Locating Winding Insulation Defects

in Large Electrical Machines

Dragana Popovic Renella & Marjan Blagojevic
CWIEME
5th June 2013, Berlin

Outline

Magnetic Measurement Instruments

Current Sensors

Insulation Defect Locator

Outlook

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Digital Teslameter / Gaussmeter

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Integrated 3-axis Hall Probe

Very high resolution: 1ppm
Accuracy: 0.001%
High f-bandwidth
High temperature stability
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Applications

Magnetic Field Mapping, e.g. in Particle Accelerators

Characterization of Permanent Magnets

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Application:

Monitoring Electrical Machines

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Detecting rotor winding shorted through measurement of:

Main Rotor magnetic field
Stator Reaction magnetic field
Rotor Slot Leakage magnetic field
Air-gap magnetic field
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resolution & accuracy (ppm)

Magnetic Measurement Technologies

SENIS
Teslameter

field (T)
*Luca Bottura of CERN; Revised by SENIS 2011
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Current Sensing using Magnetic Field

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Application: Current Sensors

I = 0.2A 10A

I = 200A 3000A

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Application: Clamp-On MicroAmmeter

SENIS Hall
sensor inside

Key Features
Measurement range

100mA (100T)

Offset Drift

IOF,RMS< 10A (10nT)

Sensitivity

100V/A (100000V/T)

Withstanding voltage

50kV

Jaw opening

50mm

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Application: Insulation Defect Locator

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IDL Theoretical background

IDL Theoretical background

Typical current stator slot cross section

IDL Theoretical background

HighVoltage Generator

Current Limiter

Stator Coil

Leading edge

Trailing edge

Leakage Resistance

Current limit

Current of HV source

Leakage current of coil

HV source operates like voltage source

Control voltage
for HV source

HV source operates like current source

Rise time

Width time

Fall time

Predicted diagram of leakage current based on simplified schematic diagram. Current limit
for controllable high voltage source is about 15mA.

IDL Consisting Parts

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IDL Measurement Procedure

CT
A
#1

#2

#12

B
CT

Winding under test

C
CT

DC Clamp-On Microammeter 1

High Voltage DC Generator

Rinsulation

DC Clamp-On Microammeter 2

R
D
CT

Multifunction DAQ

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Measurement
diagram for one
phase of generator

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Technical Challenges

Very low magnetic resolution order of nT

=> Minimization of noise and offset fluctuation

Influence of external magnetic field

=> Dual core

Remanet magnetic field

=> Degaussing & material with low Br

High voltage compatibility

=> Fiber-optic transfer data

Case Story - Twin Lakes Colorado

Case Story Grand Coulee

Case Story Buffalo Bill G2 Plant

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Case Story Buffalo Bill G2 Plant

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SENIS Current Sensors - Outlook

Development of a New generation of Clamp-On MicroAmmeters
for leakage current detection.
- Objective: Offset fluctuation and drift <3A over 10min
- Deadline: End of 2013

High-Accuracy Clamp-On DC/AC Current Transducers for Test

and Measurement applications, ranges from 100A to 1000A
- Objective: Absolute accuracy better than 0.2% (now the best
on the market: 1%); major improvement of repeatability and
immunity to external magnetic fields.
- Time: Mid-2014

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Demonstration
Booth No. 4333, Hall 4.2
Thank you!
www.senis.ch
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