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LEARNING CENTER MINING, ALUMINIUM AND CEMENT

Gearless Mill Drive – Operation and Maintenance

Cycloconverter – Protection functions
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Agenda

Cycloconverter – Protection functions

Network protection
Overvoltage protection line side
Overcurrent protection
Thyristor supervision
Overvoltage protection stator & rotor side
Ground fault supervision
Starpoint voltage supervision
Airgap supervision
Additional protection functions
Questions

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Network protection
Overvoltage
Undervoltage
Overfrequency
Underfrequency
PLL angle

LIN

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Overvoltage protection line side

Protects the thyristor against overvoltage by
surge arrestors
Supervised by fuse contacts by AC800PEC

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Overcurrent protection
Overcurrent trip level (input, output and motor)
parametrized
Input current phase R and T are supervised
LIN
Output current transducer capable of reading
low frequency currents

CombiIO

CombiIO

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Thyristor supervision
Fiber optic to LIN RC

The gate firing units (MV-GDR) continuously K G A

check the voltage over a pair of anti-parallel
connected thyristors to supervise the blocking
capability.
Resistor

Capacitor

A G K
Fiber optic to LIN

RC

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Thyristor supervision
The gate firing units (MV-GDR) continuously
check the voltage over a pair of anti-parallel
connected thyristors to supervise the blocking
capability.

BOD

BOD

PECMI

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Overvoltage protection rotor side

The rotor short-circuiter is either activated by
BOD element or by an de-excitation pulse given
by the LIN board
The current through the rotor short-circuiter is
supervised by the CombiIO

BOD LIN

BOD

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Ground fault supervision

Insulation resistance monitored to detect an
insulation problem in the stator against ground
at an early stage.
Typically >10MΩ during standstill
Below 2.4MΩ while operation due to the Voltage divider
Starpoint fuse
influence of the starpoint voltage supervision (in +CB)

protection

Bender

CombiIO
Motor starpoint

DCS800

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Starpoint voltage supervision

Fast monitoring of the machine winding neutral
point displacement by a voltage relay

Starpoint fuse Voltage divider

(in +CB)

Bender VME1 VME2

CombiIO CombiIO CombiIO

Motor starpoint

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Airgap supervision
The drive controller is continuously monitoring c
the airgap by capacitive sensors 7 8 9
Three sensors build one group, while one sensor
can be disabled
a = Airgap sensor AGS a
6 10 b
b = Extension cable
5 Airgap group 11
c = Conditioner box AGC
4 12

AGS

3 2 1
AGC CombiIO

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Additional protection functions

Cyclo differential protection
Two phase short circuit detection
High torque protection
Frozen charge detection
Over speed protection
Stall protection
Stator current unbalanced
Motor differential protection
Cooling unit circuit supervision

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Questions

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