INDUCTION REGULATOR

SPECIAL ELECTRICAL MACHINE

 INTRODUCTION
• The induction voltage regulator is a type of an
electrical machine in which the output voltage
may be varied from zero to a certain maximum
value depending upon the ratio of turns in the
primary and secondary windings.
• The primary winding is connected to the
circuit which is to be regulated, and secondary
is connected in series with the circuit.
TYPES OF INDUCTION VOLTAGE REGULATORS
The induction voltage regulator is mainly
classified into two types..
• Single phase induction voltage regulator
• Three phase induction voltage regulator.
SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF A SINGLE-PHASE
INDUCTION REGULATOR
 INTRODUCTION
• The primary winding is connected across the
single phase supply, and the secondary is
connected in series with the outgoing lines.
• The alternating flux is induced in the system
and when the axis of the two windings
coincide the whole of the flux of primary is
linked with the secondary windings and the
maximum voltage is induced in the secondary.
 CONSTRUCTION
• The single-phase voltage regulator does not
cause any phase shift.
• The primary windings are placed in slots in the
surface core of the laminated cylindrical core
since it has to carry small currents and has small
conductor area.
• The rotor of the regulator consists compensating
windings also called the territory windings.
 CONSTRUCTION
• The magnetic axis of the compensating
windings is always 90º away from that of the
primary windings, to neutralize the harmful
series reactance effect of the secondary.
• The secondary windings connected in series
with the outgoing line are housed in the stator
slots, due to its large conductor area.
 WORKING
• When the rotor is rotated through 90º, then
none of the primary flux is linked with the
secondary windings and hence no flux is linked
with the secondary windings.
• If the rotor further rotates, then the direction of
the induced emf becomes negative. Thus the
regulator adds or subtracts the circuit voltage
depends on the relative position of the two
windings of regulators.
SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM OF THREE PHASE
INDUCTION VOLTAGE REGULATOR
 CONSTRUCTION

• The three phase induction motors have three

primary and three secondary windings and
which must be spaced 120º apart.
• The primary windings are placed in the slot of a
laminated rotor core and connected across the
three phase AC supply.
• The secondary windings are in slots of a
laminated stator core and are connected in series
with the load.
 WORKING
• The regulator does not require any primary and
compensating windings because the each secondary
winding of the regulator is magnetically coupled to
one or more primary winding of the regulator.
• In this regulator, the rotating magnetic field of
constant magnitude is produced due to which the
voltage induced in the secondary is of constant
magnitude.
• The phases of the regulator vary with the change in
the position of the rotor on the stator.
• The phasor diagram of the induction regulator
is shown in the figure above.
• Where V1 is the supply voltage, Vr is the
induces voltage in the secondary and V 2 is the
output voltage per phase.
• The output voltage is obtained as the phasor
sum of supply voltage and the induced voltage
for any rotor displacement angle θ.
• The locus of the circle is consequently a circle
drawn with a centre on the edge of supply
voltage and of radius Vr.
• The maximum output voltage is obtained
when the induced voltage is in phase with the
supply voltage, and the minimum output
voltage is obtained when the induced voltage
is in phase opposition with the supply voltage.
 Application
• The induction regulator was an early device
used to control the voltage of electric
networks. Since the 1930s it has been replaced
in distribution network applications by the tap
transformer.
• Its usage is now mostly confined to electrical
laboratories, electrochemical processes and arc
welding.
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