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Generator Fundamentals

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Objectives

Upon completion of this module the student will be able to:

1) Describe how generator voltage is created

2) Predict the generator reactive power change

given operation and system changes

3) Given generator operating conditions determine if

the generator is operating in within design limits

4) Recall the purpose of the following exciter protection:

a) UEL, Under Excitation Limiter
b) OEL, Over Excitation Limiter
c) V/Hz, Volts per hertz limiter
5) Describe how an on line generator can lose synchronism
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Permanent Magnets

MAGNET
IRON

Magnetic Lines of Flux will always form

__________________ ?

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Electromagnet

MMF = _________ x _____________

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Collector Ring Connections

How many brushes on your machine?

How often should the brushes be checked?

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Rotor Flux

ROTOR w/Field Windings

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Generator Rotor

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Rotor is a one piece forging with longitudinal slots

cut into the field body to hold the field coils

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Rotor Windings

What are the holes in the rotor windings for? ____________________

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Rotor Winding, cool gas in, warm gas out

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The wedges that hold the rotor windings

in place have holes to allow let gas in
and out

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Conducting Components

Collector End Cross Section

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Fields

Example of Collector / Brush Field Rotor

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Fields

Example of Brushless Field Rotor

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What could go wrong?

What is it?
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Tried starting at turning gear speed, no field,

closed the generator breaker
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For Sale…….Cheap
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Generator Off Line Flux

Flux Pattern inside the generator

when the unit is:

Where are the rotor poles?

Where is the centerline of the flux?

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Stator Laminations

STATOR CORE FRAME Note Key bars STATOR CORE LAMINATION

ASSEMBLING STATOR CORE ALINGMENT OF STATOR WINDING SLOTS

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Stator Windings

• The stator bars are composed of insulated copper

conductors (strands) transposed by the “Roebel”
method.
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Stator Windings

• The stator windings are composed of insulated bars assembled in

the stator slots,.

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What are RTD’s used for?

Where would you find out the highest safe operating temperature of the Stator Windings?

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View A-A
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Where are the poles of the rotor?
At this instant in time what is the induced voltage in the one Stator winding?
Induced Voltage is Proportional to:

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AC Waveform

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Requirements to Synchronize

List the three requirements to Synchronize:

1) ____________________________________

2) ____________________________________

3) ____________________________________

With the GE Control System Synchronizing will only occur if:

1) ____________________________________

2) ____________________________________

What is the proper method to take the generator off line?

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Three Phase Rotation

1 2

Which is Green 1 or 2?

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On – Line Generator flux

Flux Pattern inside the generator

when the unit is:

Where are the rotor poles?

Where is the centerline of the flux?

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Power System Stabilizer

OFF LINE ON LINE
FLUX

Poles

Note: There is an error, the drawings should have the same number of lines of flux

When the unit is On-Line how can the flux angle be changed?

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