The paper focuses on presenting data obtained from spin test experiments of a turbine engine like rotor disk and assessing their correlation to the development of a structural health monitoring and fault detection system. The data were obtained under various operating conditions such as the rotor disk being artificially induced with and without a notch and rotated at a rotational speed of up to...

This paper presents the state space modelling of doubly fed induction generator (DFIG) for small signal stability assessment. The gains of PI controller in torque and voltage control loop of rotor-side converter (RSC) are optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO) to improve the dynamic performance of DFIG. These optimized parameters results in improved damping of DFIG and minimizes the osc...

The vibration analysis of rotating machinery can give an indication of the condition of potential faults such as unbalance, bent shaft, shaft crack, bearing clearance, rotor rub, misalignment, looseness, oil whirl and whip and other malfunctions. The diagnostics of rotor faults has gained importance in recent years. Many papers in the literature have dealt with single faults but normally, more ...

Doubly Fed Induction Generators DFIG are nowadays widely used in variable speed wind power plants. The dynamic interaction between variable speed DFIG wind turbines and the power system which is subjected to disturbances, such as short circuit faults, is an important issue. The ability of the wind power plant to stay connected to the grid during disturbances is important to avoid a cascading ef...

Generators are frequently subjected to high currents and voltages caused by electrical disturbances in the power system. Faults in particular subject the generator to stresses beyond its design limits and cause high temperature increase, amplify and distort air gap torques, and create unbalanced flux densities. Even more stressful as a consequence of faults are sudden loss of load, fault cleara...

Due to their reliability, robustness and simple construction squirrel-cage induction motors are widely used in industry. However, faults like broken rotor bars, rotor eccentricity, bearing and winding faults can occur during normal operation of the motor. Techniques for the detection of these faults have been researched since more than ten years. Although hundreds of papers are published year b...

Active magnetic bearings offer the capability to control rotor vibration and transmitted forces through the design of adaptive controllers. These controllers can take into account the changing operating conditions and variations in the system dynamics. A Recursive Open-Loop Adaptive Control (ROLAC) algorithm was developed, which minimizes the sum of squares of the measurements in frequency doma...

The sidebands around stator currents harmonics as a potential tool for supporting the diagnosis of rotor faults in induction motors are analyzed in this paper. The presence of broken bars introduces high frequency components in the machine currents spectrum in addition to the characteristic sidebands around the fundamental component. These additional components are due to the interaction betwee...