BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF MOTORS AND DRIVES:
In this segment, I will briefly review the diverse types of variable-speed drives used in the industry. For the most part, electronic AC and DC drives find their domination in manufacturing and commercial HVAC uses of today. This brief look at drive machineries will assist you, should you encounter any of these types in the future. In addition, I will also review the benefits and limits of each type. The types of drives I will consider are mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical/electronic (eddy-current coupling, and rotating DC).
MECHANICAL VARIABLE SPEED MOTOR DRIVE
SYSTEM:
As seen in Figure 1-7, the mechanical drive operates on the standard of variable-pitch pulleys. The pulleys are typically
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Size can also be a restriction. Typically, floor-mounted, this device sometimes stood 3-5 feet tall for general applications. Size and weight could prohibit the use of this device in areas that would be required for mounting a drive.
HYDRAULIC MOTOR DRIVES SYSTEM:
Hydraulic drives have been, and continue to be, the rock of many metals processing and manufacturing functions. The hydraulic motor’s small size makes it ideal for situations where high power is needed in very tight locations. In fact, the hydraulic motor’s size is 1/4-1/3 the size of an equal power electric motor.
Figure 1-8 indicates a hydraulic drive. In Figure 1-8, a constant- speed AC motor operates a hydraulic pump. The pump builds up the necessary operating pressure in the system to allow the hydraulic motor to develop its rated power. The speed control comes from the control valve. This valve operates like a water
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Andrew Nunez
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December 11, 2017 faucet—the more the valve is open, the more fluid passes through the system, and the faster the speed of the hydraulic motor. Note that this system uses a coupler to connect the AC motor to the pump. The benefits of this type of drive system is the ability of the hydraulic motor to develop high torque (twisting motion of the shaft). In addition, it has a justly simple control structure (a valve), which operates at a wide speed range and has an enormously
Question: 1 Young children can sustain serious injuries from ______, which deploy even in a low speed crash.
In Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive”, we follow our protagonist nicknamed “Lil Bit” on a gut wrenching, and downright disturbing journey through her adolescence, told as a series of narrations, monologues, and flashbacks with the occasional interjection of a PSA like voice over. The play recounts the physical and emotional abuse Lil Bit encountered from the ages of eleven to eighteen at the hands of her uncle Peck, while he teaches her to drive.
Generally, an electric motor is a machine which can transform electrical energy into mechanical energy. According to the power system, we can separate electric current flow into two classifications which are “Direct Current (DC)” and “Alternating Current (AC)”. DC and AC are two different forms of electric current flow, and they are provided and stored in different ways. For example, direct current can be provided by batteries or power supplies, and alternating current can be provided by sockets or generators. Based on using different types of power systems, there are two general categories of electric motors which are DC motors and AC motors. In addition, there are many different structures and functions of stators and rotors in the motor, so engineers develop different control theories to fit specific working situations. This paper is going to explain three control techniques in three aspects, illustrating how they work, exploring their advantages and disadvantages, and their
1. Chain Drives - The most frequently used and typically the least expensive. Chain drives use a metal chain to run. Unfortunately the trade off is a noisy motor. Should you have a detached garage or perhaps want to hear what time your children are coming home at night this might be a good option. But if you'd rather no noise, say because there are bedrooms above the garage, the chain drive might NOT be for you.
In a hydraulic system, force applied at one point is transmitted to the other by an incompressible fluid. The fluid used is mostly an oil of some sort and the force applied is usually multiplied in order to make reduce work done. To facilitate a hydraulic system, mostly cylinders and valves are used.
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High Speed Operation – A BLDC motor can operate at speeds approximately ten thousand revolutions per minute under loaded and unloaded conditions.
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The four stroke engines are used in lawn mowers, garden tractors, tillers, and washers. There is more than one type of four stroke engines. They are the horizontal-camshaft, side valve engine and the vertical-camshaft, side valve engine. Both of these types use four cycles four cycles in one full cycle.
AC drives are used in the industry on three phase motors. Three phase motors are highly preferable due to their high efficiency and high power outputs. The need to control these three phase motors speed, torque, and direction has led to the creation of the AC drive. AC drives come in all shapes and sizes with no two being the same. Being nonstandard the manual is necessary to properly program and wire the AC drive.
For this lab the model of the synchronous machine was already considered. The synchronous machine being used had a rating of 208-V (line-to-line rms), 60-Hz, and 200-W. It is a 4-pole machine with a synchronous speed of 1800 RPM. The open-circuit and short-circuit tests performed in this lab can
is the rotor resistor value and when the slip stays a very small value, then the s is also very small so it can be treat as a 0 value. is rotor induced EMF and it is in direct proportion to the voltage. Torque is in direct proportion to the s. Therefore, we know that torque T is also in direct proportion to . When we increase(decrease)the voltage supply, the torque will increase(decrease), therefore the speed increase(decrease). By changing the voltage supply we can achieve the speed control, this is the simplest way to control the speed. But not widely use in the real industry. Because: change a very large voltage but the speed only changes a little, the speed control range is too small. When the supply voltage has a sudden changing, the flux density in the motor, a sudden changing flus density will result a change in magnetic conditions of the motor. This result is not welcomed in the real condition of use. So changing the supply voltage is rarely used.[5][6]
Brushless DC motors is a kind of permanent magnate synchronous motor. Permanent magnet synchronous motors are classified on the basis of the wave shape of their induce emf, i.e, sinusoidal and trapezoidal. The sinusoidal type is known as permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM); the trapezoidal type goes under the name of PM Brushless dc (BLDC) machine. Table (2.1) shows the difference between (PMSM) and (BLDC) motor.
Abstract— The paper presents an analytic insight into the speed control of a dc Motor drive using a more stout, prompt and stabilized technique than conventionally used. The desired dynamics are difficult to achieve with conventional controllers. New techniques are attempted in the literature to get the desired performance. Here, Sliding Mode Control — a robust and non-linear control, is considered. Its understanding is simple and the performance of the whole drive system is found to be much enhanced as compared to the conventional Proportional Integral Control method. In this paper, analysis of the dc drive is done when subjected to different circumstances of speed variations as well as load variations. It is then established that the range of speed under which the drive can operate — without changing the parameters of the controllers, is much wider with the Sliding Mode Control.