an output voltage of hundreds of hertz. Since it is also possible to make a system of high capacity using the cycloconverter, it is appropriate to drive motors with high speed and high capacity as well as general purpose motors, In this paper, we describe the operating principles of the cycloconverter and power control algorithms, and analyze its waveforms and present its characteristics. Expermental results are shown for the volts/hertz control of the induction motor and the validity of the proposed model is verified.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07b
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• pp.660-662
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• 2001

This paper describes the problems generated with the use of PWM ASDs with induction motors. The major effect of harmonic voltages and currents in induction motors is increased the heating due to iron and copper losses at harmonic frequencies. The harmonic components thus affect the motor efficiency and developed the torque. In order to investigate the effect of harmonics which is caused by using of nonlinear load at the low voltage system, we set up simple load system and measured the voltage and current. Measurement results show that additional operation of induction motor at the parallel bus in using nonlinear load such as ASD is helpful to the reduction of harmonic current.

• Transactions of Materials Processing
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• v.14 no.7 s.79
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• pp.642-648
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• 2005

Rotor in small-medium induction motor has been usually manufactured by aluminum diecasting. In order to improve the efficiency of induction motors, newly developed Cu-Ca alloys have been investigated. The electrical conductivity in the Cu alloys containing Ca less than $1.0wt\%$ was higher than $80\%$ IACS. Cu-Ca alloy is desirable for the thixoforming process because it has wide semi-solid range over $150^{\circ}C$. In this study, Cu-rotor with thixoforming process was developed to replace the conventional aluminum diecasting rotor. Analysis was performed for the microstructure of thixoforming rotor. Effect of incomplete filling on the efficiency of induction motor was discussed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.77-79
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• 2009

Nonlinear system fault detection and isolation of this paper is about the failure of unknown function approximation using neural network for fault detection and isolation techniques of induction motors were applied. observer-based fault signal residual value was used. Induction motor using the speed controller of the backstepping controller. Proposed fault detection and isolation to prove the performance of the simulation was applied to and the actual system.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.2
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• pp.221-228
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• 2008

This paper presents a new method for world wide network motor controlled system. It uses disturbance observer to present high precision position control algorithm to disturbance change, and to apply this to induction motors. It shows that proposed algorithm is strong in induction motor precision control for disturbance change. This system with disturbance observer used deadbeat control, which have high benefit, is good for quick disturbance compensation. To show these effectiveness the whole process is simulated by simulink, and also experimented by DSP6416 with TCP-IP network board.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.277-280
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• 2008

In this work, the development of the diagnosis algorithm is carried out for identifying health and faulted conditions in three-phase induction motors. The algorithm consists of feature calculation, feature extraction, and feature classification procedures in sequence. Signals for this algorithm are acquired by current and flux sensors simultaneously, the latter is to measure the change of magnetic flux at the air-gap, This work proposes the efficient diagnosis method for induction motors by developing the powerful algorithm. The calculated features show a good linearity according to faults severities. Moreover. the final results show a good classification rate on motor conditions.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.07a
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• pp.371-375
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• 1998

This paper proposes a programmable low pass filter(LPF) to estimate stator flux for speed sensorless stator flux orientation control of induction motors. The programmable LPF is developed to solve the dc drift problem associated with a pure integrator and an analog LPF with fixed pole. of the programmable LPF is located far from the origin in order to decrease the time constant as speed increases. The programmable LPF has the phase and the magnitude compensator to exactly estimate stator flux in a wide speed range. So, the drift problem is much improved and the stator flux is exactly estimated in the wide speed range. The validity of the proposed programmable LPF is verified by speed sensorless vector control of a 2.2[kW] three-phase induction motor.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11d
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• pp.267-270
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• 2002

Fractional horse power single phase induction motors have no starting torque their own. So there are several ways of starting single phase induction motors. The most common type is the starting capacitor installed in series with the auxiliary winding to increase the starting torque. Also, the auxiliary winding is disconnected once the speed of the motor reaches 70 to 80 [%] of the rated speed. In the conventional systems, this function is conducted by a centrifugal switch. But the mechanical centrifugal switch has many problems such as switch malfunction. This paper presents the new methods of electronic starting switch by inductor to overcome these shortcomings of centrifugal switch.