Online surge testing applied to an induction machine with emulated insulation breakdown

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1358-1366

  Grubic, Stefan ^a   Restrepo, Jose ^b   Habetler, Thomas G ^c  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault emulation; induction machine; motor diagnostics; online testing; surge test; turn insulation failure

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC FAILURES; ELECTRICAL INSULATION SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FAULT EMULATIONS; INDUCTION MACHINES; ON-LINE MONITORING METHODS; ON-LINE TESTING; SURGE TEST;

ELECTRIC MACHINERY; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE; TESTING;

INSULATION;

EID: 84877881090     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2013.2253535     Document Type: Article

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