CS14: High Vibration in Motors Due to Shaft Stray Current : Analysis and Resolution
May-26-2022
09:00 am - 09:30 am
To share with users of Turbo machinery/ Pumps, a very typical and practical learning about
repeated problems of high vibrations in newly commissioned electrical motors of two different
pumps in Crude distillation unit and Bitumen unit of Refinery.
The vibration spectrum indicated the domination of bearing fault frequencies. Motor bearings
(antifriction bearings) were found defective and hence replaced, but the phenomena got
repeated just after 2 months of replacement with similar defect frequencies as before.
After analysis of failed bearing it was revealed that the root cause behind high vibration was
generation of shaft voltage - leading to stray (leakage) current, which is unusual for HT motors
of these frame sizes.
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