MOTOR PROTECTION,

CONTROL & MAINTENANCE

TECHNOLOGIES
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:
• Specify protection requirements for motors
• Maintain electrical motors
• Specify speed control requirements for motors
• Understand essentials of motors and drives
• Detail the main issues with testing of motors
• Prevent or at least minimise motor bearing failure
• Troubleshoot and fix faults on motors and drives
• Interface control circuits of motors with PLCs/DCSs
• Reduce downtime on electrical motors
• Improve plant safety
• Improve plant throughput
• Reduce your spares usage and requirements

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Anyone associated with the use of electrical motors in the
industrial or automation environment. The workshop will also
benefit those working in system design as well as site
commissioning, maintenance and troubleshooting.
Typical personnel who would benefit are:
• Plant Engineers • Electrical Contractors
• Instrument Technicians • Electrical consulting
• Engineering and design engineers
personnel • Process control Engineers
• Operations personnel • Mechanical Engineers
• Electrical Maintenance • Service Technicians
Technicians • Maintenance Personnel
• Instrument and Control
Engineers

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 THE WORKSHOP THE PROGRAM
It is estimated that electrical drives and other DAY ONE DAY TWO
rotating equipment consume about 50% of the
total electrical energy consumed in the world BEARING FAILURE ANALYSIS
INTRODUCTION AND OUTLINE OF
today (and this figure increases to 70% if you • Bearing failures
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
only consider industry.) The cost of maintaining • Grease and greasing
electrical motors can be a significant amount in FUNDAMENTALS OF MOTOR • Belt Drive aspects
the budget item of manufacturing and mining TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION • Balance
industries. This course gives you a thorough • Basic principles of rotating electric
understanding of electrical motor's protection, • Storage issues
machines
control and maintenance and gives you the tools • Service factor loading
• Fundamental principles of speed control
to maintain and troubleshoot electrical motors. PROTECTION OF MOTORS
• Efficiency, torque, inertia,
You will gain a fundamental understanding of the horsepower/power factor • Thermal overload
protection, control and maintenance of electric • Torque-speed curves • Time constraints
motors and drives. Typical applications of • Induction/synchronous/wound rotor types • Early relays and new digital relays
electric motors in mining, manufacturing, • Starting and stalling conditions
• Basic construction and physical
materials handling, process control are covered
configuration, windings • Over Current / Overload
in detail. The concluding section of the course
• Principles of operation and performance • Under-voltage / Over-voltage
gives you the fundamental tools in
troubleshooting motors confidently and • Under frequency
THREE PHASE AC INDUCTION • Pole slip / Out of step
effectively. MOTORS
• Loss of excitation
• Components
• Inadvertent energization
• Theory of operation
PRE-REQUISITES • Over fluxing
• Induction motor design
• Stall protection / acceleration time / Start
A fundamental knowledge of basic electrical • Duty cycles up supervision / Time between starts
concepts would be useful. • Insulation and Cooling requirements • Unbalanced supply voltages
• Starting methods • Negative sequence currents
• Selecting motors • De-rating factors
• Types of faults, fault finding and testing of • Earth faults - core balance, residual
AC machines stabilising resistors
• Testing instrumentation • Calculation of protective relay settings
ENERGY LOSSES AND EFFICIENCY MOTOR CONTROL
OF THREE PHASE AC INDUCTION • Power Circuit
MOTORS • Control Circuit
• Standards • Full Online voltage starting
• Types of Losses • Reduced voltage starting
• Tests for measurement and computation - Delta-star
of losses and efficiency
- Resistance
• Dynamometers
- Reactor
• Principles of load application by braking
- Autotransformer
• Torque measurement basics
- Soft start
• Types of practical dynamometers
• Braking
MOTOR FAILURE ANALYSIS • Speed Control
• Frequent starts • Reversing
• High inertia CONTROL SYSTEM FOR AC VARIABLE
• Inadequate cooling SPEED DRIVES
• Congestion on fan cover • Overall control system
ON-SITE TRAINING • Improper spacing at end of motor • Power supply for the control system
— contact us for a proposal today • Incorrect belt alignment • Dc Bus charging system
• Solid belt guards • VSD control loops (Open Loop/Closed
IDC Technologies unique on-site training
• Excessive loading causing bearing loop)
delivery service can save your company up to
clearance problems • Vector control
50%, or more, off the total per-head costs
associated with delegates attending a public • Insulation failures • Current feedback in ac variable speed
workshop. One of our qualified and experienced • Bearing current problems drives
Instructors can discuss the content with you, • Speed feedback from motor
TESTING
then come to your venue and present a INSTALLATION AND FAULT FINDING
workshop designed to your own specifications! • Insulation life and resistance
• Polarization index • General installation and environmental
Why not call or e-mail and ask about having requirements
• Hipot
components from a number of courses • Power supply connections and earthing
combined together? It's affordable, effective, • DC ramp test
• Where to install contactors in power
convenient and much easier than you may have • Ac hipot
circuit
thought. • Capacitance test
• Installation of ac converters into metal
"Technology Training that Works" we mean it! • Dissipation factor enclosures
Try us soon and see the difference. For more • Partial Discharge
• Surge test NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND
information, or a customized proposal to run
• Mechanical testing DEVELOPMENTS
any of our practical workshops at your own
venue, contact your nearest business • Online testing SUMMARY, OPEN FORUM & CLOSING
development manager for manager (see page
32).

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