Prediction of mechanical shaft failures due to pulsating torques of variable frequency drives

2009 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3469-3476

  Song Manguelle, Joseph ^a,b,c   Schröder, Stefan ^a   Geyer, Tobias ^d   Ekemb, Gabriel ^e   Nyobe Yome, Jean Maurice ^e  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GE Oil and Gas   (France)

^c GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DOUALA   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Cement; LNG; Mechanical resonance; Medium voltage; Mining; Multi level inverter; Oil and Gas; Pulsating torque; PWM; Torque harmonics; Torsional vibration

Indexed keywords

MECHANICAL RESONANCE; MEDIUM VOLTAGE; MULTILEVEL INVERTER; OIL AND GAS; PULSATING TORQUE; PWM; TORSIONAL VIBRATION;

AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; CEMENTS; COUNTING CIRCUITS; ELASTIC WAVES; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; EQUIPMENT TESTING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS; MACHINE VIBRATIONS; MECHANICAL DRIVES; MINING; MOTORS; PULSE MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; RESONANCE; ROTATING MACHINERY; ROTATION; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES;

TORQUE;

EID: 72449159625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2009.5316433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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