1. Fast calculation of field currents and reactances for doubly fed generators with rotor duct pieces
- Author
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Shima, Kazuo, Ide, Kazumasa, Takahashi, Miyoshi, Okada, Masayuki, and Nagura, Osamu
- Subjects
Finite element method -- Usage ,Air-turbines -- Design and construction ,Skin effect (Electricity) -- Analysis ,Business ,Electronics ,Electronics and electrical industries - Abstract
Doubly fed generators have been used as adjustable-speed pumped-storage generator motors and wind turbine generators. Accurate determination of field currents and reactances is important for the design of these machines. We propose a calculation method to obtain the field currents and reactances of machines with rotor duct pieces under any steady-state balanced load condition. The method links two-dimensional static finite-element analysis (FEA) with an approximate calculation to consider three-dimensional (3-D) skin effect in the duct pieces. Its advantage is that the computational time is much smaller than 3-D transient FEA when the slip frequency is not zero. The method will contribute to improvement of the design of doubly fed generators with rotor duct pieces. It was applied to a 395 MVA machine, and the calculated field currents agreed well with the measurements. Variation in the reactances due to saturation is also discussed. Index Terms--Adjustable-speed pumped storage system, cross magnetization, finite-element method, inductance, skin effect, slip.
- Published
- 2006