Electricity: single generator systems – Automatic control of generator or driving means – Electrical conditions in circuit other than that of...
Patent
1994-11-15
1996-04-16
Stephan, Steven L.
Electricity: single generator systems
Automatic control of generator or driving means
Electrical conditions in circuit other than that of...
322 59, 322 69, 361 20, H02P 900
Patent
active
055086012
ABSTRACT:
A shorted rectififing diode protection system for a synchronous generator having a stationary exciter field which induces a voltage in a rotating exciter armature when energized by an exciter drive current, the voltage being rectified by a plurality of rotating rectifiers and applied to a rotating field winding to induce an output voltage in a plurality of main stator output phase windings, the output voltage being controlled by a voltage regulator having peak excitation current protection means, comprises a circuit for detecting actuation of the excitation current protection and generating a field protection monitor signal, a circuit for discriminating a shorted exciter field and generating a protection lock-out signal, and a logic circuit responsive to the field protection monitor signal and the protection lock-out signal for generating a shorted rectifying diode protection signal. Upon generation of the protection signal, the system disables the voltage regulator to preclude collateral damage to the generator. The method of detecting a shorted exciter field rectifying diode comprises the steps of a) monitoring the peak current supplied to the exciter field from the voltage regulator, b) generating a field protection monitor signal when the peak current exceeds a given threshold, c) generating a protection lock-out signal if the exciter field is discriminated as shorted, d) de-energizing the generator in response to the field protection monitor signal, and e) inhibiting the step of de-energizing the generator in response to the protection lock-out signal.
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Good Jef W.
Mrowiec David J.
Makeever Jeffery J.
Ponomarenko Nicholas
Stephan Steven L.
Sundstrand Corporation
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