Induction motors performance under symmetrical voltage sags and interruption - Test result

Main source voltage sags are short circuit faults in power systems. These fault currents propagate entire the circuits connected with them. After the fault is removed by circuit breaker opened, the system voltage may recover to its normal value, the motor will re-accelerate during recovering process accompanied by high transient currents. This paper presents an experimental test to investigate effect of various characteristics of voltage sags such as magnitude, duration, repetitive and multistage of voltage sags on performance of induction motors. Several small induction motors were used to this purpose. Sag magnitude significantly influenced on the current peaks and speed variation whereas sag duration significantly influenced only on the speed. The motor responses to magnitude and sag duration in repetitive and multistage events are different.