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INDUCTION MOTOR

GENERAL PRINCIPLE
PHOLYPHASE INDUCTION MOTOR
• GENERAL RULE : ELECTRICAL POWER CONVERTS TO MECHANICAL
POWER HAPPENS AT ROTATING PART OF AN ELECTRICAL MOTOR.
ADVANTAGES • VERY SIMPLE AND EXTREMELY RUGGED AND
• A.D.C MOTOR CAN BE CALLED CONDUCTION MOTOR.
ALMOST UNBREAKBLE CONSTRUCTION.
• LOW COST AND RELIABLE
• IN A.C MOTORS, ROTORS DO NOT RECEIVE ELECTRICAL POWER
• HIGH EFFICIENCY, BY RUNNING
NORMAL
CONDUCTION BUT BY INDUCTION. SUCH MOTORSCONDITION,
ARE ALSOBRUSHES
CALLEDNOT NEEDED HENCE
FRICTIONAL LOSSES ARE REDUCED AND GOOD
INDUCTION MOTOR. DISADVANTAGES SPEED CANNOT
• POWER FACTOR. BE VARRIED WITHOUT
SAGRIFICING
• MINIMUM SOME OF ITS EFFICIENCY.
MAINTENANCE
• INDUCTION MOTOR CAN BE TREATED AS ROTATING TRANSFORMER.
LIKE
• • NEEDS ANO
D.C. SHUNT
EXTRA MOTOR,MOTOR
STARTING SPEED DECREASES
AND HAS
WITH
NOT TOINCREASE IN LOAD. STARTING IS
BE SYNCHRONISED.
• OF ALL THE A.C. MOTORS, PHOLYPHASE INDUCTION
• SIMPLE
MOTOR
STARTING
IS ISTHE
TORQUE IN
ESPECIALLY INFERIOR TO THAT
SQUIRREL-CAGE A D.C
TYPE
ONE EXTENSIVELY IN INDUSTRIAL DRIVES. SHUNT MOTOR.
MOTOR.
CONCTRUCTION

• AN INDUCTION MOTOR CONSIST ESSENTIALLY IN TWO MAIN PARTS. A STATOR AND A ROTOR.
• STATOR – IN PRINCIPLE, SAME AS THAT OF A SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR OR GENERATOR.
- IT’S MADE UP OF NO. OF STAMPINGS.
- CARRIES A 3 PHASE WINDING AND IS FED ROM 3 PHASE SUPPLY.
- THE GREATER NO. OF ITS POLES AND THE LESSER THE SPEED, VICE VERSA.
• ROTOR – 2 KINDS OF ROTOR ; SQUIRREL-CAGE ROTOR AND PHASE WOUND OR WOUND
ROTOR.
KINDS OF ROTOR

• SQUIRREL-CAGE ROTOR – ALMOST 90 % OF INDUCTION MOTOR IS THIS TYPE BECAUSE IT


HAS THE SIMPLEST AND MOST RUGGED CONTRUCTION AND ALMOST INDESTRUCTIBLE.
- THE ROTOR CONSIST OF A CYLINDRICAL LAMINATED
CORE WITH PARALLEL SLOTS.

• PHASE WOUND ROTOR – THIS TYPE IS PROVIDED WITH 3- PHASE, DOUBLE LAYER, DISTRIBUTED
WINDING CONSISTING OF COILS AS USED IN ALTERNATORS. THE ROTOR IS
WOUND AS MANY POLES AS THE NUMBER OF STATOR POLES AND IS ALWAYS
WOUND 3-PHASE EVEN WHEN THE STATOR IS WOUND 2-PHASE.
HOW DOES AN INDUCTION MOTOR WORKS?

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