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Improved motors for utility applications: Volume 6, Squirrel-cage rotor analysis: Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7169495
An analysis of squirrel cage induction motor rotors was undertaken in response to an Industry Assessment Study finding 10% of motor failures to be rotor related. The analysis focuses on evaluating rotor design life. The evaluation combines state-of-the-art electromagnetic, thermal, and structural solution techniques into an integrated analysis and presents a simple summary. Finite element techniques are central tools in the analysis. The analysis is applied to a specific forced draft fan drive design. Fans as a category of application have a higher failure rate than other categories of power station auxiliary motor applications. Forced-draft fan drives are one of the major fan drives which accelerate a relatively high value of rotor load inertia. Various starting and operating conditions are studied for this forced-draft fan drive motor including a representative application duty cycle.
Research Organization:
General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (USA); Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA)
OSTI ID:
7169495
Report Number(s):
EPRI-EL-4286-Vol.6; ON: TI87920168
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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