Electrical Maintenance

Planning and Scheduling

Introduction

It is estimated that electrical motors and other rotating equipment use about 50% of the total electrical energy
consumed in the world today. The cost of maintaining electrical motors can be a significant amount in the budget item
of manufacturing and mining industries.

This course will give you a thorough understanding of electrical motors' working, maintenance and failure modes and
provide you with the tools to maintain and troubleshoot electrical motors. You will gain an understanding of the
installation, operation and troubleshooting of electric motors.

Typical applications of electric motors in mining, manufacturing, materials handling and process control will be
covered in detail. You will also learn the basic steps in specifying, installing, wiring and commissioning motors. The
concluding section of the course will provide you with the fundamental tools in troubleshooting motors confidently and
effectively.

Objectives

At the end of the course participants will be:

• Understand AC & DC motor operation and construction
• Specify, select and install motors
• Specify protection requirements for motors
• Install and commission motors
• Fix faults on motors
• Interpret motor performance curves
• 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
Outline

Day 1:

FUNDAMENTALS OF MOTOR TECHNOLOGY

DC MOTOR THEORY, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE

• Basic construction and physical configuration and windings

• Principles of operation and performance
• Theory of operation
• Types of DC motors
• Separately excited motors
• Series motors
• Shunt motors
• Compound motors
• Long compound motors
• Short compound motors
• Insulation and cooling requirements

Day 2:

AC MOTOR THEORY, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE

• Basic construction and physical configuration and windings

• Principles of operation and performance

THREE PHASE AC INDUCTION MOTORS

• Components
• Theory of operation
• Induction motor design
• Duty cycles
 • Insulation and cooling requirements
• Starting methods
• Selecting motors
• Maintenance of AC machines
• Types of faults, fault finding and testing of AC machines
• Testing instrumentation

Day 3:

PROTECTION OF DC & AC MOTORS

• Protective devices
• Thermal overload
• Over current/overload
• Under-voltage/over-voltage
• Under frequency for AC machine
• Current unbalance for 3-phase machine
• Earth fault protection
• Pole slip/out of step
• Stall protection/acceleration time/start

Day 4:

SPEED CONTROL OF ELECTRICAL MOTORS

• DC Motor Control
• Induction Motor Control
• Introduction to variable speed drives or
• power electronic converters
• Types and designs of variable speed
• Synchronous Motor Control
• Resonance
• Reluctance Machine (Concepts and Torque & Cur-rent of RM)
• Stepping Motors (Concepts and Torque & Current of Stepping Motors)
THE SELECTION OF AC CONVERTORS FOR VARIABLE

• SPEED DRIVE APPLICATIONS

• Selection procedure
• Nature of the load
• Selection of correct size motor and converter

Day 5:

Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Motors

• Characteristics of motors
• Enclosures and cooling methods
• Design characteristics
• Insulation of AC motors
• Failures in three-phase stator windings
• Predictive maintenance
• Motor troubleshooting
• Diagnostic testing for motors
• Repair and refurbishment of AC induction motors
• Motor Temperature Classification
• Motor Insulation Classification
• Frame classification
• Variable speed drives ( VFD - Frequency controllers Principle of operation )
• Vibration analysis •
Who Should Attend

Typical personnel who would benefit are:

• Plant Engineers
• Operations Personnel
• Electrical Maintenance Technicians
• Mechanical Engineers
• Service & Maintenance Technicians
• Electrical Maintenance Supervisors

Duration
5 Days