System, wellness circuit and method of determining wellness of a rotating electrical apparatus

• US 8,401,822 B2
• Filed: 04/20/2010
• Issued: 03/19/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited (Eaton Corporation PLC.)
• Original Assignee: Eaton Corp. (Wisconsin) (Eaton Corporation PLC.)
• Inventors: Dimino, Steven A., Yan, Ting, Verheyen, Mark A., Ruchti, Thomas M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Teixeira Moffat, Jonathan C
• Assistant Examiner(s): BETSCH, REGIS J
• Application Number:
  US12/763,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20110257934A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,064 Days
• Field of Search: 702/183, 702/185, 340/664, 324/765.01
• US Class Current: 702/183
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/343 in operation

Abstract

A wellness circuit is for a rotating electrical apparatus having a rated current and being operatively associated with an electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus structured to provide a number of currents and a number of voltages of the rotating electrical apparatus. The wellness circuit includes a current sensor scaled to the rated current and structured to provide a notch current signal representative of one of the number of currents; an interface to the electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus, the interface providing the number of currents and the number of voltages; and a processor employing the number of currents and the number of voltages from the interface and the notch current signal to determine wellness of the rotating electrical apparatus. The wellness circuit is structured to be separate from or added to the electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus.

Claims

1. A system for determining wellness of a three-phase rotating electrical apparatus having a rated current, said system comprising:

a three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus operatively associated with the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus and being structured to provide name plate data, three-phase RMS current, three-phase RMS voltage, percent load, estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, frequency, and user fault settings thereof; and

a wellness circuit for the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus, said wellness circuit being separate from the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus, said wellness circuit comprising;

a current sensor scaled to the rated current and structured to provide a notch current signal representative of one current of three phases of current flowing through said three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus,

an interface to the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus, said interface receiving from the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus the name plate data, the three-phase RMS current, the three-phase RMS voltage, the percent load, the estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, the estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, the frequency, and the user fault settings, and

a processor employing the name plate data, the three-phase RMS current, the three-phase RMS voltage, the percent load, the estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, the estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, the frequency, and the user fault settings and the notch current signal to determine wellness of the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus,

wherein external interfaces of the wellness circuit are limited to the current sensor and the interface to the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus is selected from the group consisting of a circuit interrupter, a motor starter, a controller, a motor controller, a reduced voltage starter, an inverter drive, a protection device, a relay, a motor protector, an overload relay, and a monitoring device.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus comprises a processor;

and wherein the interface is between the last said processor and the processor of the wellness circuit.

4. The system of claim 3 wherein the interface is a Serial Peripheral Interface bus interface.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the current sensor is selected from the group consisting of a current transducer and a Hall effect current sensor.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the processor is a digital signal processor.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the processor comprises an output structured to provide a number of alarms, warnings, cavitation data, motor fault data, bearing fault data, compressed spectrum, frequency, and notch status.

8. The system of claim 7 wherein the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus is a three-phase motor;

and wherein the number of alarms are selected from the group consisting of a number of faults of the three-phase motor, a number of rotational faults of the three-phase motor, a number of bearing faults of the three-phase motor, a number of stator faults of the three-phase motor, a number of rotor faults of the three-phase motor, and a number of faults in a load coupled to the three-phase motor.

9. The system of claim 1 wherein a low voltage or a medium voltage is provided to the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus by the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus;

and wherein the interface is structured to operate at a logic level voltage which is substantially smaller than the low voltage or the medium voltage.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the interface is a Serial Peripheral Interface bus interface.

11. The system of claim 1 wherein the wellness circuit is structured to operate with a plurality of different types of the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus.

12. The system of claim 1 wherein the wellness circuit is disposed external to the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus.

13. The system of claim 1 wherein the processor is structured to detect a number of faults of the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus is a three-phase motor;

and wherein the number of faults is selected from the group consisting of a number of faults of the three-phase motor, a number of rotational faults of the three-phase motor, a number of bearing faults of the three-phase motor, a number of stator faults of the three-phase motor, a number of rotor faults of the three-phase motor, and a number of faults in a load coupled to the three-phase motor.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein the interface is structured to output the detected number of faults of the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus to the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus.

16. A wellness circuit for a three-phase rotating electrical apparatus operatively associated with a three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus being structured to provide name plate data, three-phase RMS current, three-phase RMS voltage, percent load, estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, frequency, and user fault settings of the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus, said three-phase rotating electrical apparatus having a rated current, said wellness circuit comprising:

a current sensor scaled to the rated current and structured to provide a notch current signal representative of one current of three phases of current flowing through said three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus;

an interface to the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus, said interface receiving from the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus the name plate data, the three-phase RMS current, the three-phase RMS voltage, the percent load, the estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, the estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, the frequency, and the user fault settings; and

a processor employing the name plate data, the three-phase RMS current, the three-phase RMS voltage, the percent load, the estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, the estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, the frequency, and the user fault settings from the interface and the notch current signal to determine wellness of the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus,

wherein said wellness circuit is structured to be separate from the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus, and

wherein external interfaces of the wellness circuit are limited to the current sensor and the interface to the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus.

17. The wellness circuit of claim 16 wherein the interface is a Serial Peripheral Interface bus interface.

18. The wellness circuit of claim 16 wherein the processor is a digital signal processor.

19. A wellness system comprising:

a three-phase rotating electrical apparatus having a rated current;

a three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus operatively associated with the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus and being structured to provide name plate data, three-phase RMS current, three-phase RMS voltage, percent load, estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, frequency, and user fault settings thereof; and

a wellness circuit for the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus, said wellness circuit being separate from the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus, said wellness circuit comprising;

a current sensor scaled to the rated current and structured to provide a notch current signal representative of one current of three phases of current flowing through said three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus,

an interface to the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus, said interface receiving from the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus the name plate data, the three-phase RMS current, the three-phase RMS voltage, the percent load, the estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, the estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, the frequency, and the user fault settings, and

a processor employing the name plate data, the three-phase RMS current, the three-phase RMS voltage, the percent load, the estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, the estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, the frequency, and the user fault settings from the interface and the notch current signal to determine wellness of the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus,

wherein external interfaces of the wellness circuit are limited to the current sensor and the interface to the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus is a three-phase motor.

21. A method of determining wellness of a three-phase rotating electrical apparatus having a rated current, said method comprising:

operatively associating a three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus with the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus;

providing name plate data, three-phase RMS current, three-phase RMS voltage, percent load, estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, frequency, and user fault settings of the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus with the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus;

providing a wellness circuit for the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus;

providing said wellness circuit separate from the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus;

providing a notch current signal representative of one current of three phases of current flowing through said three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus with a current sensor scaled to the rated current;

interfacing the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus to the wellness circuit to receive from the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus the name plate data, the three-phase RMS current, the three-phase RMS voltage, the percent load, the estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, the estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, the frequency, and the user fault settings thereto;

processing the name plate data, the three-phase RMS current, the three-phase RMS voltage, the percent load, the estimated current rotating coordinate system vectors, the estimated voltage rotating coordinate system vectors, the frequency, and the user fault settings and the notch current signal to determine wellness of the three-phase rotating electrical apparatus; and

limiting external interfaces of the wellness circuit to the current sensor and said interfacing the three-phase electrical switching, control, protection or monitoring apparatus to the wellness circuit.