CHAPTER VII HIGHER HARMONICS IN INDUCTION MOTORS 88. The usual theory and calculation of induction motors, .■is discussed in '* Theoretical Elements of Electrical Enginccr- ing" and in "Theory and Calculation of Alternating-current Phenomena," is based on the assumption of the sine wave. That U, it is assumed that the voltage impressed upon the motor per phase, and therefore the magnetic flux and the current, KM sine waves, and it is further assumed, that the distribution of the winding on the circumference of the armature or primary, is sinusoidal in space. While in most eases this is sufficicntly the ease, it is not always so, and especially the space or air-gap distribution of the magnetic flux may sufficiently differ from sine shape, to exert an appreciable effect on the torque at lower speeds, and require consideration where motor action and braking action with considerable power is required throughout the entire range of speed. Let then: r — iji cos * + e» cos (3 * — a,) + es cos (5 * — at) 4- e? cos (7* - a-) + e, cos (9 * - a„) + . . . (1) be the voltage impressed u|hjn one phase of the induction motor. If the motor is a quarter-pha.se motor, the voltage of the second motor phase, which lags 90° or behind the first motor phase, is: = e,eos^«- gj + c3 + 8) eos (? 0 3*- cos(.5«- •(♦-$■ A3*- 1 . cost 3 - «■( + *}) + etcoalS - + «odb(7#-«t + 5) + *«*(&* -■•-£) + ■ • ■ W The magnetic flux produced by these (wo voltages thus con- sists of a series of component fluxes, corresponding respective]] HIGHER HARMONICS 145 to the successive components. The secondary currents induced by these component fluxes, and the torque produced by the secondary currents, thus show the same components. Thus the motor* torque consists of the sum of a series of components: The main or fundamental torque of the motor, given by the usual sine-wave theory of the induction motor, and due to the fundamental voltage wave: ei cos 0 ] Iju *\ (3) d cos \ ~ 2) is shown as T\ in Fig. 55, of the usual shape, increasing from standstill, with increasing speed, upj to a maximum torque, and then decreasing again to zero at synchronism. The third harmonics of the voltage waves are : e3cos(3 0 — a3), j e3cos(3 0- «» + 5)-| (4) As seen, these also constitute a quarter-phase system of voltage, but the second wave, which is lagging in the funda- mental, is 90° leading in the third harmonic, or in other words, the third harmonic gives a backward rotation of the poles with triple frequency. It thus produces a torque in opposite direc- tion to the. fundamental, and would reach its synchronism, that is, zero torque, at one-third of synchronism in negative direction, or at the speed - * - a7) 18 IT (6) + e9cos(90- Qir~a»)+ • = 61 cos (0 — «- J + e% cos (3 4> — a8) + eb cos (5 0 - a5 + q~) + e7 cos ( 7 - a7 - ^ J + e9 cos (9 4> — ag) + . e" = 61 cos ( 0 — -s J + e8 cos (3 0 — a8) + e& cos (5 0 — «* + ■ 3*) + e7 cos ( 7 0 - a7 - «- j + e9 cos (9 4> — ag) + • Thus the voltage components of different frequency, impressed upon the three motor phases, are : ei cos * rj COR n cos e? cos r* cos (3 4> - aa) (5* - a4) (7* - a;) (9 * - a») ei cos / 2t\ ft cos es cos / 2t\ e 7 cos / 2f\ r» cos (♦-t) (3 0 - oa) ^♦-« + --j 17* - ai -t) (9 0 - a.) ei cos (-¥) f 3 cos (3 0 - ai) f 5 cos (5*-°'+V) ei 00s (7* - ai -t) n cos (9 0 - a») \ / Fundamental.... 1 3d \ / 5th 7th 9th 148 ELECTRICAL APPARATUS As spm, in this case of the three-phase motor, the third harmonics have no phase rotation, but are in phase with each other, or single-phase voltages. The fifth harmonic gives backward phase rotation, and thus negative torque, while the seventh harmonic has the same phase rotation, as the funda- menlal, thus adds its torque up to its synchronous speed, S = + \i, and above this gives negative or generator torque. The ninth harmonic again is single-phase. Fig. 56 shows the Fundamental torque, 5ft, the higher harmonics ,..!. •" s i T,, 1 THREE PHA INDUCTION UIC E TO 1 \ \i s *T n T v3 ^ Tt ~\r T; T[ ' Fig. 56. — HtrBC-ph;ini> inilii<-t.inn motor, component harmonica and resultant torque. of torque, T& ami 5T;, and the resultant torque, T. As seen, the distortion of the torque curve is materially less, due In 1 lie absence, in Fig. 50, of the third harmonic torque. However, while the third harmonic (and its multiples) in the three-phase system of voltages are in phase, thus give no phase rotation, they may give torque, as a single-phase induction motor has torque, at speed, though al standstill the torque is eero. Fig. 57 Ii shows diagrammatical ly, as T, the development of the air-gap distribution of a hue three-phase winding, such as used in synchronous converters, etc. Each phase 1, 2, 3, coi an one-third of the pitch of a pair of poles or -5-, of the upper layer, HIGHER HARMONICS 149 and its return, 1', 2', 3', covers another third of the circumference of two poles, in the lower layer of the armature winding, 180° away from 1, 2, 3. However, this type of true three-phase wind- ing is practically never used in induction or synchronous machines, but the type of winding is used, which is shown as S, in Fig. 57 C. This is in reality a six-phase winding: each of the three e Uddt N i; 2' 2o r 2' ■ 2' 1o 3' 2'a I KCffl N 2o 1 mm a r 2' ''^«a 2 3 i' r 3; 2' 3' 30 2 i; 3' 2i £ MtttMtt K ^ B r W ^_l r 3'ft 2' 77- & c Fig. 57. — Current distribution at air gap of induction motor, fundamental and harmonics. phases, 1, 2, 3, covers only one-sixth of the pitch of a pair of poles, or ~ or 60°, and between the successive phases is placed the opposite phase, connected in the reverse direction. Thus the return conductors of phases 1,2, 3 of the upper layer, are shown in the lower layer as 1', 2', 3'; in the upper layer, above 1', 2', 3', is placed again the phase 1, 2, 3, but connected in the reverse direction, and indicated as 10, 2o, 3o. As 10 is connected in the reverse direction to 1, and 1' is the return of 1, lo is in 150 ELECTRICAL APPARATUS phase with I', and the return of I..: I'o, is in the lower layer, in phase with, and beneath I. Tims the phase rotation is: 1,-3, 2, -1,3, -2, 1, etc. For comparison, Fig. 57 .4 shows the usual quarter-phase winding, Q, of the same general type as the winding, Fig.' 57 C. If then the three third harmonics of 1, 2 and 3 are in phase with each other, for these third harmonics the true three-phase winding, T, gives the phase diagram shown as 7*» in Fig. 57 D. As seen, the current flows in one direction, single-phase, through- out the entire upper layer, and in the opposite direction in the lower layer, anil thus its magnetizing action neutralizes, that is, there can be no third' harmonic flux in the true three-phase winding. The third harmonic diagram of the customary six-phase ar- rangement of three-phase winding, S, is shown as iS3 in Fig. 57 E. As seen, in this case alternately the single-phase third har- monic current flows in one direction for 60° or „. and in the opposite direction for the next „. In other words, a single-phase m.m.f. and single -phase flux exists, of three times as many poles :is the fundamental flux. Thus, with the usual three-phase induction-motor winding, a third harmonic in the voltage wave produces a single-phase triple harmonic flux of three times the number of motor poles, and this gives a single-phase motor-torque curve, that is, a torque which, starting with zero at standstill, increases to a maximum in positive direction or assisting, and then decreases again to zero at its synchronous speed, and above this, becomes negative as single-phase induction-generator torque. Triple frequency with three times the number of poles gives a synchronous speed of S = +}(>. That is, the third harmonic in a three-phase vol- tage may give a single-phase motor torque with a synchronous speed of one-ninth that of the fundamental torque, and in cither direction, as shown as Tj in dotted lines, in Fig. 56. As usually the third harmonic is absent in three-phase vol- tages, such a triple harmonic single-phase torque, as shown dotted in Fig. 56, is of rare occurrence: it could occur only in a four-wire three-phase system, that is, system containing the three phase-wires and the neutral. 90. All the torque components produced by the higher har- monics of the voltage wave have the same number of motor poles HIGHER HARMONICS 151 as the fundamental (except the single-phase third harmonic above discussed, and its multiples, which have three times as / \_ ! /_ 8INE - Q-0 - S-0 T-o Q-fc r£Vis\ II^L^,— rJZI s-Vs Q-'/i . J. \ Q-'A L- iznzr ZL s-'/t £\ Fig. 58. — Current and flux distribution in induction-motor air gap, with different types of windings. many motor poles), but a lower synchronous speed, due to their higher frequency. Torque harmonics may also occur, having the fundamental 152 ELECTRICAL APPARATUS frequency, but higher number of pairs of poles than the Funda- mental, and thus lower synchronous speeds, doe to the deviation of the space distribution of the motor winding from sine, The fundamental motor torque, I\, of Figs. 55 and 56, is given by ft sine wave of voltage and thus of flux, if the winding of each phase is distributed around the circumference of the motor air gap in a sinusoidal manner, as shown as F under " Sine," in Fig. 58, and the flux distribution of each phase around the circum- ference of the air gap is sinusoidal also, as shown as * under "Sine," in Fig. 58. This, however, is never the ease, but the winding is always distributed in a non-sinusoidal manner. The space distribution of magnetizing force and thus of flux of each phase, along the c i re u inference of the motor air gap, thus can in tin' general case lie represented by a trigonometw series, with to as space angle, in electrical degrees, that is, counting a pair of poles as 2jt or 3ti0°. It is then: The distribution of the conductors of one phase, in the motor air gap: = Fa J COS oj -\- flj cos 3 tu + i ; COS 5 C + + Or eos 7 n a eos 9 to + . (8) hen (he assumption is made, that all the harmonics are in phase, that is, the magnetic distribution symmetrical. This is prac- tically always the case, and if it were not, it would simply add phase angle, a„, to the harmonics, the same as in paragraphs 88 and 89, but would make no change in the result, as the component torque harmonics are independent of the phase relations between the harmonic and the fundamental, as seen below. In a quarter-phase motor, the second phase is located 90° or u) = - displaced in space, from the first phase, and thus represented by the expression: F'= PojoOfl(« - *) + »scos(3 w - 32") + U(.cos(5u - 52T) - a7cos(7 w - ■*) + " V\ + "' c°9 f 3 w + ^ + «;COS(7 cos 9u - " .(9.-IH HIGHER HARMONICS 153 Such a general or non-sinusoidal space distribution of magnetiz- ing force and thus of magnetic flux, as represented by F and F', can be considered as the superposition of a series of sinusoidal magnetizing forces and magnetic fluxes : as cos 5co m (5 « - D COS CO cos (• - J) CL? COS 7 CO a7cos a 3 cos 3 to The first component : a3 cos (3 co + 1 j 09 cos 9 co a9 cos (9w- J cos CO, cos (co - p > a5 cos (10) (10) gives the fundamental torque of the motor, as calculated in the customary manner, and represented by 7\ in F*igs. 55 and 56. The second component of space distribution of magnetizing force : a3 cos 3 co, j (id a3 cos (3»+3 gives a distribution, which makes three times as many cycles in the motor-gap circumference, than (10), that is, corresponds to a motor of three times as many poles. This component of space distribution of magnetizing force would thus, with the fundamental voltage and current wave, give a torque curve reaching synchronism as one-third speed; with the third harmonic of the voltage wave, (11) would reach synchronism at one-ninth, with the fifth harmonic of the voltage wave at one-fifteenth of the normal synchronous speed. In (11), the sign of the second term is reversed from that in (10), that is, in (11), the space rotation is backward from that of (10). In other words, (11) gives a synchronous speed of S = —% with the fundamental or full-frequency voltage wave. The third component of space distribution : as cos 5 co, 1 a5 cos (»-3- (12) gives a motor of five times as many poles as (10), but with same space rotation as (10), and this component thus would give a torque, reaching synchronism at S = +^. 1.54 ELMCTRtCAL APPARATUS In the same manner, the seventh space harmonic gives S «* —%, the ninth apace harmonic S = + }■$, etc. 91. As seen, the component torque curves of the harmonies of the space distribution of magnetizing force and magnetic flux in the motor air gap, have the same characteristics as the component torque due to the time harmonics of the impioawd voltage wave, and thus are represented by the same torque diagrams : Fig. 55 for a quarter-phase motor, Fig. 56 for a three-phase motor. Here again, we see that the three-phase motor is less liable to irregularities in the torque curve, caused by higher harmonics, than the quarter-phase motor is. Two classes of harmonics thus may occur in the induction motor, and give component torques of lower synchronous speed: Time harmonies, that is, harmonics of the voltage wave, which are of higher frequency, but the same number of motor poles, and Space harmonics, that is, harmonics in the air-gap distribu- tion, which are of fundamental frequency, but of a higher number of motor poles. Compound harmonics, that is, higher space harmonics of higher time harmonics, theoretically exist, but their torque necessarily is already so small, that they can be neglected, except where they are intentionally produced in the design. We thus get the two elates of harmonics, and their characteristics : Quarttr- phair motor .- PKue tul»tion . Synchro noun tpwil Tim- II I F*«™™>' I No of polr* sp.«H(£etrnr! I No. ol polp» Phup rotation .... " HIGHER HARMONICS 155 • 92. The space harmonics usually are more important than the time harmonics, as the space distribution of the winding in the motor usually materially differs from sinusoidal, while the devia- tion of the voltage wave from sine shape in modern electric power- supply systems is small, and the time harmonics thus usually negligible. The space harmonics can easily be calculated from the dis- tribution of the winding around the periphery of the motor air gap. (See "Engineering Mathematics," the chapter on the trigonometric series.) A number of the more common winding arrangements are shown in Fig. 58, in development. The arrangement of the conductors of one phase is shown to the left, under F, and the wave shape of the m.m.f. and thus the magnetic flux produced by it is shown under <& to the right. The pitch of a turn of the winding is indicated under F. Fig. 58 shows: Full-pitch quarter-phase winding: Q — 0. Full-pitch six-phase winding: S — 0. This is the three-phase winding almost always used in induction and synchronous machines. Full-pitch three-phase winding: T — 0. This is the true three-phase winding, as used in closed-circuit armatures, as synchronous converters, but of little importance in induction and synchronous motors. %> % and J^-pitch quarter-phase windings: Q - H; Q - «; Q - «. %l % and J^-pitch six-phase windings: S - Ve; S - }£; s-y2. %-pitch true three-phase windings: T — J^. As seen, the pitch deficiency, p, is denoted by the index. Denoting the winding, F, on the left side of Fig. 58, by the Fourier series: F = Fo (cos co + a3 cos 3 co + a6 cos 5 co + a7 cos 7 co + . . . ). (13) It is, in general : IT JO Foan = - I F cosncodw. njo If, then: p = pitch deficiency, q = number of phases (14) 156 ELECTRICAL APPARATUS (four with quarter-phase, Q, six with six-phase, 5, three with three-phase, T); any fractional pitch winding then consists of the superposition of two layers: and From w = 0 to co = + rt- > q 2 from cj = 0 to co = — jr-t q 2 and the integral (14) become: r , Pw v Vt 4F| f« 2 A" 2 f ofln = - I <*os wcorfco + I cos ncodco ?r IJo Jo = - ■ ; sin n\ + ~ ) + sin /<( r~- J :■ 717T I \(J 2 / \<7 2 / J 8F . 717T »/?7T = — sin — cos ■ > q 2 1VK (15) as for: n = 1; an = 1, it is, substituted in (15) 8F .IT VTT ' sin cos rrt 9 2 hence, substituting (16) into (15) : o„ = . nir pur sin — cos n _ 9_ _. 2 sin - cos - q 2 For full-pitch winding: p = 0. It is, from (17): (16) (17) «»° = sin sin nir (18) HIGHER HARMONICS 157 and for a fractional-pitch winding of pitch deficiency, p, it thus is : VWK cos 2 a„ = a„° — • (19) cosT 93. By substituting the values: q = 4, 6, 3 and p = 0, %, Hj %} into equation (17), we get the coefficients an of the trigonometric series: F = Fq { cos co + a3 cos 3 co + a6 cos 5 co + a7 cos 7w+ . . . } , (20) which represents the current distribution per phase through the air gap of the induction machine, shown by the diagrams F of Fig. 58. The corresponding flux distribution, $, in Fig. 58, expressed by a trignometric series: + 63 sin 3 w + 65 sin 5 co + 67 sin 7 co + . . . | (21) could be calculated in the same manner, from the constructive characteristics of $ in Fig. 58. It can, however, be derived immediately from the consideration, that $ is the. summation, that is, the integral of F: & = J>dco (22) and herefrom follows: bn = * (23) and this gives the coefficients, bn, of the series, 4>. In the following tables are given the coefficients an and bn, for the winding arrangements of Fig. 58, up to the twenty-first harmonic. 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