Commissioning experience with a modern digital excitation system

Author

Godhwani, A. ; Basler, M.J. ; Kim, K. ; Eberly, T.W.

Author_Institution

Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville, IL, USA

Volume

13

Issue

2

fYear

1998

fDate

6/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

183

Lastpage

187

Abstract

This paper presents design, testing, commissioning, and operational experience related to a modern digital excitation system. In order to allow comparison with a modern analog system, an analog voltage regulator was also installed and subjected to similar testing. The paper compares the digital and analog regulators in terms of efficiency of commissioning and the resulting system performance. The digital regulator allows ease of custom design of the regulator settings to match the exciter and the generator, resulting in efficient commissioning

Keywords

commissioning; diesel-electric generators; digital control; exciters; machine control; testing; voltage regulators; analog voltage regulator; commissioning; design; diesel generating units; digital excitation system; digital regulators; embedded microprocessors; exciter; generator; operational experience; system performance; testing; Aging; Cities and towns; Control systems; Power generation; Power system control; Power system modeling; Reactive power; Regulators; System testing; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8969

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/60.678983

Filename

678983