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Introduction: The Induction Motor Is A Three Phase AC Motor and Is The Most

The document discusses the induction motor, which is the most widely used AC motor due to its simple and rugged construction, low cost, high reliability, and high efficiency. It has two main parts - the stator and the rotor. The stator is made of laminated steel and contains slots for three-phase windings arranged 120 degrees apart. There are two types of rotors: squirrel-cage, which has conducting bars embedded in slots and short-circuited at the ends, and wound rotor, which has a three-phase winding connected to slip rings. An induction motor operates based on the principle of induction, where the rotating magnetic field in the stator induces current in the rotor to produce torque without direct electrical

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Introduction: The Induction Motor Is A Three Phase AC Motor and Is The Most

The document discusses the induction motor, which is the most widely used AC motor due to its simple and rugged construction, low cost, high reliability, and high efficiency. It has two main parts - the stator and the rotor. The stator is made of laminated steel and contains slots for three-phase windings arranged 120 degrees apart. There are two types of rotors: squirrel-cage, which has conducting bars embedded in slots and short-circuited at the ends, and wound rotor, which has a three-phase winding connected to slip rings. An induction motor operates based on the principle of induction, where the rotating magnetic field in the stator induces current in the rotor to produce torque without direct electrical

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Introduction: The Induction motor is a three phase AC motor and is the most
widely used machine. Its characteristic features areo Simple and rugged construction
o Low cost and minimum maintenance
o High reliability and sufficiently high
efficiency
o Needs no extra starting motor and
need not be synchronized
An Induction motor has basically two parts Stator
and Rotor
The Stator is made up of a number of stampings with slots to carry three phase
windings. It is wound for a definite number of poles. The windings are geometrically
spaced 120 degrees apart. Two types of rotors are used in Induction motors - Squirrelcage rotor and Wound rotor.

A squirrel-cage rotor consists of thick conducting bars embedded in parallel slots.


These bars are short-circuited at both ends by means of short-circuiting rings. A
wound rotor has three-phase, double-layer, distributed winding. It is wound for as
many poles as the stator. The three phases are wyed internally and the other ends are
connected to slip-rings mounted on shaft with brushes resting on them. The brushes
are connected to an external resistance that does not rotate with the rotor and can be
varied to change the N-T characteristics. In fact an Induction motor can be compared
with a transformer because of the fact that just like a transformer it is a singly
energized device which involves changing flux linkages with respect to a
primary(stator) winding and secondary(rotor) winding.

2. Production of rotating magnetic field : An Induction motor operates on the


principle of induction .The rotor receives power due to Induction from stator rather
than direct conduction of electrical power. It is important to understand the principle
of rotating magnetic field in order to understand the operation of an Induction motor.
When a three phase voltage is applied to the stator winding , a rotating magnetic field

of constant magnitude is produced. This rotating field is produced by the contributions


of space-displaced phase windings carrying appropriate time displaced currents. These
currents which are time displaced by 120 electrical degrees are shown below-

We will now consider a stator structure depicted along with three phase windings. For
convenience, each phase is represented by a single coil (though the winding is
distributed in practice).The coil a-a represents the entire phase winding for phase a.
Similarly b-b and c-c represent the coils for phases b and c. Each phase winding
produces flux along its own flux axis and these axes are separated by 120 electrical
degrees. We will now determine the magnitude and direction of resultant flux
corresponding to three time instants say t1, t3 and t5.We know that the instantaneous
flux of each phase is given by-

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