Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-12T17:38:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Resumo - Rogerio Pinho Dias.pdf: 124846 bytes, checksum: 695e36f2af2139d1d4a624a0e573473f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-02-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work presents a study for implementation of the control of limitation of electromagnetic torque develops for three-phase induction motor in soft-starters applications. The proposed method is based on the electromagnetic torque estimation from the measurement of stator currents and the stator voltages. The related problems to the stator flux estimation by pure integration of the equation of the stator voltages are minimized with use of low pass filters in the place of pure integrators and high pass filter at the analogical input to eliminate the measurement offset error. The amplitude and phase errors resultant of the filtering process are reduced with the use of a factor of correction in the final stage of integration. Gotten experimental results validate the proposed method showing its viability in applications where the objective is to control only the start or stop process of three-phase induction motors and possibility the applications with soft-starter - to any type of load that does not need speed variation in permanent regimen. / Este trabalho apresenta um estudo para implementação de um controle de limitação do torque eletromagnético produzido pelo motor de indução trifásico para aplicação em chaves eletrônicas de partida suave. O método proposto é baseado na estimação do torque eletromagnético através da medição das correntes e tensões estatóricas. Os problemas relacionados à estimação do fluxo estatórico através da integração da força contra eletromotriz são minimizados com a utilização de filtros passa baixa no lugar dos integradores puros e de filtros passa alta nas leituras analógicas das tensões e correntes estatóricas. Os erros de amplitude e fase devidos aos processos de filtragem são reduzidos com a utilização de um fator de correção na etapa final de integração. Resultados experimentais validam o método proposto mostrando a viabilidade de sua aplicação no controle dos processos de partida e parada do motor de indução trifásico, possibilitando assim, a aplicação das chaves eletrônicas de partida suave - a qualquer tipo de carga - que não necessite da variação de velocidade em regime permanente

Induction motors are widely used in industrial processes. The malfunction of a motor may not only lead to high repair costs, but also cause immense financial losses due to unexpected process downtime. Since thermal overload is one of the major root causes of stator winding insulation failure, an accurate and reliable monitoring of the stator winding temperature is crucial to increase the mean time to catastrophic motor breakdown, and to reduce the extraordinary financial losses due to unexpected process downtime. To provide a reliable thermal protection for induction motors fed by motor control devices, a dc signal-injection method is proposed for in-service induction motors fed by soft-starter and variable-frequency drives. The stator winding temperature can be monitored based on the estimated stator winding resistance using the dc model of induction motors. In addition, a cooling capability monitoring technique is proposed to monitor the cooling capability of induction motors and to warn the user for proactive inspection and maintenance in the case of cooling capability deterioration. The proposed cooling capability monitoring technique, combined with the proposed stator winding temperature monitoring technique, can provide a complete thermal protection for in-service induction motors fed by motor control devices. Aside from online thermal protection during a motor's normal operation, the thermal protection of de-energized motors is also essential to prolong a motor's lifetime. Moisture condensation is one of the major causes to motor degradation especially in high-humidity environments. To prevent moisture condensation, a non-intrusive motor heating technique is proposed by injecting currents into the motor stator winding using soft-starters. A motor's temperature can be kept above the ambient temperature due to the heat dissipation, so that the moisture condensation can be avoided. To sum up, active stator winding temperature estimation techniques for induction motors under both operating and de-energization conditions are proposed in this dissertation for both thermal protection and optimizing the operation of a motor system. The importance of these proposed techniques lies in their non-intrusive nature: only the existing hardware in a motor control device is required for implementation; a motor's normal operation is not interrupted.