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AC generator - Diesel driven 8 pole rotor
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Two pole rotor
machining
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Rotor slot
wedges and
damper bars
Damper bar
& end-bell
connections
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DC windings in a
2pole rotor slot
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Two pole
stator
assembly
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Multi-pole stator due!!
assembly
Laminated
stator core
- showing
eddy current
damage
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Red
Neutral
CB
White
Current
Blue
transformers R W B
VT fuses AC system
Voltage
transformer Next slide
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Exciter options
•DC exciter
•AC exciter
•Brushless exciters
•External excitation supply
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•Stand-by exciter due!!
additional requirements
•Automatic voltage regulator (AVR)
Note:
neutral
resistor Next slide
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Typical AC generator
connections
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Phase isolated buswork- instead of HV cables
Internal supports - phase isolated bus work
•Air cooled
•Hydrogen cooled
- less windage, higher thermal capacity
- fire/explosion risk
- additional facilities for safe operation
(eg carbon dioxide for purging)
•Water cooled stator windings
- pure water required, condition monitored
- leakage detection
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H2 shaft
sealing
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AC generator metering due!!
Rotor
•DC current
•DC voltage
•Rotor insulation – alarm and trip
(if earth fault detection fitted)
•Pilot Exciter voltage & current (rare)
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AC generator metering
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•Stator
•AC current
•AC voltage
•AC watts
•AC Vars
•Power factor meter (where fitted)
•Synchronising instruments
(more details in Synchronising module)
•AC generator capability diagram (where fitted)
•Incoming power alarm and/or trip
(also termed ‘Reverse Power’)
Main or Auxiliary AC generator Next slide
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Transformers - metering
•AC Primary/secondary current
•AC primary/secondary voltage
•AC watts
•AC Vars
•Winding tap positions (on load tap changing
transformers)
Temperatures/Cooling metering Next slide
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•Stator embedded temperature detectors (ETD)
•Exciter ETD / exhaust cooling air temperature
•Exciter Fire detection / CO2 flooding equipment (on H2
filled AC generators)
•Stator cooled air/gas -Gas in/out temperatures
•Air/Gas cooler temperatures – Cooling water in/out
•Seal oil system – face temperatures- seal oil pressures
•H2 Gas system – purity- pressure
•Stator water system – in/out pressures and
temperatures- water conductivity
•Stator casing leak detectors (on bottom of stator
casing)
•Main/Auxiliary transformer – oil, winding, cooler
temperatures
Automatic Voltage Regulator Next slide
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•Over temperature
•Over Voltage
•Polluted
•Winding movement
•Physical damage
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Insulation Testing & monitoring due!!
On line monitoring
•Dew point monitoring
•End winding vibration detectors
•Radio frequency pick-up of corona discharge
•Rotor vibration
•Rotor earth fault detection
•Bearing pedestal insulation & shaft voltage
measurement
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