Condition Monitoring of Rotating Electrical Machines

Condition monitoring of electric machines is becoming increasingly important with the rise in deployment of electric machines into critical industrial applications such as electric vehicles, aerospace systems, medical equipment and similar, where a failure could be catastrophic. Therefore, the utilization of condition monitoring systems to monitor and track the health of an electric machine in operation is of vital importance. This talk will provide an explanation of the main types of faults encountered in electric machines and a general description of the different types of condition monitoring techniques presently utilized to monitor electric machines in service.

Dr Nur Sarma is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at Durham University. Her expertise and research focus on investigating conventional and advanced fault detection and condition monitoring methods for electric machines and drives; investigation of advanced sensing technologies for condition monitoring applications; modelling and analysis of electric machines and drives; reliability analysis of wind turbines; and analysis of electrical systems and power conversion technologies for renewable power generation applications including wind, solar and wave. She was awarded the Denis Hadfield Award from the UK Magnetics Society in 2015, a Best Paper Prize at IEEE International Conference on Renewable Energy Research and Applications (ICRERA 2016), and a Best Paper Presentation Prize at IEEE International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEEE 2018).

She has been strongly supporting women in STEM with strong motivation to foster equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the engineering research and innovation landscape. She is the lead for the Women in Engineering Society (WES) group at Durham University, Durham University representative of NEW-ECO (North East Women in Engineering and Computing Network), an international voluntary mentor for the RAEng-funded project on Mentoring future women graduates in STEM in Africa, and Durham University representative in The Women's Engineering Society (WES) created Education Cluster.

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