Diagnostics of stator winding failures in wind turbine pitch motors using Vold-Kalman filter

Autor: Surya Teja Kandukuri, Van Khang Huynh, Kjell G. Robbersmyr
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: IECON
DOI: 10.1109/iecon.2019.8926983
Popis: Pitch systems are among the most failure-prone components in wind turbines. Winding failures in pitch motors are common due to high start-up loads and poor ventilation. This article presents a diagnostics scheme that can detect the stator winding failures in the pitch motors under time-varying speed and load conditions. The proposed approach based on three-phase motor currents can be directly integrated into the motor drive and can be used for induction as well as permanent magnet synchronous machines. The extended Park's vector calculated on the motor currents is order tracked based on the supply frequency from the drive using Vold-Kalman filter. The approach is shown to be robust under arbitrary load and speed variations in a laboratory setup of a pitch drive.
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