Comparison of losses and heating in generator rotors following severe supply system disturbances

Losses and heating in rotors of large synchronous generators are examined following sustained stator-terminal and HV busbar line-to-line short-circuits at full load and no load, three-phase (L-L-L) short-circuits on a weak line connected to the HV generator transformer busbar with clearance at fault current zeros where the generator either remains in synchronism or falls from synchronism, and worst-case malsynchronization. Comparisons are made with negative sequence losses in solid generator rotors following these disturbances. The analysis uses a phase-variable model of a synchronous generator with detailed and reduced damper representations to compute stator and rotor current following a severe electrical disturbance at either the machine terminals or the HV unit transformer busbar. Simulations at full load and no load for a variety of assumptions and approximations, with connection of a field discharge resistor on tripping the main generator breaker, are performed