The Effect of Unbalanced Excitation System on the MMF Analysis of the Six-Phase Winding.

Document Type : Research Studies

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Assistant Professor, Electrical Power and Machines Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

Abstract

The effect of losing one-phase or more of the excitation system on the space MMF harmonics has been investigated for two types of six-phase stator windings ; by means of Goerge's vector diagram. The scope of this work covers the various changes in the resultant MMF waveforms that occur due to one-phase, or two-phase, or three-phase being opened. Consequently, an insight into avoiding the modes of operation which provide an objectional harmonic contents is given.
The results obtained recommend to use the six-phase winding with phase spread , , eaual to 60 , in order to improve the overall reliability with one phase being opened ; the most common failures occurred.

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