Fault Diagnosis of a Rotating Rectifier in a Wound-Rotor Synchronous Starter/Generator in the Generation Mode

Chenghao Sun, Weiguo Liu, Xu Han, Ningfei Jiao, Ke Shen, Rui Wang, Shuai Mao, Kunming Wang

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Abstract

Accurate and timely fault diagnosis of the rotating rectifier for a wound-rotor synchronous starter/generator is of great importance to improve system reliability. In the generation mode of the system, there is one idle stator winding of the main exciter. The terminal voltage characteristic of the idle stator winding is analyzed, and a novel fault diagnosis method for the rotating rectifier in the generation mode of the system is proposed. In this method, two feature voltages, namely the maximum peak voltage and any other peak voltage of the idle stator winding terminal voltage, are extracted through voltage sequence reconstruction to calculate the feature ratio for fault detection. The corresponding rotor position obtained by an inherent position sensor where the maximum peak voltage occurs is collected to determine the faulty diode location. The experimental results verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed fault diagnosis method.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4569-4582
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification
Volume8
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2022

Keywords

  • Fault diagnosis
  • rotating rectifier
  • starter/generator
  • wound-rotor synchronous machine

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