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Olli Liukkonen

Timo Holopainen

Markku Niemelä

Jari Jäppinen

Ville Särkimäki

Aron Szucs

Janne Roivainen

A field of electric drive devices and electric machines, such as electric motors and electric generators for industrial applications, and more particularly to a method, an arrangement and a frequency converter for controlling lateral vibration of an electric machine. The arrangement of the present invention for controlling lateral vibration of an electric machine includes a frequency converter, one or more vibration sensors and an electric machine, wherein the one or more vibration sensors is/are arranged for measuring the lateral vibration from the electric machine and for producing measured vibration data; and wherein the frequency converter is arranged for generating a control torque for exerting the control torque on the stator of the electric machine, the control torque being determined utilizing the measured vibration data.

Method, an arrangement and a frequency converter for controlling vibration of an electric machine

A field of electric drive devices, drivetrain systems and electric machines, such as electric motors and electric generators for industrial applications, and more particularly to a method, an arrangement, and a frequency converter for identification of torsional natural frequencies of a drivetrain system. In the arrangement for identification of torsional natural frequencies of a drivetrain system according to the present invention, the drivetrain system includes a frequency converter, an electric machine controlled by the frequency converter, and a driven/driving machine system connected to the electric machine, wherein the frequency converter is arranged for controlling the electric machine for producing mechanical excitation by the electric machine in the drivetrain system, the excitation effecting an excitation response in the drivetrain system; and wherein the frequency converter or a data analysis system of the arrangement is arranged for identifying torsional natural frequencies of the drivetrain system utilizing the excitation response.

Method, an arrangement and a frequency converter for identification of torsional natural frequencies of a drivetrain system

An arrangement for monitoring an antifriction bearing of a rotating shaft of a rotating electric machine. The arrangement includes: one or more capacitor electrodes to measure a capacitive shaft displacement parameter; one or more of the following additional measurement sensors; a microphone to measure a bearing noise parameter, a voltage sensor to measure a bearing current parameter, and/or an optical pyrometer to measure a shaft heat parameter; and one or more processors configured to evaluate a condition of the antifriction bearing based on the capacitive shaft displacement parameter and one or more of the following: the bearing noise parameter, the bearing current parameter, and/or the shaft heat parameter.

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