Fault Diagnosis of Rotor Broken Bar in Induction Motor Based on Successive Variational Mode Decomposition

Xinyue Liu, Yan Yan, Kaibo Hu, Shan Zhang, Hongjie Li, Zhen Zhang and Tingna Shi
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Xinyue Liu: College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Yan Yan: College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
Kaibo Hu: Zhejiang Zheneng Lanxi Power Generation Co., Ltd., Jinhua 321199, China
Shan Zhang: Zhejiang Zheneng Lanxi Power Generation Co., Ltd., Jinhua 321199, China
Hongjie Li: School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Zhen Zhang: Advanced Electrical Equipment Innovation Center, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 311107, China
Tingna Shi: College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: When an induction motor is running at stable speed and low slip, the fault signal of the induction motor’s broken bar faults are easily submerged by the power frequency (50 Hz) signal. Thus, it is difficult to extract fault characteristics. The left-side harmonic component representing the fault characteristics can be distinguished from power frequency owing to V-shaped trajectory of the fault component in time-frequency ( t - f ) domain during motor startup. This article proposed a scheme to detect broken bar faults and discriminate the severity of faults under starting conditions. In this scheme, successive variable mode decomposition (SVMD) is applied to analyze the stator starting current to extract the fault component, and the signal reconstruction is proposed to maximize the energy of the fault component. Then, the quadratic regression curve method of instantaneous frequency square value of the fault component is utilized to discriminate whether the fault occurs. In addition, according to the feature that the energy of the fault component increases with the fault severity, the energy of the right part of the fault component is proposed to detect the severity of the fault. In this paper, experiments are carried out based on a 5.5 kW three-pole induction motor. The results show that the scheme proposed in this paper can diagnose the broken bar faults and determine the severity of the fault.

Keywords: broken bar faults; induction motor; successive variational mode decomposition (SVMD); quantification of failure severity; starting current (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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