2013 e-mail NGUYEN NHAT NAM

, na11503@shibaura-it.ac.jp Electrical and Thermal Models of Stress Grading System in Inverter-Driven Medium Voltage Motors

This presentation focuses on developing electrical and thermal models of a typical stress grading system used in medium voltage rotating machines under pulse width modulation voltage source conditions. COMSOL Multi-physical program is used to set up these two analysis models, in which the nonlinear relationship between the electric field and the electrical conductivity of Silicon Carbide (SiC) semi-conductive tape is taken into account. The simulation results give a fundamental background to explain the failure of the stress grading system in inverter-driven medium voltage motors.

V=0 13
r(mm)
CAT SiC Semi-conductive Tape

12 11 10 0
Main Insulation - Mica

V=Vs 20 40

Copper Coil

60

80 100 z(mm)

120

140

160

Fig. 1.

A conventional type II stress grading system used at the stator slot exit of motors.

Fig. 2. 2D axially-symmetric model of the stress grading system.

700 600
|Etan|peak(kV/m)

55 mm

120 5L SCHB PWM 11L SCHB PWM SINE

Temperature(0C)

5L SCHB

115 110 54 52 50 32.5 32 31.5

500 400 300 200 100 0 CAT 0 20 40 60

11L SCHB

SINE

SiC SCT 80 z(mm) 100 120 140 160 0 20 40 60 80 z(mm) 100 120 140 160

Fig. 3. Peak magnitudes of the tangential electric field on the surfaces of the SG system in the three cases of 5L, 11L SCHB VSCs and 9 kVRMS (line-to-line) sinusoidal voltage source.

Fig. 4. Temperature distribution along z-axis on the surfaces of the SG system after 30 hours in the three cases of 5L, 11L SCHB VSCs and 9 kVRMS (line-to-line) sinusoidal voltage source.