Vol 87, No 10 (2016)

The construction of new disk induction motors of block-module type, which are a part of motor-transformer units (MTUs), are considered. The induction motors are intended for operation in hermetic objects under extreme conditions: a gas, steam-to-gas, and liquid environment at high pressures (up to 150MPa) and temperature (up to +600°C). The primary winding of the transformer part of the unit is connected to a three-phase network, and the secondary z-phase bar winding is located in Z grooves of the magnetic conductor of a transformer closed on one side by a short-circuited ring. The motor part of the unit contains an induction motor with a short-circuited rotor and stator with bar uninsulated winding connected to the transformer secondary winding; on the opposite side, it is closed by a short-circuited ring. The induction motor can be implemented with a disk short-circuited rotor located between two disk stators with bar windings. The bars of the transformer secondary winding are connected with Z bar-shaped hermetic lead-ins installed in a hermetic partition. Each bar-shaped hermetic lead-in is connected at the other end with n bars of the stator winding through intermediate conductive arc-shaped segments adjoining the stator. The operating principle and operation features of new disk induction motors of block-module type are considered.

Results of the design and application of new mechatronic systems with dc motors and transistor power transducers for mining excavators are considered. Intelligent motion control provides a high dynamic performance and individual adjustment of drives, eliminating impacts and passing into critical zones. The application of modern dc motor transistor transducers makes it possible to reduce power consumption by 20–30% compared to conventional excavators with Ward–Leonard drives and to reduce the specific power intensity of excavation. The power factor of the excavator is maintained constant and equal to a specified value in all operating modes, which ensures optimum electromagnetic compatibility of the excavator and a feeder line. New intelligent systems provide full control of all the main operating parameters of the excavator, loads on the working bodies, and the condition of all equipment components, as well as analysis and presentation in tabular and graphical form of the basic technological parameters of excavator performance (a volume of loaded mined rock, productive time, energy consumption, etc.). Intelligent systems contain a remote monitoring module. Results of the design and experience in commercial production and operation of mechatronic systems for single-bucket mining excavators with transistor power transducers as a part of main motion electric drives are given.

In conventional transmission line protection, a distance relay is used to provide the primary as well as remote backup protection. The voltage and current phasors measurement needed by the distance relay for determining the impedance may be affected by the power disturbances such as power swing. Consequently, this power swing may cause mal-operation of Zone three distance relays which in turn may affect on the reliability of the whole protective scheme. To mitigate these effects and hence improve the relay reliability, this work proposes a new real-time power swing detector using phasor measurement units for blinding the distance relay only during this transient disturbance. However, this developed detector will not block relay when the power swing accompanied with faults. To validate the present work, the performance of developed enhanced distance relay is tested by signals generated by Simulink/MATLAB simulator under different conditions. The test results show that this proposed scheme provides good discrimination between the transient currents and the fault current which in turn it may contribute in enhancing the reliability of Distance relay.

Reconfiguration according to different criteria is an important problem in distribution systems. This paper presents a new method for optimal multi-objective reconfiguration of distribution system based on the Galaxy-based Search Algorithm (GbSA). To avoid the convergence problem, the input and output data are normalized in the same range using fuzzy sets. The main objectives of the proposed algorithm have been considered as power loss reduction, voltage profile improvement and increase of the system load balancing. The proposed technique has been investigated using the IEEE 33-bus test system and a real distribution network i.e. Tai-Power 11.4-kV distribution system. The obtained results revealed the superiority of the proposed fuzzy-GbSA method in terms of accuracy compared to the GbSA and other intelligent search algorithms such as Genetic Algorithm (GA) or Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Furthermore, the proposed algorithm efficiently converged to the optimum solution compared to the other intelligent counterpart algorithms.