Motor monitoring system for a continuous miner.
Authors
Thalimer-JR; McClelland-JJ; Homce-GT
Source
Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, IC 9306, 1992 Jan; :1-12
Abstract
The U.S. Bureau of Mines has investigated the early detection of insulation failure in squirrel cage induction motors for the past 4 years. Research was done using a sophisticated empirical data- modeling technique based on values calculated from a motor's voltage and current phasors. This technique produces two polynomial equations that calculate the insulation leakage current and power. These models were implemented in a prototype system that monitors six motors on a continuous miner for insulation leakage. These insulation leakage values are used to anticipate insulation failure. The system consists of a motor data system for each motor on the machine and a control computer located away from the miner. Each motor data system consists of an analog interface to the motor's voltages and currents, a single-board computer that reads digitized data and calculates voltage and current phasors, and a bus node that interfaces the single-board computer with the rest of the system by way of a serial bus system. Using this bus system, the control computer requests and receives phasor data from the motor data systems. From these data the control computer calculates and displays two deterioration values for each motor, for leakage current and power, using Bureau-developed models. These values are stored in a data base from which the user can display graphs of each motor's deterioration values over time.
Keywords
Mining-industry; Mining-equipment; Electrical-equipment; Electrical-shock; Electrical-safety; Coal-mining
Contact
NIOSH, Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, P.O. Box 18070, Pittsburgh, PA 15236
Document Type
IH; Information Circular
NTIS Accession No.
PB92169994
Source Name
Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, IC 9306
