Calculation of motor capacitances for prediction of the voltage across the bearings in machines of inverter-based drive systems

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 665-672

  Muetze, Annette ^a   Binder, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bearings (mechanical); Failure analysis; Variable speed drives

Indexed keywords

BEARINGS (MACHINE PARTS); CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FAILURE ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING; VOLTAGE DIVIDERS;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHNING; INVERTER-BASED DRIVE SYSTEMS; MOTOR CAPACITANCE; VARIABLE-SPEED DRIVES;

ELECTRIC MOTORS; FORECASTING;

BEARING CURRENTS; BEARING VOLTAGE; BEARINGS (MECHANICAL); CAPACITIVE VOLTAGE DIVIDERS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING CURRENTS; HIGH-FREQUENCY DISCHARGES; INVERTER-BASED;

EID: 34249883956     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2007.895734     Document Type: Article

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