Estimation of Stator Winding Temperature of a Three-Phase Induction Motor

Authors

• Afrah Thamer, Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mustansiriayah University, BaghdadFollow
• Amer Mejbel, Electrical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Mustansiriayah University, BaghdadFollow

Document Type

Original Study

Keywords

Control Engineering

Abstract

This paper adopted a thermal network method (TNM) based on Motor-CAD with MATLAB/Simulink software, and finite element method (FEM) based on MotorCAD with Flux2D software, to estimate the stator winding temperature of a totally enclosed fan-cooled (TEFC), squirrel cage, three-phase induction motor. The three software packages were adopted successfully with a good agreement among their results resulting in preferring using Motor-CAD in obtaining results, and using Flux2D with MATLAB to validate these results. The success of triple-software methodology will give the induction motor designer a well-validated tool in attaining a safe motor operation without exceeding the maximum allowable stator winding temperature rise, and without using an experimental test based on an expensive manufacturing motor.

How to Cite This Article

Thamer, Afrah and Mejbel, Amer (2019) "Estimation of Stator Winding Temperature of a Three-Phase Induction Motor," Iraqi Journal of Computers, Communications, Control and Systems Engineering: Vol. 19: Iss. 2, Article 2.
DOI: 10.33103/uot.ijccce.19.2.2
Available at: https://ijccce.researchcommons.org/journal/vol19/iss2/2