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Three Phase Induction Motor Starting Analysis Using ETAP
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International Journal of Latest Technology in Engineering, Management & Applied Science (IJLTEMAS)
Volume VIII, Issue IV, April 2019 | ISSN 2278-2540
Three Phase Induction Motor Starting Analysis Using
ETAP
Dr. Aung Zaw Latt
Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Technological University (Maubin), Maubin, Myanmar
Abstract— Three phase induction motors are the most rugged speed, as well as to find out the effect of VFD and auto-
and the most widely used machines in industry and agriculture. transformer at motor starting period.
These motor are frequently started by connecting them directly
across the supply line. It draws a large starting current from the II. THREE PHASE INDUCTION MOTOR STARTING
supply line, about 5 to 7 times of the motor rated current. If this Three phase induction motors are theoretically self starting.
causes appreciable voltage drop in the supply line, it may affect The stator of this motor consists of three phase windings,
other loads connected to the line. In addition, if a large current which when connected to a three phase supply produces a
flows for a long time, it may overheat the motor and damage the
rotating magnetic field. This will connect and cut the rotor
insulation. Therefore, the motor bus voltage should be
conductors which in turn will induce a current in the rotor
maintained at approximately 80 % of the rated voltage while
starting. In this paper, ETAP (Electrical Transient Analyzer
conductors and produce a rotor magnetic field. The magnetic
Program) is employed to investigate whether the starting motor field produced by the rotor will interact with the rotating
can be successfully started under the operating conditions magnetic field in the stator and produce rotation. Therefore,
without starter. Moreover, one more objective of motor starting three phase induction motors employ a starting method not to
analysis is to present the use of VFD (variable frequency drive) provide a starting torque at the rotor, but to reduce heavy
and auto-transformer that devices can maintain the bus voltage starting currents and prevent motor from overheating; there
and reduce the large starting current while motor starting on the are many methods in use to start three phase induction motors.
system. In this paper, auto-transformer starter method and variable
frequency drive (VFD) method are used to study three phase
Keywords— motor starting analysis, VFD, auto-transformer,
induction motor starting (dynamic motor acceleration).
large starting current, three phase induction motor, ETAP
(A) Auto- Transformer Starter
I. INTRODUCTION This method reduces the initial voltage applied to the motor
T hree phase induction motors on modern industrial systems
and agriculture applications are becoming increasingly
larger. Some are considered large even in comparison to the
The motor can be connected permanently in delta or in
star, is switched first on reduced voltage from a three phase
tapped auto-transformer and when it has accelerated
total capacity of system’s power. During the induction motor sufficiently, it is controled to the running (full voltage)
starting period, the starting motor appears to the system as position.
small impedance connected to a bus. This motor draws a large (B) Variable Frequency Drive (VFD)
current from the supply line, about 5 to 7 times of the motor
rated current, which therefore results in voltage drops in the VFD is an electronic motor starting device (commonly
supply line and imposes disturbances to the normal operation applied to pumps, fan, etc.). It controls by power electronic
of other system loads. As the induction motor acceleration principles in varying the frequency of the input power to the
torque is dependent on motor terminal voltage, in some cases motor thereby controlling the motor speed. This provides
the starting motor may not be able to reach its rated speed reduced motor starting current, reduction in thermal and
because of very low terminal voltage. This makes it necessary mechanical stresses on motor and belts during starting, etc.
to carry out a motor starting analysis.
III. DESCRIPTION OF ETAP TO STUDY MOTOR STARTING
In this paper, dynamic motor acceleration is studied by
ETAP is the most comprehensive solution for the
using the ETAP (Electrical Transient Analyzer Program). In
simulation, design and analysis of generation, transmission,
the dynamic motor acceleration study, the starting motors are
distribution, and industrial power systems. In ETAP, each
modeled by dynamic models and the motor acceleration
research project makes available a set of users, user access
module simulates the entire process of motor acceleration.
controls, and a separate database in which its elements and
This method is used to investigate if a motor can be started
connectivity data are stored. All interface views are fully
and how much time is needed for the motor to reach its rated
graphical and the engineering properties of each circuit
element can be edited directly from these views. The results
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are displayed on the interface views. Generally, ETAP has respectively. The input data or parameters setting of this one
three modes of operation under Network Systems; Edit, AC line diagram are shown in Tables I to VIII. A system base of
and DC Study. The AC Study mode consists of analysis such 100 MVA has been used for all studies. Base values of
as load flow, motor acceleration, transient stability, short 12.47kV, 480V have been considered for various systems
circuit, and protective device coordination. voltage level.
For creating research project on motor starting studies,
similar to load flow study ETAP requires selection of mode of
operation of power sources, which are swing mode, voltage
controlled mode, power factor controlled mode, Mvar
controlled mode. After mathematical modeling of source
model, load model and with appropriate selection of operating
mode, different load flow method are used to find different
electrical parameter at different bus. Methods are used for load
flow and motor starting simulations to find different parameter
are; (a) Accelerated gauss seidel (b) Newton-Raphson method
(c) Fast decoupled method. Among three methods, Guess
Seidel method is the simplest method but it is used for small
networks. Numbers of iterations requires to converse it
depends on number of bus and therefore it takes long time to
converse and sometimes diverse also for big complex
network. Newton-Rapson method is the unique choice for
large industrial networks. It only takes 3 to 5 iteration to
converse irrespective of numbers of bus. Newton Rapson
methods some assumptions are made to simplified Jacobean
simplified version of N-R method and give almost very Fig. 1 One line diagram for 3-phase induction motor starting analysis
approximate solutions. According to load flow analysis, buses
Tables I Machine Input Data
are divided as generation and load buses where some
parameters are specified such as power and voltage at ID Type
Rating Connected Bus
(MVA) kV Bus Type
generation bus and active and reactive power at load bus. One
U1 Utility 100000 12.470 Bus 1 Swing Bus
bus in the network keeps as swing or slack bus. Here, motor
starting analysis is performed by simulating motor starting Tables II 2-Winding Transformer Input Data
from 1 to 10 seconds to understand better starting scenarios.
Rating Attitude % %
ID Standard
To work in dynamic motor acceleration after creating the MVA Pri. kV Sec. kV (m) Z X/R
research project, follow these instructions: (a) Click the edit T1 1.0 12.47 0.48 ANSI 1000 5.75 5.79
button and create the solution parameters for VFD and auto- T2 1.0 12.47 0.48 ANSI 1000 5.75 5.79
transformer setting (b) to check the load flow, go to load flow T3 1.0 12.47 0.48 ANSI 1000 5.75 5.79
mode by clicking the load flow analysis button with Newton-
Raphson method on the mode toolbar. The load flow results is Tables III Three Phase Induction Motor Data
now displayed on the one line diagram and achieved from the Rating
ID Type Class Model ID Load
report manager (c) Click the dynamic motor acceleration HP kV
button on the motor acceleration analysis toolbar to see the Mtr1 SGL2 HV-HS-HT LV200HP2P 200 0.48 PUMP
alert view and study the results on the one-line diagram (d) Mtr 2 SGL2 HV-HS-HT LV200HP2P 200 0.48 PUMP
Click the motor starting plot button to get the comparison
Mtr 3 SGL2 HV-HS-HT LV200HP2P 200 0.48 PUMP
results of three motors; motor 1 without starter, motor 2 with
VFD, and motor 3 with auto-transformer. (e) Click the report Tables IV Circuit Breaker Data
manager button to view any part of the output report.
Library Inter Size Ratd
ID Standard
IV. CASE STUDY: DYNAMIC MOTOR ACCELERATION ANALYSIS Model kV(max) Pole kA (Amp) kV
USING ETAP CB 1 ANSI MDL 0.6 3 50 600 0.48
CB 2 ANSI MDL 0.6 3 50 600 0.48
Fig. 1 shows one line diagram for dynamic acceleration
analysis of three phase induction motor. In this figure, the CB 3 ANSI MDL 0.6 3 50 600 0.48
parameters setting for transformers (T1, T2, T3), circuit
breakers (CB1,CB2,CB3), cables (1,2,3) and three phase
induction motors (Mtr1, Mtr2, Mtr3) are the same values
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Tables V Cable Input Data Fig. 3 (a) to (j) shows the comparison plot for dynamic
motor acceleration analysis of three phase induction motor
ID Library Length (ft) Phase
without starter, with VFD, and with auto-transformer on the
Cable 1 0.6 LALN3 100 3 same system.
Cable 2 0.6 LALN3 100 3
Cable 3 0.6 LALN3 100 3
Tables VI VFD Starting Device
Switch Values V/HZ Ctrl
ID Motor Type
ing % % Type
VFD Mtr2 Frequency 0 0 960 Ramp
control 3 50 960 Ramp
6 100 960 Fixed
(a) % of motor speed – time
Tables VII VFD Input Data
In Fig. 3 (a), the motor speed starts at 1 second with 0 % of
% %
ID kVA kV FLA Hz
Imax PF rated speed for all motors, and rises to 100% of rated speed at
VFD 1 447 0.48 538 50 150 100 7 seconds with VFD, at 8.3 seconds with auto-transformer,
and at 7.7 seconds without starter. By using variable
Tables VIII Auto-transformer Starting Device frequency drive, the speed of motor 2 can be successfully
Ctrl started earlier than other two motors.
Type Motor Switching Values % Unit
Type
Auto-Xfmr Mtr3 0 Sec. 85 % Ramp
4 Sec. 100 Fixed
5 Sec. Remove
After creating the research project as shown in Fig. 1, load
flow analysis is run with Newton- Raphson method. This load
flow analysis is shown in Fig. 2
(b) % of load torque – time
In Fig. 3 (b), the load torque of all motors start at 1 second
with 10 % of rated load torque. The load torque rises to 92%
of rated load torque at 7 seconds for motor 2, at 8.3 seconds
for motor 3, and at 7.7 seconds for motor 1. As a result, by
using variable frequency drive, motor 2 can be achieved to
steady state values of load torque within 7 seconds.
Fig. 3 (c) shows that all motors can provide the identical
torque values (92% of rated load torque) at it’s steady state
time although the starting values of motor torque are different.
Fig. 2 Load flow analysis of test model
(c) % of motor torque – time
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shows there is no reactive power demand for motor 2.
Moreover, it can be seen that the reactive power demand for
starting motor 3 is less than motor 1 (without starter).
Therefore, the total energy of the system can be saved
significantly at motor starting by using VFD, and auto-
transformer.
(d) % of acceleration torque – time
In Fig. 3 (d), the acceleration torque of motor 2 and motor 3
are less than motor 1 at starting time. However, all motor can
operate with 92% of rated load torque because all motors are
zero acceleration torque at their steady time.
(h) Motor real power demand – time
In Fig. 3 (i), the bus voltage drop of motor 1 occurs 7.5 %
of bus norminal voltage, however the bus voltage drop of
motor 3 is 5% and the motor 2 is approximately 0.01 % of bus
norminal voltage at starting time. It is show that the buses
voltage of motor 2 and motor 3 can maintain at approximately
99.99 % and 95 % of bus norminal voltage (0.48 kV) at motor
starting time (1 second).
(e) % of motor slip – time
Fig. 3 (e) presents the slip of all motors are 100 % ( S= 1) at
starting time. And then the slip of each motors is arrived at 0
% (S=0). So, the induction machine is operating in motoring
mode ( 1 ≥ S ≥ 0). The difference between the rotor speed
and the synchronous speed of the rotating is called the slip.
(i) % of bus norminal voltage (bus 2,5,7) – time
(f) Motor real power output – time
(j) Motor line current – time
Fig. 3 Three phase induction motor’s dynamic acceleration analysis
In Fig. 3 (j), the line current of motor 1 and motor 3 are
600 % & 450 % of FLC (full load current) at 1 second , and
then the line current decrease until attaining a steady state
values about 99.99 % of FLC. The line current of motor 2 is
(g) Motor reactive power demand – time drawn 0 % of FLC at 1 second. The line current of motor 2
According to Fig. 3 (f), (g) and (h), the real power consume was increased gradually to reach about 140 % of FLC and
of all motors at the steady state is the same. But, Fig. 3 (g) then decreased immediately until achieving a steady state
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values about 99 % of FLC at 7 seconds. It can be seen that the starter can provide a motor to be started successfully with a
line current of motor 2 and motor 3 can be reduced while small current, the less voltage drop (can maintain bus voltage
starting time by the use of VFD and auto-transformer. As a near rated voltage), a small torque and saving energy during
consequence, the motor terminal voltage profile can be the starting period. As can be seen from Fig. 3 (a- j), the
increased. starting motor with VFD method is better than auto-
transformer starter.
V. CONCLUSION
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