Experimental Investigation On Reducing Energy Cost By Improving Shaft Motor Coupling Alignment

Ruslan, Nur Ain Aqila (2019) Experimental Investigation On Reducing Energy Cost By Improving Shaft Motor Coupling Alignment. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Misalignment of shaft is the most common fault happens on rotating machinery. Several studies have shown that misalignment of shaft motor coupling has introduced up to 15 percent extra energy consumption by motor to rotate the shaft. In addition, misaligned rotating machinery has increased the cost due to repair and replacement to a new machinery and also on the manpower involvement. In this study, an analysis of energy losses caused by misalignment of shaft motor coupling will be carried out, with the main objective of finding correlation between energy consumptions with different degrees of misalignment of shaft by experimental investigation. A Machine Fault Simulator, MFS was be utilized to carry out the experimental investigation under different degrees of misalignment. The additional tools, ammeter clamp, and multimeter will be included in this study and will be used to analyse the results. This study also includes on the remedial for the misalignment of shaft, either by using straightedge or dial indicator or laser indicator in order to achieve the objective of reducing cost initiative proposal due to early damages to the machinery causes by misalignment of shaft motor coupling the industry. To simplify, this study at the end, embarks the result of how degree of misalignment affects the energy consumed by motor to rotate the shaft. This shows how a preventive and predictive maintenance is beneficial with the objective of reducing energy consumption by initiatively proposing initiative in improving the misalignment of shaft motor coupling to reduce the cost in industry.

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