A study based on DC chopper excitation system

A new self-shunt excitation control method has been brought in this paper, which is about how to use DC chopper that is composed with full controlled switch device IGBT to regulate exciting voltage. This new method replaces traditional method which is adopted controlled rectifier by thyristor. Exciting voltage refers from terminal voltage by exciting transformer, and then it goes through uncontrollable rectifier circuit and switches to DC voltage. This DC voltage is used for DC chopper. We can control duty cycle of IGBT to change output voltage and hold terminal voltage steady. In this paper, the conclusion of DC chopper output current proportioned with duty cycle is proved by simulation in PSCAD. And it also proves that it can maintain terminal voltage stability in steady state operation by the control of trigger angle of IGBT.