MEG/UTE/SOP/01/2012 Rev 00 Effective Date-14.03.

2012

DOCUMENT PROCEDURE DOC.NO. MEG/UTE/SOP/01

DIVISION TQM & Shared services
DEPARTMENT MEG REV.NO. 00
SECTION Electrical Utilities REV.DATE 14.03.2012
TITLE LV Motor Maintenance Guidelines SHEET 1 of 5

1.0 PURPOSE : To introduce best maintenance practices for LV motors

2.0 SCOPE : This covers all departments of Tata steel, Jamshedpur
3.0 REFERENCE : i) NSC practices
ii) IS-900
4.0 DEFINITION : TBM- Time Based Maintenance, CBM- condition Based Maintenance
5.0 PROCEDURE : Maintenance procedure of all LV motors up to 690 Volts including Special Application Motors
6.0 ANNEXURE : N.A.
8.0 DISTRIBUTION: COEM
DY COEM
Chief,Electrical Maintenance,Iron Making
Chief,Electrical Maintenance, Steel Making
Chief, Mills & Utilities,Electrical Maintenance
Heads,IEM

PREPARED BY Vijay Kumar Singh APPROVED BY Ajit Kar

DESIGNATION Head,Electrical Utilities DESIGNATION Chief, MEG
SIGNATURE SIGNATURE
DATE 14.03.2012 DATE 14.03.2012

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GUIDELINES FOR LOW VOLTAGE (LV ) MOTOR MAINTENANCE(EXCLUDING SPECIAL APPLICATION MOTORS)

SI. NO. ACTIVITIES FREQUENCY RESPONSIBILITY ACCEPTANCE LIMIT REMARKS

1 OEM supplied motor basic condition to be Plant IEM

maintained (Fan cover, TB Gasket, TB Cover etc.).
CDT (Condition Diagnostic Tool)
1.1 Measurement of Motor IR (Insulation Yearly Plant IEM IR- >5 M Ohm CDT frequency may
Resistance), winding Resistance & Inductance. vary based on
Resistance & environment,
(IR Value measurement-Megger of 500V DC & Inductance between application and past
Resistance and Inductance measurement -Motor phases should not
Checker) failure data.
more than 15%

1.2 Use of temperature sticker at connection in motor Yearly Plant IEM <70 Deg. C
1
TB & MCC Cubicle.
(Maximum range of temperature sticker should
be 85 Deg. C) Note-All CDT values
1.3 Monitoring of motor body temperature , Bearing Yearly Plant IEM 1.3.1 Motor body & should be recorded for
temperature bearing temperature analysis & future
Should be <70 Deg. reference.
C

1.4 Monitoring of motor vibration Yearly Plant IEM Ref: ISO-2372 & IS- Reading of vibration
12075 to be compared with
previous reading i.e

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Vibration limit trend to be monitor

Up to 15 KW- Less than
1.8 mm/sec

Above 15 KW & up to
300KW- Less than 2.8
mm/sec

Above 300KW- Less

than 4.5 mm/sec

1.5 Inspection of motor JB, TB, MCC Cubicle Yearly Plant IEM

TBM (Time Based Maintenance)

2.1 Greasing in motor bearings to be done with As per Motor Plant IEM Greasing to be done
2 listening rod. Name Plate in running Condition

2.2 Cleaning & blowing of motor at site Yearly Plant IEM This may vary based
on site condition

OVERHAULING

3.1 LV motors overhauling at Electrical Repair Shop Based on Plant IEM Overhauling
CDT result frequency should be
decided by Plant IEM
3 based on CDT ,
failure history /
environment condition

3.2 LV motors ( having sealed bearings ) 3 Years Plant IEM Based on sealed
overhauling at Electrical Repair Shop bearing life

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PROTECTION

4.1 Up to 5KW Motors- Thermal overload One time Plant IEM 1.Three phase fault
relay/EOCR current and fault at
4.2 >5KW up to 15 KW-EOCR with at least Plant IEM which motor tripped
One time
overload protection should be recorded
4.3 >15KW up to 30 KW-EOCR with at least and analyzed before
One time Plant IEM each reset/restart
overload protection & Earth fault protection

4.4 >30KW up to 110 KW-EOCR with at least 2. Component

overload, Earth fault, Unbalance & locked rotor One time Plant IEM
selection chart (make
protection. wise) should be used.
4.5 > 110 KW-Composite protective relay (Like- One time Plant IEM
4 MICOM P211 C, Areva make)
4.6 Testing of Electronics motor protection relay 3years By lowering the
Plant IEM
setting

5.1 Installation of Space heater in motors operating One time Power arrangement of
in moisture /steam environment or install motor with space heater should be
5 proper design which can work without space heater Plant IEM such that, its power
in moisture/steam environment will be off when main
power put off.

GUIDELINES FOR SPECIAL APPLICATION LV MOTOR

Equipment ROT application Vertical & High VFD (Variable Power Houses- Crane application AC Motor
Motors (HSM Speed Motors Frequency Critical Motors
,LD#1 , LD#2 ,LD#3 (RPM-3000) Drive) Motor -
& TSCR , MM,NBM Note1 A+ A B C&D
Maint. Practices
& WRM)

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Insulation Monthly Yearly Yearly Yearly Monthly Monthly Quarterly Half Yearly
Resistance

Winding Monthly Yearly Yearly Yearly Monthly Monthly Quarterly Half Yearly
Resistance and
Inductance
CDT
Motor Quarterly Monthly Quarterly Fortnightly Monthly Monthly Quarterly Half Yearly
Temperature
(Body/Bearing/TB)

Vibration Half yearly Quarterly Half yearly Fortnightly Yearly Yearly Yearly Yearly

TBM Greasing Not Applicable As per motor name As per motor As per motor As per motor As per As per As per motor
plate name plate name plate name plate motor motor name plate
name plate name plate

O/H Overhauling 3 Years 5 years 5 Years 2 years 5 Years (to 5 Years (to 8 Years (to 8 Years (to
start with) start with) start with) start with)

Note1-Motor shall be VFD duty & Filter to be provided at O/P of drive)

A+ = Very critical (Hot metal crane in Steel Making area) , A = Critical (Down time leads to plant outage) , B = Important (Down time may /may not lead to plant outage)

C & D = General Purpose cranes (Ref: Internal to Tata Steel based on NSC learning)

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