Performance and Harmonic Analysis of a Three-Phase Induction Motor with Various Coil Pitch Configurations

Authors : Atilla DÖNÜK, Osamah ALDORİ

Pages : 38-47

Doi:10.53433/yyufbed.1105237

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Publication Date : 2023-04-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In this work, analyses of the effect of full-, under-, and over-pitched stator winding configurations on the efficiency, output power, torque characteristics, and current and voltage harmonic components are carried out on a three-phase, squirrel cage induction motor. Performance analyses have been performed both via Ansys/RMxprt and Maxwell/2D software by modelling the stator winding with coil pitches of 100°, 120°, 140°, 160°, 180°, 200°, 220°, 240°, and 260°. Current and voltage harmonics analyses have been performed in Matlab using the data obtained from Maxwell/2D simulations. Maxwell/2D results showed that the maximum efficiency is attained at 200° over-pitched configuration, which is 0.73% higher than the efficiency when the motor is full-pitched. The maximum output power and torque are attained at 240° over-pitched configuration, which is 7.96% and 7.45% more than the power and torque obtained when the motor is full-pitched, respectively. Harmonic analysis results showed that both under-pitched and over-pitched coils can be used to eliminate harmonics in the current and voltage waveforms. However, over-pitched coils performed better in eliminating the phase current harmonics. The minimum total harmonic distortion insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(THD); of the phase current and induced voltage are reached at 260° over-pitched and 120° under-pitched configurations, which is 52.39% and 74.36% lower than the THD when the motor is full-pitched, respectively. Over-pitched coils provide slightly higher efficiency, output power, and torque than the under-pitched coils. There is no unique coil pitch configuration to eliminate all harmonic components. Therefore, in order to eliminate a specific harmonic component, a specific coil-pitch must be applied.
Keywords : Asenkron Motor, Harmonik, Sargı adımı, Sonlu elemanlar yöntemi, Stator sargısı