Safety products: Increasing the lifespan of your motor
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Aug 27,2014
The REO Sinus Filter Plus ++ is used in any kind of application, which requires safe mechanical continuous power and reliability.
Safety equipment: In mission critical industries, a motor malfunction can translate to millions of dollars in lost profits. Looking after the bearings in your motor by improving power quality increases its lifespan and reduces maintenance related downtime.
REO-USA offers the REO Sinus Filter Plus ++ to be used in any kind of application that requires safe mechanical continuous power and reliability. It enables suppressed interference not only on line cables to the motor, but also to earth conductors and feeds incurring bearing currents into the DC-link so that these may not cause any damage to the mechanical system.
Many modern motors, in variable speed applications, are fitted with Variable Speed Drives (VSD), which use frequency inverters with semiconductor devices. The switching techniques used generate high rates of change in voltage, which can have undesirable effects on the motor.
Both long cable runs between the frequency inverter and the motor and fast switching times can contribute to the premature failure of a motor as the result of bearing damage or insulation failure. Other unacceptable phenomena such as power losses, high acoustic noise levels and parasitic earth currents can also occur.
The great majority of motors in the industry contain bearings, which are the main supporting elements of the application. The most sophisticated bearings for specialized applications are very precise devices; their manufacture requires some of the highest standards of precision in industry. These bearings are costly to replace and their failure can result in an entire application suffering downtime.
The bearings constrain relative motion and reduce friction between moving parts in the motor. The design of the bearing may, for example, provide for free linear movement of the moving part or for free rotation around a fixed axis; or, it may prevent a motion by controlling the vectors of normal forces that bear on the moving parts. Many bearings also facilitate the desired motion as much as possible – for instance by minimizing friction. Bearings are classified broadly according to the type of operation, the motions allowed, or to the directions of the loads applied to the parts.
Electrical erosion
Bearings in electrical motors have been known to suffer from electrical erosion. Unfortunately, this can occur relatively quickly after the application becomes live, often merely a matter of months. As a result, maintenance and condition monitoring teams need to keep a close eye on bearings performance.
Electrical erosion is very hard to spot, but it leads to bearing damage and subsequently premature bearing failure. The only way to detect electrical damage is to connect an oscilloscope and probe to the motor application. Initially, erosion manifests in the form of tiny craters; a process called fluting. At a more severe level, electrical corrosion can cause blackened grease representing the degradation of the lubricant around the bearings.
The conventional solution is to fit a low-pass filter at the output terminals of the frequency inverter, which reduces the differential-mode interference to a smooth sinusoidal waveform with a ripple content of less than five percent. However, this type of filter is inadequate for applications where the reliability of the motor is of upmost importance and where replacing the motor would come at a very high cost.
The solution is to use a conventional differential mode and a common-mode output filter. This helps eliminate bearing damage such as localized corrosion, caused by heat and pitting as a result of pulsing currents. Others benefits of using this combined solution include noise reduction, diminished current loses, reduction of radiated interference from cables, and prevention of hazardous voltages and leakage currents.
Sinus Filter Plus ++ in practice
REO has applied the above solution to protect the bearings of an underground pump motor, which is used in a combined geothermal and solar panel heating system. The problem here is that the cable running from the frequency inverter to the pump is very long and the water column provides a low impedance path back to ground. The resultant current pulsing through the motor bearings can create serious damage to the motor. Unfortunately, replacing or repairing the pump is a very costly project.
A REO Sinus Filter Plus ++ has been connected to the output terminals of the frequency inverter to reduce the common-mode disturbances that would otherwise cause premature bearing failure. The high-frequency interference causes the metering equipment to give inaccurate measurements, a problem also corrected by fitting the REO Sinus Filter Plus ++.
In applications where several motors are connected in parallel to a single frequency drive, the Sinus Filter Plus ++ can also help. Electrical erosion is the main cause of premature bearing failures. Preventive maintenance can alleviate the risk of machine downtime and the costs associated with it. REO’s Sinus Filter Plus ++ can preserve the health of bearings and prolong the life of your electrical motor.
Conforming to EN 61558-2-20, it has a rated voltage of V=3x500 V and insulation material class of T40/B. The advantages of the REO Sinus Filter Plus ++ include:
• Voltage distortion factor Uout <5%
• Reduces the need for a complex EMC Input Filter
• Use of unshielded cables
• No need for external line filters
• Lower magnetic stray field of motor conductors
• Compact and low noise construction
REO-USA engineers and manufactures industry leading technology components for integrated product solutions in diverse fields and industries including railway, drive engineering, renewable energies, medical and automation. Headquarters for the ISO 9001:2008 certified company, which entered the U.S. in 2000, is a 25,000 square-foot facility in Indianapolis, Indiana. Parent company REO, a Germany-based manufacturer of electronic and inductive components founded in 1925, operates 14 global subsidiaries.
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