Device for monitoring corona discharge in a dynamoelectric machine with detection probe movable in longitudinal and circumferential direction

• US 5,252,927 A
• Filed: 10/18/1991
• Issued: 10/12/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alstom SA
• Original Assignee: ASEA Brown Boveri SA de CV (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Hassig, Martin, Bruhlmeier, Paul, Fuhr, Jitka, Kohler, Rene, Kopp, Albert
• Primary Examiner(s): Strecker, Gerard R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): DO, DIEP N
• Application Number:
  US07/778,665
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• Field of Search: 324/545-547, 324/536, 324/158 MG
• US Class Current: 324/546
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/343 in operation
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/346 Testing of armature or field windings

Abstract

In the device for detecting partial discharges in winding elements of an electrical machine, the winding element to be investigated is sampled over its length, with high voltage applied, by means of a drivable probe and the radio frequency signals initiated by the partial discharges are received by means of an antenna. The antenna signal is detected and evaluated in a test set (11) connected downstream. The probe is arranged on a support which can be conveyed, under remote control, in the machine longitudinal direction, by means of tension cables (4, 5) or an axle rod, or is provided with a dedicated drive.

Claims

1. A corona discharge monitor system for a dynamoelectric machine having a rotor and a stator, said stator having a bore and slots therein with insulated conductors in said slots, antenna means mounted on a probe for receiving radio frequency signals resulting from corona discharge in said slots as said antenna means moves along said sots in the longitudinal direction of said slots and past said slots in succession, means for transferring said radio frequency signals received by said antenna means to a place externally of said dynamoelectric machine, said system comprising:

first means for moving the probe in the longitudinal direction of said slots, comprising a probe support at one of the ends of said stator and externally of said stator bore;

second means for moving the probe in the circumferential direction of said stator bore incorporated into said probe support;

means for detecting a longitudinal and a rotational position of said probe relative to said slots for providing a positional signal representing the position of the probe,

wherein the probe support is mounted on a part of the rotor of the dynamoelectric machine, said part being rotationally symmetrical with respect to the rotor axis.

2. The corona discharge monitor system according to claim 1, wherein said part of the rotor of the dynamoelectric machine is a machine fan, or an auxiliary device mounted on the machine fan, of the dynamoelectric machine.

3. The corona discharge monitor system according to claim 1 further comprising at least one axial fan, said probe support being mounted by means of an auxiliary device on the external circumference of said axial fan or on the hub of said axial fan and being movable thereon in the circumferential direction, said auxiliary device consisting essentially of a multi-part ring which is mounted on the external circumference or the hub of said axial fan.

4. The corona discharge monitor system according to claim 1, wherein said probe can be moved in the machine longitudinal direction by means of a perforated strip which is driven by a drive on said robe support, said probe support being mounted detachably on the stator by means of retaining rods with retaining magnets and being movable in the circumferential direction.

5. The corona discharge monitor system according to claim 1, wherein said probe is arranged on a carriage which, as well as the dedicated drive, has retaining magnets which interact with iron plates of the stator.

6. The corona discharge monitor system according to one of claim 1-5, wherein means are provided for detecting and recording movement of said probe in the machine longitudinal direction.

7. The corona discharge monitor system according to one of claims 1-5, wherein means are provided for detecting and recording movement of said probe in the circumferential direction.

8. The corona discharge monitor system according to one of claims 1-5, wherein said probe has an antenna signal amplifier whose output is connected to a test set for evaluating said radio frequency signals received by said antenna means.

9. The corona discharge monitor system according to one of claims 1-5, wherein said probe includes an antenna signal amplifier and also a demodulator, wherein the antenna signal demodulated by said demodulator is supplied to said test set.