WO2004114498A2 - Pompes electriques submersibles - Google Patents

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WO2004114498A2
WO2004114498A2 PCT/GB2004/002668 GB2004002668W WO2004114498A2 WO 2004114498 A2 WO2004114498 A2 WO 2004114498A2 GB 2004002668 W GB2004002668 W GB 2004002668W WO 2004114498 A2 WO2004114498 A2 WO 2004114498A2
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Michael Andrew Yuratich
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Harding, Richard, Patrick
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/12—Methods or apparatus for controlling the flow of the obtained fluid to or in wells
    • E21B43/121—Lifting well fluids
    • E21B43/128—Adaptation of pump systems with down-hole electric drives
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F04—POSITIVE - DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS FOR LIQUIDS OR ELASTIC FLUIDS
    • F04B—POSITIVE-DISPLACEMENT MACHINES FOR LIQUIDS; PUMPS
    • F04B17/00—Pumps characterised by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors
    • F04B17/03—Pumps characterised by combination with, or adaptation to, specific driving engines or motors driven by electric motors
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K1/00—Details of the magnetic circuit
    • H02K1/06—Details of the magnetic circuit characterised by the shape, form or construction
    • H02K1/12—Stationary parts of the magnetic circuit
    • H02K1/14—Stator cores with salient poles
    • H02K1/146—Stator cores with salient poles consisting of a generally annular yoke with salient poles
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    • H02K1/00—Details of the magnetic circuit
    • H02K1/06—Details of the magnetic circuit characterised by the shape, form or construction
    • H02K1/12—Stationary parts of the magnetic circuit
    • H02K1/14—Stator cores with salient poles
    • H02K1/146—Stator cores with salient poles consisting of a generally annular yoke with salient poles
    • H02K1/148—Sectional cores
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    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
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    • H02K15/00—Methods or apparatus specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining or repairing of dynamo-electric machines
    • H02K15/02—Methods or apparatus specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining or repairing of dynamo-electric machines of stator or rotor bodies
    • H02K15/022—Methods or apparatus specially adapted for manufacturing, assembling, maintaining or repairing of dynamo-electric machines of stator or rotor bodies with salient poles or claw-shaped poles
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    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
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    • H02K16/00—Machines with more than one rotor or stator
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    • H02K3/00—Details of windings
    • H02K3/04—Windings characterised by the conductor shape, form or construction, e.g. with bar conductors
    • H02K3/12—Windings characterised by the conductor shape, form or construction, e.g. with bar conductors arranged in slots
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    • H02K3/00—Details of windings
    • H02K3/04—Windings characterised by the conductor shape, form or construction, e.g. with bar conductors
    • H02K3/18—Windings for salient poles
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    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K5/00—Casings; Enclosures; Supports
    • H02K5/04—Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof
    • H02K5/12—Casings or enclosures characterised by the shape, form or construction thereof specially adapted for operating in liquid or gas
    • H02K5/132—Submersible electric motors
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K9/00—Arrangements for cooling or ventilating
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02K—DYNAMO-ELECTRIC MACHINES
    • H02K9/00—Arrangements for cooling or ventilating
    • H02K9/22—Arrangements for cooling or ventilating by solid heat conducting material embedded in, or arranged in contact with, the stator or rotor, e.g. heat bridges
    • H02K9/227—Heat sinks
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H02—GENERATION; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
    • H02P—CONTROL OR REGULATION OF ELECTRIC MOTORS, ELECTRIC GENERATORS OR DYNAMO-ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; CONTROLLING TRANSFORMERS, REACTORS OR CHOKE COILS
    • H02P25/00—Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by the kind of AC motor or by structural details
    • H02P25/02—Arrangements or methods for the control of AC motors characterised by the kind of AC motor or by structural details characterised by the kind of motor
    • H02P25/022—Synchronous motors
    • H02P25/03—Synchronous motors with brushless excitation

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  • This invention relates to motors and electronic drives for electric submersible pumps and compressors, and is concerned more, but not exclusively, with centrifugal pumps.
  • Submersible pumping is a well-established technique for extracting hydrocarbons from deep boreholes, where the natural pressure in the reservoir is insufficient to lift the fluid or gas to surface.
  • the technique is also used in water production.
  • the electric motors used for driving the centrifugal pumps are very elongated, sometimes of a length of more than one hundred times their diameter.
  • Electric motor shaft power output is defined as the ' product of rotation speed and torque. For a given physical size and type of motor there is a limit to the level of torque that can be produced, typically due to self-heating. A high-speed motor therefore provides a means for obtaining more power from the same length of motor, or the same power from a shorter length.
  • the output of a pump is normally given in terms of its hydraulic power, which is the product of flow rate and lifting pressure (in rationalised units).
  • Centrifugal pump technology is characterised by the power output being proportional to the cube of the rotational speed. This known relationship, sometimes termed the "affinity law", means that a relatively small increase in the rotational speed can give rise to a substantial power increase.
  • Centrifugal pumps are frequently made with hundreds of impellers threaded on a common shaft, each impeller adding a little to the lifting pressure. Reducing the number of impellers by increasing the speed would therefore afford an improvement in reliability.
  • the stator is made of steel laminations and copper windings, and the rotor of steel laminations with copper bars forming the winding known as a squirrel cage.
  • the rotor laminations are keyed to a shaft, this shaft providing the means of transmitting output torque.
  • the rotor poles are produced by induction or transformer action between the stator and the rotor, using a portion of the stator current.
  • the stator in addition, produces a rotating stator field due to the alternating current in its windings.
  • the rotor Since the transformer coupling to the rotor requires an alternating field in the rotor, the rotor must turn at a different (lower) speed than synchronous speed, producing a so-called slip frequency for induction.
  • variable speed drives It has become common to use variable speed drives to power these motors, rather than direct connection to the utility supply.
  • Variable speed drives first convert utility AC power, typically at 60Hz, to DC, and then by electronic switching convert the DC to a variable frequency alternating voltage.
  • the use of a variable speed drive confers advantages during starting when it can limit the motor current to a safe level, and during production when it can be used to manage flow rates. The latter is important when the changing characteristics of a reservoir are considered over its producing life.
  • variable speed drives by creating an artificial supply of 70Hz or more, can operate the motor at higher speed than when directly connected to the utility supply, this is a limited capability.
  • the elongated induction motor is not suited to high-speed operations due to internal losses and small mechanical clearances, and secondly at the medium voltages used (often several thousand volts rms) drive losses become very high. Performance is generally limited up to 80Hz or about 4500rpm.
  • a pump and induction motor assembly for producing 250HP may be 20 metres long. This slender assembly is difficult to handle and particularly subject to damage when being deployed into deviated or horizontal wells, since small deflections ofthe motor housing can cause the rotor to impact on the stator. Rotor vibration due to bearing wear or imbalance also increases the chance of rotor impact.
  • a further requirement of any high or low speed electric submersible system using variable speed drives is to minimise the deleterious effects of the electrical switching used to produce the alternating output voltages.
  • Switching events on the long cables used in submersible cable propagate as wave fronts that reflect at connections and most particularly at the motor terminals. These reflections cause voltage transients that can approach twice the original voltage, and hence destroy insulation to earth.
  • the motor voltage is presumed to be proportionally distributed through the turns of the stator winding, and the inter-turn insulation is less than that of the winding to earth.
  • An associated consideration for transients is the interference caused to data transmission systems used to convey data from instrumentation located in the well bore.
  • Positive displacement pumps have a flow rate essentially determined by a characteristic volume per revolution multiplied by rotation speed.
  • the torque demand at the pump shaft is determined by the back-pressure ofthe fluid column being lifted.
  • These pumps usually operate at low speeds of a few hundred revolutions per minute. Since shaft power is the product of rotation speed and torque, it follows that these pumps are also . characterised by extremely high torque demand. Where there is sand production with the pumped fluid and where the wells are deviated or horizontal, the rod connection to the surface has a very short working life. In these cases it is desirable to use a downhole motor with the positive displacement pump.
  • induction motors are inherently unsuited to low speed and high torque (although variable speed drives have improved their capabilities in this regard).
  • current installations rely on a gearbox to match the normal motor running speed and torque to the pump characteristics. This is also problematic as it is extremely difficult to make a reliable high torque gearbox in the small borehole diameter, and it is also expensive.
  • a motor having high torque at any speed including low speed is therefore preferable.
  • downhole electric motor having at least three phases and comprising a permanent magnet rotor and a stator bearing phase windings in slots in the stator, each phase winding incorporating a plurality of coils each extending through a respective pair of closed stator slots and surrounding a respective portion of the stator between said stator slots, and adjacent coils of different phases extending through opposite parts of a respective one of the stator slots.
  • a downhole electric motor having a rotor and a stator bearing phase windings in slots in the stator, the stator being made up of first and second concentric parts which together define the slots in the stator so as to permit the phase windings to be fitted to the first part prior to fitting ofthe second part to enclose the phase windings within the slots.
  • a projection is provided on one of the concentric parts for extending at least part ofthe way across one ofthe slots to separate adjacent windings within the slot.
  • the slots are substantially shaped to conform to the cross-section of the phase windings in order to provide close thermal contact and mechanical support between the phase windings and the surrounding material ofthe stator.
  • At least one of the concentric parts comprises a preassembled stack of laminations to which the other ofthe concentric parts is fitted to enclose the phase windings within the slots.
  • at least one ofthe concentric parts is cast from insulated ferromagnetic powder and is fitted to the other of the concentric parts to enclose the phase windings within the slots.
  • the invention also provides a method of constructing a downhole electric motor having a rotor and a stator bearing phase windings in slots in 1he stator, the method comprising the steps of fitting phase windings to a first part of the stator, and combining the first part with a second part of the stator concentric with the first part so as to enclose the windings within slots, a projection on one ofthe concentric parts extending at least part ofthe way across one ofthe slots to separate adjacent windings within the slot when the first part is combined with the second part.
  • the invention also provides a method of constructing a downhole electric motor having a rotor and a stator bearing phase windings in slots in the stator, the method comprising the steps of fitting phase windings preassembled with an outer layer of insulating material to a first part ofthe stator, and combining the first part with a second part ofthe stator concentric with the first part so as to enclose the windings within slots with the outer layer of insulating material serving to insulate the windings from the surrounding material ofthe stator.
  • the invention also provides a downhole electric motor having a first multiple-phase section and a second multiple-phase section and separate supply leads for supplying said first and second sections with electrical power from the surface.
  • the invention also provides a method of constructing a downhole electric motor having a rotor and a stator bearing phase coils in slots in the stator, the method comprising the steps of fitting open ended conductive loops within the slots in the stator, and closing the conductive loops to form the phase coils.
  • the invention also provides a permanent magnet motor having a rotor provided with permanent magnet means, and a stator coaxial with the rotor, wherein the permanent magnet means is provided with an anti-corrosion coating.
  • FIG. 1 schematically illustrates an electric submersible pumping system
  • Figure 1A is a block diagram of a variable speed drive
  • Figure 2 illustrates an embodiment of a downhole motor in accordance with the invention in cross-section
  • Figure 3 illustrates the embodiment of Figure 2 in axial section
  • Figure 4 illustrates the means of assembly of an elongated motor
  • Figure 5 illustrates a possible construction of a motor stator in a housing
  • Figure 6 illustrates an alternative construction of a motor stator in a housing
  • Figure 7 illustrates a possible rotor journal bearing
  • Figure 8 illustrates a possible rotor assembly
  • Figure 9 illustrates a bearing that creates internal support pressure
  • Figure 10 illustrates a known electrical representation of a permanent magnet synchronous motor
  • Figure 11 shows the electrical waveforms of an idealised permanent magnet synchronous motor
  • Figure 12 shows a known electrical circuit diagram for the output stage of a variable speed drive
  • Figure 13 shows the typical electromotive force of a trapezoidal-wound permanent magnet synchronous motor
  • Figure 14 shows the electrical waveforms of an idealised permanent magnet synchronous motor operated as a brushless DC motor
  • Figure 15 shows representative waveforms of the variable speed drive of Figure 12 for a motor when a variable output voltage or current is required;
  • Figure 16 shows representative waveforms of the variable speed drive of Figure 12 for aa motor when a variable output voltage or current is required, but with a low switching frequency
  • Figure 17 shows representative waveforms of the variable speed drive of Figure 12 incorporating practical switches when a high-speed motor is driven and a variable output voltage or current is required;
  • Figure 18 shows the known idealised characteristics of positive displacement pumps and centrifugal pumps, turbines and fans
  • Figure 19 shows an electrical circuit diagram providing efficient means for. varying the speed of positive displacement pumps and centrifugal pumps, turbines and fans by varying the internal voltage of a variable speed drive;
  • Figure 20 illustrates a means of providing the supply voltages to a variable speed drive in accordance with the invention
  • Figure 21 illustrates the improvement in efficiency provided by a variable speed drive in accordance with the invention
  • Figure 22 illustrates a known phasor diagram for the interpretation of the operation of an idealised permanent magnet synchronous motor according to Figure 10
  • Figure 23 illustrates a means of optimisation of the control of a permanent magnet synchronous motor by varying the variable speed drive output voltage in accordance with the invention
  • Figure 24 illustrates a means of rotor assembly of an elongated permanent magnet motor in a final position
  • Figure 25 shows a means of rotor assembly of an elongated permanent magnet motor in an intermediate position
  • Figure 26 shows a means of stator assembly of an elongated permanent magnet motor
  • Figure 27 shows a stator bore cross-section
  • Figure 28 shows a mandrel cross-section suited to the manufacture of a stator assembly of an elongated permanent magnet motor of the present invention
  • Figure 29 shows a bearing outer housing suitable for insertion in an elongated permanent magnet motor ofthe present invention
  • Figures 30 and 31 show schematic end views of the stator assembly of a motor in accordance with the invention, Figure 31 A showing a detail within a slot of the assembly;
  • Figure 32 schematically illustrates the assembly of such a stator assembly
  • Figure 33 schematically illustrates an improved pumping system according to the present invention
  • Figure 34 illustrates a motor for the pumping system of Figure 33
  • Figure 35 shows a further electrical circuit diagram for the output stage of a variable speed drive
  • Figure 36 shows an axial key between the stator and the housing for use in a motor of the present invention
  • Figure 37 shows a bearing outer ring suitable for use in a motor of the present invention
  • Figure 38 shows a cross-section through a coil suitable for use in a motor ofthe present invention
  • Figures 39a and 39b illustrate a possible means of forming a coil in such a motor.
  • FIG. 1 a representative installation of an electric submersible pump (ESP) is shown.
  • a borehole 101 drilled in the earth is sealed with respect to the earth from the surface to below a reservoir 102 with casing 103.
  • the casing 103 is perforated at 104 to allow reservoir fluid to enter the well.
  • a pump 107 is provided to lift fluid from the well up tubing 105 to the surface.
  • the tubing 105 is sealed to the casing 103 by packing 106 so that the reservoir fluid must go through the pump to reach surface.
  • a permanent magnet submersible motor 108 (PMSM) is mounted beneath the pump 1.07.
  • the connecting shaft of the motor 108 passes through a seal and pump thrust bearing assembly 109, often termed a 'protector'.
  • the pumped fluid passes over the motor 108 before entering the pump 107 and thus provides a certain amount of cooling of the motor 108.
  • a power cable 110 for the motor 108 is run up past the pump 107 and alongside the tubing 105 until it emerges at the surface wellhead and passes to a variable speed drive 111.
  • This drive 111 is powered by the utility supply 112 or a generator.
  • FIG. 2 shows a cross-section of an embodiment of PMSM in accordance with the invention comprising a central rotor and surrounding annular stator within a housing 202.
  • the rotor has a central shaft 201 for transmitting the output torque, and a plurality of magnetically permeable sleeves 203 carrying permanent magnets 204.
  • the sleeves 203 are torsionally locked to the shaft 201 by keys, shrinkage or other means in the art. It is preferable to make the sleeves 203 separate from the shaft 201 as shown, for reasons of mechanical stability, to facilitate assembly and to permit the optimum strength material for the shaft 201 to be chosen independently of the sleeve material.
  • the magnets 204 are preferably of a samarium cobalt composition as this gives the best economic performance at the temperatures commonly found in deep boreholes used for hydrocarbon production.
  • Other materials such as neodymium iron boron may be used in appropriate circumstances, or improved materials as they become available.
  • a retaining sleeve 205 preferably of metal, provides a durable means of retention. To avoid the use of materials which degrade during prolonged operation at high temperature, it is preferable to make the sleeve 205 a tight fit by shrinking it on, rather than depending upon tape, adhesives and fillers.
  • the sleeve 205 is preferably of one piece although, for ease of assembly, several shorter rings may be fitted adjacent to each other if required.
  • US 4742259 discloses a technique for fitting a sleeve with axial constraint.
  • rings 422 preferably made of non-magnetic, non-conducting material, may be slid onto the rotor sleeve 203, coming up against abutments 424, and the retaining sleeve 205 over the magnets 204 may be rolled over the outer faces of the rings 422, as at 425, thereby locking the whole assembly in place axially without the need for adhesives.
  • the magnets 204 are circumferentially disposed about the sleeve 203, and alternately poled in an essentially radial direction to cause a spatially alternating magnetic flux to cross the clearance gap 209.
  • Other magnet arrangements will be known to persons skilled in the art.
  • the entire motor and hence the gap 209 are filled with a benign fluid, such as a highly refined mineral oil, to balance the inside of the motor against the external wellbore pressure.
  • the magnets 204 are plated, for example in a vapour deposition process, with corrosion-resistant material such as aluminium, so that they may resist corrosion from any ingress of moisture into the motor or from other sources, and so that any small loose particles of magnet material will be sealed into the magnets and not come free to circulate within the motor bearing system.
  • corrosion-resistant material such as aluminium
  • tubular housing 202 Contained within the tubular housing 202 is a stack of thin magnetically permeable laminations 206 as may be seen more clearly in Figures 3 and 4.
  • Insulated wire preferably made of copper coated with high-integrity insulation such as polyetheretherketone or polyimide materials, is wound through the slots 207, and looped back 214 at the ends of the lamination stack as part of the coil winding process.
  • the wound lamination assembly constitutes the stator ofthe motor.
  • the PMSM motor constructed as described will have many desirable characteristics for submersible pumping, associated with the general nature of permanent magnet motors. For example, by providing a rotor flux from permanent magnets, there is no need to energise the rotor, unlike the field winding that requires separate power in an induction motor. This reduces the motor current by the amount needed for rotor magnetisation, which therefore reduces the ohmic loss in the stator windings and the power cable. It also eliminates the rotor cage winding and thus an internal source of heating. .
  • the copper within the stator is used only for the production ofthe rotating stator flux.
  • the inherent torque output for the motor which is derived from a product of space utilisation, rotor flux and stator flux, is very high compared to an induction motor. This torque is available at any speed.
  • the magnet thickness was 3mm and the clearance gap was increased from 0.25 mm to 1.25 mm, or 500%, the magnetic gap would only have increased 30%.
  • the motor With only a modest increase in the amount of. magnetic material it is possible to purposely design the motor to ensure a sufficiently large mechanical clearance such that at high speed the fluid in the clearance is turbulent. Above 5400 rpm for a rotor of diameter more than 50 mm a gap greater than 1.25 mm is preferred for this purpose.
  • a designer may use the known Reynolds number theory to estimate the needed gap size for other operating conditions, fluids and motor sizes.
  • turbulent flow ensures much more effective heat transfer between the rotor and the stator, so reducing the maximum internal temperature. At any speed the large clearance will reduce the likelihood of mechanical damage to the rotor during installation caused by bending of the outer housing, and also provide a measure of tolerance to contaminant particles.
  • the deliberately large gap reduces the eddy current losses, and hence heating, induced in the retaining sleeve 205 and magnetic material according to their conductivity. These losses increase approximately as the square of rotation speed, but diminish with distance from the lamination tips 210.
  • the inter- magnet spaces 213 may be filled but, unless care is taken to seal the cavity, particles of filler may dislodge over time and damage the motor. If required the cavities may be left unfilled. This is made possible by the sleeve 205, since it presents a low drag rotating surface to the clearance gap while making an enclosure to trap the fluid in the cavities. This trapped fluid is limited to bodily rotation or axial flow and does not contribute to friction in the clearance gap.
  • a further reduction in eddy current losses in the rotor can be obtained by laminating the magnets axially.
  • Rotor eddy current losses originate from flux harmonics in the stator, the eddy currents circulating on the face of the magnets and penetrating through the depth ofthe magnets and then into the steel that the magnets are bonded to.
  • Most ofthe ohmic losses resulting from this current flow are in the magnets, assuming the retaining sleeve is non-conducting or very thin, and the current flow increases with the face area of the magnets. Accordingly, in the same way that the stator steel is laminated to reduce the effect of rotor flux, the magnets can be laminated to reduce the effect of stator flux.
  • the face area is the width of the magnet times the continuous length ofthe magnet section. Therefore, by using a series of short magnets to make a continuous length that are electrically isolated from one another, where they would otherwise touch, the effect is to produce an axially laminated magnet. Practically the magnet ends may be coated with epoxy or varnish during assembl or spacers used. An approximately equal length and width of each magnet will be found to give a good reduction in losses while not unduly complicating manufacture. This method is unlikely to work usefully in motors of conventional length to diameter ratios as the magnet face area is already relatively small.
  • the PMSM so that the slots are fully closed or almost fully closed in the vicinity of the lamination tips 210. This ensures the retention of the winding without use of insulating retaining wedges that may degrade. It also reduces the cogging torque, that is the alternating accelerating and retarding torque developed as the magnets come into and out of maximum overlap with the teeth.
  • FIG. 5 shows a representative cross-section of a PMSM motor ofthe present invention constructed using known technology in the field of submersible induction motors.
  • a plurality of rotor assemblies is used to achieve the desired output power, the assemblies being rotationally locked to a common shaft 201 running continuously through the electrical section of the motor.
  • Shaft stability is ensured by bearings 401 between each rotor assembly.
  • These bearings 401 are commonly made of two concentric rings running freely one over the other, one keyed axially and rotationally to the shaft 201 and the other locked to the stator bore using thermal expansion caused by the motor's self- heating, or pegged in some way.
  • An advantageous feature of the motor design is that bearings are provided at each end of the stator to improve rotor stability.
  • FIG. 37 shows a bearing outer ring 3704 suitable for use with PMSM motors utilizing a spring clip 3702 fitted to the stator which engages in a shallow axial groove 3701 in the bearing outer ring 3704 (as may be best appreciated by referring to the inset view showing a section taken normal to the plane of the drawing).
  • the spring clip 3702 is preferably an open circular spring, such as a commercial circlip or steel wire, since this provides a natural axial resilient lead-in as the spring clip 3702 engages the bearing outer ring 3704.
  • the resilient lead-in allows the spring clip 3702 to push back to allow bearing insertion.
  • the bearing outer ring 3704 will rotate until the groove 3701 comes opposite the spring clip 3702, allowing it to expand and engage the groove 3701, thereby preventing further rotation.
  • a spring loaded pin or cantilever may also be used.
  • the stator is made of brass or possibly steel laminations 403 at the bearing sections.
  • stator- mounted spring clip 3702 To make the stator- mounted spring clip 3702 practical, . these laminations are preferably replaced by a single thick block 3703, cut as if it were a very thick lamination (slots not shown in Figure 37). This may be a casting. The spring clip 3702 is then mounted in a pocket in the block so that it cannot fall out during assembly. A small peg 3705 prevents the spring clip 3702 rotating.
  • An improved method of assembling the rotor illustrated in Figures 7 and 8 simplifies the bearing assembly and also the means of affixing the rotor sleeves 203 to the motor shaft 201, using a reduced number of parts.
  • the need to assemble the rotor with long solid sleeves 203 presents a problem in that a stable fit to the shaft 201 is necessary, but the required shaft straightness for closely fitting sleeves 203 to pass smoothly over the shaft 201 during assembly is very demanding.
  • the preferred means of assembly is to use support rings 411 as shown in Figure 7. These rings 411 are a close fit on the shaft 201 but, being short in length, will slide easily over it. Lands 415 provide a concentric fit for the sleeves 203 and shoulders 416 provide an axial abutment.
  • the bore of the sleeve 203 is only a loose fit on the shaft 201.
  • one or more sleeves 203 and support rings 411 may be threaded onto the shaft 201, and axially constrained by convenient means such as snap rings 414.
  • Each sleeve 203 must be rotationally fixed to the shaft 201 in order to transfer the motor torque, and each ring 411 must be prevented from rotation on the shaft 201 in order to eliminate wear.
  • a key 413 may be provided to accomplish this, in which case, during assembly, the ring 411 is first slid onto the shaft 201, then the key 413 is inserted into a groove 419 in the shaft 201 and within a locating notch 418 in the ring 411.
  • The. sleeve 203 has an internal groove 417 so that, when it is slid onto the shaft 201, it becomes rotationally locked to the shaft 201 by the key 413 and also prevents the key 413 from subsequently falling out.
  • a relatively short key such as the key 413
  • the portion of the shaft 201 under the sleeve 203 nearest the output end of the motor will carry a high torque accumulated from all the other sleeves. Particularly where multiple motors are comiected in series to increase power output, this torque can be very high. If the accumulated stress in the shaft 201 were to be shared with the sleeve 203 by way of a long key, there would be a risk that the magnets, being brittle, would fracture. (In submersible induction motors long keys are used to maintain all the laminations of the rotor in alignment, as well as to transfer torque.)
  • the simple expedient of twisting the stator will effect a compensating correction to a twisted shaft, and is similar to a well-known technique for reducing motor cogging torque.
  • the compensation of all these methods has variable effectiveness as the skew is fixed at one angle to compensate the angle of twist at one level of torque, and cannot therefore be correct at other levels of torque.
  • the amounts of twist referred to are very small, typically less than a degree, and the problem may not be significant if the motor is designed to maximise shaft diameter and hence resistance to torsion. Accordingly it is preferred to design elongated motors so as not to suffer from excessive shaft twist.
  • the sleeve 403 carries, or is integral with, the shaft bearing.
  • a ring 407 of bearing quality material such as that marketed under the tradename Deva Metal, may be pressed onto the ring 411.
  • the outer ring 420 ofthe bearing runs on the ring 407, and is axially captured by thrust washers 421 which themselves are captured between the sleeves 203 and the support rings 411.
  • Alternative arrangements for the bearings in which for example the support ring 411 is made entirely of bearing material, eliminating the ring 412, are possible within the scope of the invention.
  • the outermost rings 411 may be of modified shape as their outermost .ends do not mate to rotor sleeves.
  • Substantial heat of the order of 100W, will be generated within the bearing.
  • This heat is transferred to the laminations and thence the motor housing by two main means, namely conduction through the outer ring 420, and conduction through the support ring 411 and the rotor.
  • heat passes through the magnets near each bearing and across the oil-filled rotor/stator gap.
  • This second path though less direct than the first, will significantly raise the magnet temperature.
  • a thermal insulator in this path between the bearing ranning surface and the magnet such as may be provided by making the support ring 411 of ceramic, will increase the thermal resistance in this path, and thus reduce the magnet temperature rise.
  • the length of grooving 409 is a means of varying the pressure.
  • the grooving 409 being inherently a miniature pump, controls and also promotes flow of oil through the bearing 401, assisting in cooling and cleaning it.
  • Alternative bearings such as known bearings with non-circular bores, may also be used to achieve stability.
  • a further means of purging oil through the bearings 401 is to bore the motor shaft 201 for the introduction of oil throughout the length ofthe motor to cross bores 406 at each bearing 401 as shown in Figure 7.
  • grooves in the bearing housings or the stator bore may be provided to assist this return path, as will unfilled interstices between the magnets on the rotor.
  • the bearing running clearances being small, resist and thereby limit the flow of oil from the shaft 201. This is particularly the case for plain bearings. Because spiral groove bearings control their rate of oil intake, it is preferable to arrange a copious supply of fresh oil near the inlet end of the bearing 401, such as by making the cross bores 406 near and at least partially beyond the inlet end of the spirals. Then there is no need to force the oil through the bearings 401.
  • stator bore is of constant, carefully controlled diameter
  • the rotor assembly complete with bearings, may be slid into the stator.
  • the stator thereby provides the outer support for the bearing outer rings 420.
  • this known arrangement necessarily requires the bearing rings to rub the stator bore during insertion, with the possible risk of abrasive damage.
  • stator bore may be made of smaller diameter 403 in the axial sections opposite the bearings, such that the reduced bore lies within the stator to rotor clearance, as indicated by the broken lines 408 in Figure 7.
  • the bearings 401 are shown in contact with these specially reduced sections 403 of bore.
  • Figures 24 to 29 show representative means of the invention for overcoming these problems. More particularly Figure 27 is a cross-section of the stator bore in the vicinity of the bearing restricted bore section 403.
  • the restriction surface 2101 is interrupted by three equiangularly spaced cutaways 2103 that take the bore back to the normal diameter ofthe lamination tips 210.
  • Figure 29 is a cross-section ofthe bearing outer ring incorporating three equiangularly spaced rebates 2105 and intermediate lands 2104 corresponding in position to the cutaways 2103 ofthe restricted bore section 403, the rebated surface 2102 having the same diameter as the restriction surface 2101, and these surfaces 2101, 2102 mating when the rotor is finally installed and the bearings are in the restricted bore section 403, as shown in Figure 24.
  • the outer surfaces 2113 of the bearing outer ring are a sliding fit with the lamination tips 210. At interim positions during installation, as shown in Figure 25, the outer surfaces 2113 provide a good degree of centralisation ofthe shaft 201 between each rotor assembly. This mechanical support ensures the rotor side forces remain acceptably low during rotor insertion, and make it possible to insert the rotor assembly without damage.
  • the external fixture will necessarily constrain the axial movement ofthe rotor to prevent it being pulled into the stator by the magnetic force. It will be apparent to a skilled person that, by suitable shaping of the leading edges of the rebates 2105, the alignment of the rotor bearings to pass through the bore restrictions may be facilitated. However, in a motor with many bearings, this will remain troublesome.
  • the larger rotor-stator gap in a PMSM permits a means of alignment to be used in which each bearing ring is bored so that a stout wire, such as a tempered steel wire, may be threaded through each bearing. Keeping this, or a guide strip in a groove cut in the surface 2103, taut will greatly facilitate the alignment of all the rebated bearings as the rotor is inserted.
  • Figure 4 shows a first step in the known, labour intensive method of manufacturing an electric submersible induction motor stator.
  • the loose laminations 206 are threaded onto a mandrel 303 and inserted into the housing, being prevented from escape by an internal ring 301.
  • the shoulder 304 is then used to compress the lamination stack, which is fastened in place by a second internal ring 302.
  • the housing length extends beyond the laminations considerably further than the illustration shows, in order to leave space for the stator winding end turns and for mechanical components. Winding the stator is laborious as the conductors have to be threaded axially through the slots back and forth, turned around, wrapped in additional end insulation and inspected, all taking place inside the housing ends.
  • the laminations necessarily are a relatively loose fit in the housing in order to be able to slide them in. This leaves a significant thermal contact resistance between the laminations and the housing, which impedes heat transfer, raising the motor internal temperature and hence reducing its reliability.
  • the torque reaction on the stator is transmitted to the housing by way of rings 301 and 302, and, when the motor has warmed up, the stator expands so that it grips the housing along its length. It is a significant mode of failure during start up for the middle section of the stator to twist between the ends portions, thereby damaging the windings, and the arrangements described below are effective in preventing such failure .
  • the preferred embodiments of the present invention radically change the method of assembly of elongated motors. Firstly the more conventional approach to making small non-submersible motors is adopted, in which the stator is wound before insertion into its housing.
  • FIG. 26 and 28 illustrate a means of aligning the laminations ready for winding utilising a rebated mandrel 2107 having outer surfaces 2105 that are a close but sliding fit in the stator bore.
  • the rebates 2106 are clear of the restriction surfaces 2101. This mandrel 2107 provides a centring surface for all the laminations, including those used for the bearings.
  • a simple nut and shoulder on the mandrel 2107 is sufficient to clamp the laminations ready for winding by threading ofthe wire through the slots.
  • the shoulders of the rebates 2106 may be partly tapered to bring the bearing laminations into rotational alignment.
  • the surfaces 2105 are preferably reduced to thin ribs or have ridges that reduce the contact area. If the laminations are open to the stator bore, or if the tips have notches on the internal bore, such features on the mandrel 2107 or inserts mounted thereupon may be used to rotationally align all the laminations.
  • the laminations may be welded together on their outer diameter so as to maintain the close stacking of the laminations, or some other known means may be used.
  • the stator may be ground on the outside diameter to make it a close fit in the housing.
  • the housing will be pre- expanded in order that, after insertion ofthe stator, the housing will relax to a shrink fit. The pressure of contact will then greatly reduce the contact thermal resistance.
  • a means of expanding the housing for assembly is to pre-heat it.
  • to repair a stator, or to recover the housing for re-use it will be necessary to expand the housing with the stator in situ.
  • the length ofthe stator renders the required force to be too high for a press tool to be used.
  • a preferred means is to use an induction heater, which essentially comprises an electrical coil that slides over the housing, the coil being connected to a power generator of appropriate frequency. It is known from the theory of induction heating that, by choosing a frequency such that the skin depth of radiation in the housing does not penetrate through the housing, energy may be rapidly and selectively imparted to it without penetrating the stator. This provides a time window in which the housing will release the stator and the stator may be extracted before it becomes heated by diffusion and expands to re-establish the lock. This method is suited even to elongated motors.
  • a further method with great advantages in terms of manufacturing and repair cost, as well as in terms of reliably preventing the stator from rotating within its housing, is to mechanically lock the stator to the housing with an anti-rotation device or devices.
  • One possibility is to provide an axial key 3603 between the stator and the housing 202, as illustrated in Figure 36.
  • the housing 202 is formed with an axial groove 3601, such as by milling or broaching, and the stator is formed with a corresponding axial groove 3602.
  • the axial key 3603 or series of keys fits in both grooves 3601, 3602 so as to prevent the stator from turning relative to the housing 202.
  • the embodiment disclosed has the further advantage over conventional construction of induction submersible motors that, by providing easy access to the end-windings, the highest quality winding procedure may be followed and the results easily inspected.
  • This technique is applicable to all types of elongated motor.
  • Figure 30 shows an improved reliability and improved performance method of winding a PMSM.
  • the winding is a known short-pitched concentric winding, which is not normally suited to industrial PMSMs or induction motors because the back-emf waveform is far from sinusoidal. It may however be driven by a variable speed drive in which the back-emf waveform is taken into account, and it is particularly suited to the variable speed drive embodiments of the present invention that are disclosed below.
  • the motor has three phases A, B, C.
  • the laminations 2201 have six slots for an eight-pole rotor.
  • phase A coil 2202 is wound through adjacent slots so there is a single tooth 2210 separation between the coil sides.
  • Identical coils 2203 and 2204 are wound on alternate teeth for the other phases B and C, where the hatching emphasises the extent of the completed coils.
  • the slots are shown closed at the stator bore as this is preferable.
  • the end turns 2205 possess further advantages.
  • the end turns 2205 fall naturally within the radial limits ofthe slots and are short. This minimises risks with insulation chafing, provides a short path back to the stator for conduction cooling, and has minimal energy waste in unproductive copper.
  • the end turns need to expand beyond the radial limit of the slots and/or become very long in order to accommodate the wire crossings between layers and phases. Since the winding area is constrained by the housing internal diameter and the bearing/rotor outer diameter, the problem is severe.
  • a winding with six slots and eight poles as described above provides phase separation in the slots.
  • the high pole count makes heavy demands of the variable speed drive as described below.
  • the self-inductance of each winding is high, requiring more drive voltage to overcome its reactance for a given motor current, which is manifest as a poor power factor.
  • a compromise embodiment of six poles and nine slots for a motor having three phases A, B and C, as shown in Figure 31, is satisfactory and preferred.
  • three series-connected coils are provided for each phase, and each slot accommodates the coils of two phases.
  • these coils are wound around separate teeth, they are naturally spaced apart by a gap 3106 as indicated in Figure 31 and can be well insulated from each.other.
  • a preferred improvement to the laminations where two coils are adjacent in the same slot is to introduce partial teeth 3110 shown representatively in Figure 31 A. These teeth have little effect on the motor magnetic circuit as they do not form a closed loop around the coils. However they form an intermediate path for heat transfer to the outside ofthe motor, and, if the motor body is held near the potential ofthe neutral point, there is less strain on the insulation between each of the coils and the tooth 3110 than between the coils of different phases.
  • a further, preferred feature, that may be used where the coils are pre-fabricated and accommodated in a common slot including partial teeth 3110 for separating adjacent coils as shown in Figure 31 A, is the provision of slots that are substantially shaped to conform to the cross-section of the coils in order to provide close thermal contact and mechanical support between the coils and the surrounding laminations.
  • Such an arrangement is shown in Figure 38 in which only one of the coils is shown within the slot, and the coil comprises four coil sections 3801 preformed from rectangular wire, each individual coil section being encapsulated within a respective layer of insulation 3803 and the coil sections being fitted together to form a rectangular bar which is itself encapsulated within an overall layer of insulation 3802.
  • Figure 32 A further, and preferred, aspect of the present invention is shown in Figure 32, which, for convenience in drawing, is again shown based on six-slot laminations.
  • the laminations are made in two parts, as if split in the vicinity ofthe root ofthe slots so that a multi-tooth inner part 2207 and a circular outer part 2208 are obtained, as shown separately on the right hand side ofthe figure and fitted together on the left hand side of the figure.
  • These parts 2207, 2208 are preferably made from the same piece of material and are thus of closely similar thickness. In the final assembly this will reduce bridging of the tooth tips between laminations due to thickness mismatches.
  • the lamination parts 2207 are assembled onto a mandrel, and separately wound and formed coils, preferably vacuum pressure impregnated and over-wound with protective insulation, are then simply slid over the lamination teeth 2209 of the parts 2207.
  • varnish is considered unsuitable in the face of hydrolysis from moisture ingress into the motor.
  • wire insulation such as polyetheretherketone may be used in loose coils, whilst still being wrapped to resist chafing in the electromagnetic fields of the motor.
  • Conveniently stacks of outer laminations 2208 bonded together or welded along their exterior are slid over the wound core to complete the stator. While it is possible to heat-shrink these onto the wound core, the housing shrink fit disclosed above will also apply the light compression necessary to ensure good mechanical stability ofthe stator.
  • the outer lamination stacks may instead be made as magnetically permeable tubes of cast insulated iron powder, with the advantages of offering a smooth surface where the inner and outer parts of the stator come together, and of economy of materials.
  • Each tube may be made by combining smaller arcuate segments, to reduce the size and cost of the casting, such an arcuate construction being unfeasible with laminations which would effectively be small steel fragments.
  • the partial teeth disclosed above may be incorporated into the outer ring of the split lamination.
  • the disclosed multi-part stator must also be multipart or open-slotted outwards at the bearing sections 202 to permit loading of the winding from the outside.
  • This method of assembly translates the known advantages of form-wound coils used in physically large industrial motors to the difficult elongated small diameter geometry of submersible motors.
  • Form-wound coils for lap wound large motors are manufactured separately from the laminations and are then inserted into rectangular slots open to the stator bore. In submersible motors there is insufficient working space in the bore of the laminations to load the formed-coils ready to insert into the slots, and for high speed motors the open slots would cause substantial losses.
  • the invention permits formed coils to be used while not incurring these problems.
  • the particular advantage of the concentrated winding is that the formed coils are very simple and that the large winding slots for the small size of motor facilitates the use of semi-rigid rectangular or wedge- shaped copper wire.
  • the wire With formed coils the wire is bent once at any position as it is wrapped to form the coil, unlike the conventional process for winding elongated motors in which the wire is threaded back and forth through the slots. Consequently a much more rigid wire may be used, as there is no work hardening and insulation damage that would occur if it was attempted to wind conventionally, with repeated bending.
  • Rigidity solves the known problem in elongated motors of wires crossing within a coil deep inside the stator. It provides a non-rubbing and stiff end turn assembly. Round wire is known to give a very poor copper fill factor in a slot compared to rectangular wire, essentially because the latter packs together better. Typically the thermal conductivity from the copper through its insulation back to the lamination is improved also.
  • the motor With a high copper fill the motor will have much reduced internal heating compared to a conventionally round wire wound motor. This is a source of improved reliability, or alternatively of higher torque for the same temperature rise.
  • rectangular wire is preferred, it will be appreciated that formed coils made from round wire will nevertheless be superior to round wire conventionally wound by threading through a stator.
  • the winding pitch is necessarily substantially half the circumference ofthe motor. This means that many end turn crossings are unavoidable.
  • the flexibility of round wires is beneficial in this case, whilst retaining the key advantage disclosed above of prefabricating the coils.
  • stator 15 invention not only allows the stator to be removed from the motor housing, but permits the winding to be disassembled from the stator. Axial movement of the coils can be prevented by inserting insulating blocks between the end turn loops and the stator.
  • a four-turn coil is made first from four U-shaped coil sections 3901 bound together by a 5 layer of insulating material 3902 over at least the straight parts of the coil sections 3901 as shown in Figure 39a, "each such coil section being termed a hairpin coil.
  • the open ends of the U-shaped coil sections 3901 are inserted directly into the laminations and bearing sections from one end without requiring them to be divided into two or more parts. Once this has been done the coil loops may be completed by
  • FIG. 6 illustrates an embodiment in which two or more stator sections are accommodated within a single housing 202, in this case with one stator section per rotor section.
  • the corresponding phase windings 214 of each stator section are comiected in series while integrity of synchronicity of the sections is obtained by rotationally aligning the stator and rotor sections.
  • the rotor sections are easily aligned on the shaft by keys.
  • the end turns will consume a large proportion of the overall motor length and the reliability will diminish in proportion to the extra end turns.
  • the stator sections may be carried and aligned on a common mandrel for insertion in the motor housing 202, similarly to the foregoing descriptions for a single stator.
  • the series connection 405 of the windings 214 of the stator sections is preferably achieved by permanent means such as brazing. The use of connectors, while possible, reduces reliability. It is a feature of the invention that winding before insertion permits these connections to be made and inspected beforehand.
  • High speed multi-pole PMSMs present a variable speed drive problem that the present invention addresses as described below.
  • the origin of the problem is that the base electrical frequency that the drive must generate is the product of the number of motor pole pairs and the number of shaft revolutions per second.
  • a standard induction motor having two poles and turning at 3600 rpm therefore has an electrical frequency of 60Hz.
  • a PMSM in accordance with the invention rotating above 4500 rpm has a much higher frequency.
  • the electrical frequency is 360 Hz. This six-fold increase is a step change in operating conditions for electric submersible pumping, systems and well beyond the range of general industrial drives.
  • FIG 10 shows a known electrical representation of a balanced PMSM with three phases a, b, c and isolated neutral.
  • reference numeral 701 is a motor terminal to which the voltage V a is applied.
  • Current I a indicated by the reference numeral 702 flows into the motor winding which has resistance R indicated at 703 and an effective inductance L indicated at 704.
  • EMF electromotive force
  • the other phases b and c may be described in the same way with appropriate substitution of indices.
  • the three phases are joined together at the neutral point N indicated by the reference numeral 706.
  • multiple motors may be connected electrically in series so that the resistances, inductances and EMFs add to make a single equivalent larger motor with a common shaft. Placing the terminals in parallel is also possible but poses difficulties in controlling currents between all the windings. More realistic motor models in which for example the EMF source and inductance are lumped together as an element that calculates the time rate of change ofthe internal flux linkage, and in which magnetic saturation is taken into account, are all refinements which do not affect the present invention. The number of phases, three, is well suited to the task of electric submersible pumping motors, but is not limiting.
  • FIG. 10 An idealised PMSM as described with reference to Figure 10 produces sinusoidal EMF, with each phase 120 degrees apart, and is driven by a three-phase sinusoidal voltage source.
  • Figure 11 shows graphically how a sinusoidal voltage V, 802, applied to the motor with suitable amplitude and in the presence of the motor EMF E, 801, will result in a phase current I, 803.
  • the source may also be current-controlled in which case V is the consequence of I and E.
  • the sinusoidal nature of the electrical quantities is ideally suited to the task of electric submersible pumping. This is because the smoothly varying waveforms do not cause damaging transients at the motor terminals, and because the motor torque can be shown to be constant with rotation, which reduces the likelihood of torsional vibration.
  • the back EMF will be more similar in form to E in Figure 13. This is often referred to as a trapezoidal EMF. If the motor is driven with sinusoidal voltage or current the performance will not be as good as the ideal sinusoidal PMSM made with the same amount of copper in the windings.
  • Figure 14 shows how a motor with trapezoidal EMF is driven, compared to the sinusoidal motor waveforms of Figure 11.
  • the key feature is that voltage is applied to the motor across two phases only at a time whereas in a sinusoidally driven motor voltage is applied to three phases at a time.
  • the two-phase driven trapezoidal wound permanent magnet motor is commonly termed a brushless DC motor.
  • the two phases are changed cyclically, as in AB, BC, CA, AB... Whenever the phase pair is changed, one phase is electrically disconnected. Since there will be current in the phase winding, the terminal voltage exhibits a voltage flyback spike 1002, known as a commutation spike. These spikes occur twice per electrical cycle, on each phase.
  • the electric submersible pumping system of the present invention drives all three motor phases continuously such that damaging transients will not arise, without requiring the motor emf to be sinusoidal. It is convenient nevertheless to explain the principles in terms of sinusoidal waveforms, as the fundamental frequency component of the drive and motor electrical quantities predominate in a detailed analysis.
  • Figure IA shows a block diagram of a drive circuit 111 comprising an adjustable voltage converter 113 and an inverter 114 for supplying drive currents at output terminals 901 at the surface for supplying the three phases A, B and C ofthe motor via the power cable extending down the borehole.
  • the inverter 114 is supplied with an upper voltage at 904 and a lower voltage at 905, the difference between the upper and lower voltages being commonly termed the link voltage.
  • Figure 12 shows a schematic circuit diagram for the inverter 114 which is well known.
  • this terminal may be sensibly connected to either the upper voltage 904 or the lower voltage 905.
  • This arrangement is termed a two-level inverter. It will be appreciated by one versed in the art of inverter design that multi-level inverters may be made in which the terminals may be switched to voltage levels intermediate between the upper voltage and the lower voltage, such multi-level inverters being usable in alternative embodiments in accordance with the present invention.
  • a filter is connected between the switch terminals AA, BB and CC and the drive terminals A, B, C at 901, representatively comprising inductors 907 and capacitors 908.
  • the purpose ofthe filter is to smooth out the rapid switching transitions, and thereby present a smooth voltage to terminals A, B , C.
  • other filters for example for the removal of radio interference, may be added.
  • the filter is not present and the motor is connected directly to the terminals AA, BB and CC. Only two phases are active, that is only one switch is turned on, at a time, whilst the switches for the third phase both remain turned off as described above.
  • PWM pulse- width modulation
  • space vector, switching table switching modulation scheme
  • Figure 15 shows one phase ofthe output of a PWM drive according to which the upper and lower switches of a phase leg are alternated with a variable mark-space ratio.
  • the voltage curve shows the switching at terminal AA, whereas the superimposed phase current curve is seen be sinusoidal with only a little ripple.
  • Fourier analysis of the voltage would show it to have a predominant fundamental component at the phase frequency.
  • Filter 907, 908 filters the voltage output of the drive circuit so that only the fundamental smooth voltage is passed to the power cable and thence to the downhole motor. This is therefore a suitable transient-free approach, in principle, for the PMSM submersible pump application
  • variable speed drive circuits operate at typical utility supply voltages of 380 V AC - 690 V AC, since the power semiconductors that they use for switches are well proven and efficient. However, just as in utility. power transmission, for efficient motor operation using long power cables, it is necessary to use Medium Voltages, commonly in the range 1000 V AC - 4000 V AC. Such voltages reduce the motor current and hence the ohmic losses in the cable.
  • the majority of variable speed drive circuits for use with submersible pumps are therefore installed with a step-up transformer on the output. These transformers are a source of additional power loss, direct cost, and are often large and oil-filled, requiring special environmental precautions and substantial space.
  • a wide speed range requires expensive core material for high speed but also a very large core to prevent magnetic saturation if operation at low speed is also required. They are in addition to input transformers, commonly required as described below to reduce harmonic distortion ofthe supply and to match to the available supply voltage.
  • a Medium Voltage drive circuit operates from a supply voltage directly at the voltage which is required for the motors. It therefore eliminates the undesirable output step-up transformer but has certain limitations for the purpose of high speed pumping.
  • Figure 16 shows the effect of reducing this to ten switching cycles per fundamental motor frequency cycle.
  • the waveform is already of poor quality and difficult to filter.
  • the switching speed becomes too high to be economic with Medium Voltage semiconductors.
  • a high speed motor with six poles operating at 7200 rpm has a fundamental frequency of 360 Hz, so that the drive should operate with a switching frequency of at least 3600 Hz just to achieve the quality of the response of Figure 16, and preferably at least twice that.
  • the normal range for Medium Voltage power semiconductors is 500 - 1000 Hz.
  • the present invention overcomes these problems by deliberately over-modulating (non- linearly modulating) the output stage of Figure 12 in conjunction with a variable voltage source such as shown in Figure 19.
  • a variable voltage source such as shown in Figure 19.
  • the PWM waveform in Figure 15 may be used to produce a good sinusoidal waveform until the peak value exceeds 4/ ⁇ times the internal drive voltage. If the depth of modulation is increased beyond this the PWM output will become distorted, that is the modulation will become non-linear, as shown in Figure 17.
  • This non-linearity is characteristic of any modulation scheme used for driving a motor in accordance with the present invention where the output voltage is unable to follow the peak of the sine wave or other waveshape that is demanded, in simple proportion.
  • a particular case of over-modulation is to consider the peak voltage as fixed to the upper and lower levels of the internal drive voltage for substantial parts of each cycle, with pulse width or other modulation used to progressively vary the output between the upper and lower levels of the internal drive voltage for the remaining parts of the cycle. It is also possible, within the scope of the invention, to generate the waveform within the linear range of modulation, particularly at lower power levels.
  • the distorted switching waveform shown in Figure 17 has several features. There are far fewer switching cycles than at lower modulation, and these are at the lowest-current intervals of the fundamental cycle. Switching losses will therefore be much reduced even if the switching frequency is kept high to facilitate filtering.
  • the filtered output voltage obtained, for example, by filtering the single phase in isolation, is quite similar to trapezoidal, and is transient free as required. When the filter is as shown in Figure 12, it becomes a three-phase filter and the phase-phase voltage applied to the motor will be found to be even more smooth.
  • the output is usable for sinusoidal motors, with some unwanted harmonics, and is well adapted to the non-sinusoidal windings of the preferred motors of the present invention.
  • FIG. 21 shows the benefits of over-modulation more clearly.
  • Horizontal axis 1702 is modulation depth normalised to 4/ ⁇
  • vertical axis 1701 is the heat loss of a typical switch.
  • Curve 1703 shows the switch conduction loss, which is typically low for a submersible motor running at 100A.
  • Curve 1704 shows the switching loss. It is high for normal modulation levels, but reduces rapidly by a factor of three as over- modulation is increased. This represents a dramatic improvement and makes Medium Voltage drives ofthe present invention suited to high speed motors.
  • the present invention seeks to make use of the special characteristics of the pumps it is powering, in order to further improve drive performance.
  • the power output at half speed is only 12.5% or so ofthe full speed power, and therefore of little interest in the well for which the motor and pump are specified.
  • the power will be proportional to speed and more than half power is normally required. Therefore a properly specified drive can be assumed to be run most of the time above half speed.
  • a first embodiment of adjustable voltage converter 113 particular to the present invention incorporates a specially adapted variable voltage chopper source shown in Figure 19 to provides an efficient means of regulating the internal drive voltage, and hence the motor speed, over the power range of interest.
  • a first fixed supply voltage source 1401 is connected in series with a second fixed supply voltage source 1402, and a chopper, comprising a switch 1403, a diode 1404, an inductor 1405 and a capacitor 1406, is connected across the source 1402.
  • a chopper comprising a switch 1403, a diode 1404, an inductor 1405 and a capacitor 1406, is connected across the source 1402.
  • the switching losses of a chopper are proportional to switching frequency, input voltage and output current.
  • the advantages ofthe arrangement shown are that the input voltage is only half that of the full supply, and that the frequency of chopping may be set independently ofthe motor speed since it is used to produce the link voltage and not the modulated drive output to the motor.
  • the chopper might be operated at 500 Hz to limit switch losses, whereas the output stage in Figure 12 may be switching, except when saturated, at 3600 Hz or more to produce a fundamental frequency of 360 Hz. If the conventional modulated PWM approach with a fixed internal supply were used, the output might have to be limited to 500 Hz, that is there would not even be one pulse per half cycle, resulting in an ineffective drive.
  • a further feature to optimise the drive, based on the characteristics of the electric submersible pump, is to vary the chopper frequency.
  • Inductor 1405 is heavy, costly and has losses proportional to ripple current and average output current. As such it is an undesirable addition by comparison with conventional drives.
  • the inductance value is usually chosen to limit the chopper ripple current to a reasonable level.
  • the ripple current is at a maximum when the chopper output is half its input voltage (50% duty cycle).
  • the output power will be significantly reduced. Therefore at this condition the chopper frequency can be relatively high, permitting a lower inductance value.
  • the ripple reduces as the output voltage increases (higher duty cycle) but increases as the frequency is reduced, it can be seen that a compromise profile of frequency versus power output can be found which allows a much smaller value of inductance than would otherwise be the case, reducing the adverse factors of weight, cost and power loss. It is quite reasonable to reduce the value by a factor of two, or four if the chopper is connected across the full supply and not a portion of it.
  • variation of the internal frequency of the adjustable voltage converter with output serves to improve efficiency and/or reduce the size of components.
  • Figure 20 shows a suitable circuit for the fixed voltage sources 1401 and 1402.
  • the utility supply is first transformed by a transformer 1501 having two secondary windings 1502, the ouiput of each of which is fed to a three-phase rectifier and smoothing capacitor.
  • the resulting DC supplies are connected in series.
  • the variable speed range of the supply may be adapted to particular requirements.
  • a particularly beneficial choice is when one secondary winding is wye-connected and the other secondary winding is delta-connected, and the turns ratios are adjusted such that the rectified outputs are equal.
  • the current pulses taken from the supply from one capacitor are displaced in time with respect to the current pulses taken from the other capacitor.
  • This known arrangement is beneficial to the supply as the current pulses taken from the supply by the assembly occur twelve times per supply cycle and not six as when using a single rectifier. This substantially reduces the harmonic distortion imposed by the drive circuit on the utility supply.
  • a further embodiment of adjustable voltage converter 113 in accordance with the present invention incorporates a three-phase boost converter as shown in Figure 35.
  • This arrangement uses a two-level inverter as in Figure 9, but operated so as to absorb power from the input terminals 3501, U, V, W which in this case are connected to the utility supply or a generator, and produce a voltage output between the terminals 905 and 904.
  • This circuit arrangement and variations thereof can use a greater or lesser number of switches.
  • a means is required to directly measure the instantaneous angular position of the rotor using a shaft sensor, such as a resolver or encoder, and to use the result to control the phase of the voltage or current output of the variable speed drive circuit.
  • a shaft sensor such as a resolver or encoder
  • the additional cabling or other means needed to transmit the position information from deep in the borehole to the variable speed drive circuit at the surface makes a sensorless technique almost certain to be required.
  • cable and motor parameters are subject to change with operating temperature and age.
  • a general purpose drive is designed to cover a wide range of loads and dynamically varying conditions, as in a servo, and cannot assume particular properties of the load.
  • the characteristic of the load that is required for the feature of the invention now to be disclosed is that its power be steady for a steady speed. By averaging over a sufficiently long period random or short term load fluctuations can be accommodated. A submersible centrifugal pump, or a turbine, meets this condition.
  • the optimum control condition will be when the drive output power, which is measurable, is minimised. For example if a pump is turning at a fixed speed and takes 300kW from the drive at one control condition, and 298kW at another, then the second condition is more efficient as there is less power supplied, regardless of what the motor and cable parameters are thought to be and regardless of what the actual pump power is, since it has not changed.
  • Figure 22 shows the phasor diagram for the PMSM schematic shown in Figure 10 and corresponding to the waveforms shown in Figure 11.
  • This diagram which is known to those skilled in the art, refers to one phase of an ideal balanced motor with isolated neutral.
  • the motor EMF amplitude E denoted by the reference numeral 1801
  • the phase current I lags behind this by an angle ⁇ .
  • the voltage drop due to the winding resistance 1802 and the voltage across the internal inductance 1804 sum as vectors to equal the driving voltage V denoted by the reference numeral 1805.
  • the motor power output ignoring internal mechanical and iron losses, is given by:
  • the EMF E depends to a good approximation only on the motor speed, so that, for fixed speed operation and since the output power is fixed by the load, the quantity I cos( ⁇ ) will be constant.
  • the broken line 1806 shows the locus of constant output power. It is evident that minimum current, and hence least loss in the resistance of the copper winding, ⁇ I 2 R, occurs when ⁇ is zero.
  • a given three-phase voltage or current is applied at a given frequency.
  • the motor operates in accordance with the phasor diagram at an angle ⁇ , satisfying the relationships between the parameters. Operation is at some non-zero ⁇ , and as a result the motor is never optimally efficient. If ⁇ increases beyond approximately ⁇ 45 degrees, the motor operation becomes unreliable since fluctuations in the load may increase the angle to the point where there is insufficient current available from the drive circuit to maintain the output power. At this point the motor will lose synchronism and stall. If the conditions are as shown in Figure 22, then increasing the motor voltage will force ⁇ to reduce and hence reduce the current and ohmic losses.
  • Figure 23 shows this in terms ofthe input power 1902 of a representative motor plotted against terminal voltage 1901, normalised to the most efficient point of operation.
  • the curve 1903 represents the average (real) input power and is the sum of the fixed motor output power and the copper losses.
  • the curve 1904 represents the volt-ampere power, which includes a power factor. It can be seen that, by varying the input voltage, a point may be found which minimises whichever power quantity is desired. Increasing the normalised input voltage from below unity changes ⁇ from positive through zero to negative.
  • the optimum operating point ofthe system at a given speed may be found by varying the input voltage independently of particular knowledge of the motor or cable parameters or actual load power. Since the motor output power demanded by the pump for constant pump speed and fluid type is constant, the control observable is the input power measurable at the surface. Parameters corresponding to the age or nature of the motor and/or cable are not required.
  • the above method is applicable to PMSMs without the simplified assumptions of Figure 10, since the goal is simply least drive power for a fixed output power. It is preferably implemented as a long time average correction to an established closed-loop control, or as a slow adjustment for open-loop control, ensuring that load fluctuations do not cause false corrections. It will be evident to those skilled in the art of control theory that it is possible to merge the input power minimisation into an inner control loop, by weighting its importance to other error terms or using it as a constraint. In this way the control loop keeps primary control over the range of ⁇ that is permitted, while accepting a safe level of correction from the power-optimised control of the present invention.
  • Figure 33 shows a variant installation according to which a single submerged motor 108 is connected to two electric power cables 110 and 110', each connected at the surface to a corresponding motor drive 111 or 111'.
  • Figure 34 diagrammatically shows the construction of the motor in the installation of Figure 33 in which two sets of motor windings are provided, namely a first winding set 3001 connected to the cable 110 and a second winding set 3001' connected to the cable 110'.
  • the motor is wound as a six- phase motor, divided into two sets 3001 and 3001' of three phases, each with its own neutral connection.
  • the motor may either be driven as a six-phase motor to its full power capability, or alternatively as a three-phase motor using either set of windings at reduced power.
  • the advantage of such an arrangement is that failure o the cable 110 or its splices or connections, or of the drive circuit 111 or of any of the coils of the winding set 3001 will not affect any ofthe corresponding parts associated with the winding set 3001'.
  • the windings of the phase sets may more easily be kept well insulated from one another than with lap windings.
  • one coil per phase is wound over alternate teeth in twelve slots, the corresponding phases of each set being adjacent to one another. In this way the six motor leads exit the motor directly from their coils without crossing.
  • a six-phase drive output circuit may be constructed by adding three extra pairs of switches to Figure 9.
  • the phases operate at a 60-degree separation, rather than 120 degrees.
  • such a drive sold as a unit is complex and is substantially only useful for a fault tolerant application.
  • the preferred embodiment uses two adapted three-phase drive circuits 111 and 111', with the adaptation being made by means of suitable signal and power connections 3002 between the drive circuits. The signal connections must ensure that the corresponding output phases of the drive circuits are
  • One drive circuit makes the rotor angle calculation to produce the master phase signal used by both drive circuits.
  • the amplitude of the drive output voltage must be the same on each phase.
  • the terminals 904 and 905 of the drive circuits may be connected together so that their voltages are the same.
  • One of many known power supply sharing methods may be used to equalise the power supplied by each chopper circuit.
  • two motors are connected mechanically in series on a common shaft, but powered by separate cables and drives as before.
  • the two motors may be operated individually or simultaneously. In the latter case the drive circuits must again be arranged to cooperate.
  • This method is not applicable in the majority of wells as usually the motor diameter is the largest that can be fitted within the casing 103, and the motor cable 110 is fed past the pump and into the top of the motor 108 immediately below it. In such cases it is not possible to pass a second cable past this first motor to a further motor arranged at a deeper level.
  • the foregoing has assumed two duplicate motor sections that are identical, as that is the simplest fault tolerant arrangement. However, with suitable changes to the control and drive levels, a plurality of motor sections cables and drives of different characteristics may be used within the scope of the invention, so long as they are controlled to the same shaft speed.
  • the electric submersible pump system of the present invention has broad application, particularly in the field of downhole wellbore operations. Drilling for wellbore fluid at large depths is typically restricted to relatively narrow boreholes, so the facility of the present invention to provide the same motor power in a smaller overall package is immediately advantageous.
  • a further application of the present invention is to compress wellbore fluid in situ. It may sometimes not be required to immediately transport the wellbore fluid to the surface from its underground reservoir, but to compress it either for later recovery or merely to facilitate further exploration. Alternatively it may be required to transport the wellbore fluid from a first subterranean location to a second subterranean location, for the above reasons amongst others.
  • a recent development in mining operations is the application of multi-lateral wellbore systems in which a number of small diameter wellbores are drilled substantially horizontally from a central subterranean sump.
  • pumping systems have significant difficulties in pumping from lateral wellbores, whereas the pump of the present invention can still maintain a high output in such environments.
  • wellbore fluid is transported from the multiple lateral wellbores to the central sump, where it may be recovered to the surface or compressed as described above.
  • an objective of the present invention is to provide a highspeed electric submersible pump, capable of operating at speeds above the current maximum of approximately 4,000 rpm.
  • the standard operating speed of embodiments ofthe invention intended for the above applications is above 4,500 rpm, and an optimal speed, providing a marked improvement over current systems, is approximately 7,200 rpm.
  • the present invention discloses a permanent magnet synchronous motor submersible pumping system. It will be appreciated by the person skilled in the art that various modifications may be made to the above embodiments without departing from the scope ofthe invention.

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La présente invention concerne un moteur électrique de fond de puits destiné à une pompe submersible qui possède au moins trois phases et comprend un rotor à aimant permanent et un stator portant des enroulements de phases (A, B, C) dans des encoches (2206) ménagées dans le stator. Chaque enroulement de phase (A, B, C) incorpore une bobine s'étendant à travers une paire respective d'encoches de stator contiguës (2206) de sorte que ces bobines s'étendent les unes le long des autres dans cette encoche, qu'elles soient séparées par un espace à travers lequel un fluide de refroidissement peut-être pompé pour refroidir cette bobine, ou qu'elles soient séparées par une projection thermiquement conductrice (3110) avec laquelle les bobines sont en contact thermique, s'étendant au moins en partie sur le passage à travers l'encoche. Un tel agencements d'enroulements permet de faire en sorte que ce moteur est une longue durée de vie.
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