Abstract
A synchronous generator is forced to asynchronous operation under sudden loss of excitation (LOE). Operation under LOE has many undesirable effects, for example, thermal injury of the faulted machine, poor voltage profile in its neighbourhood, pulsations in voltage and power etc. These effects are more pronounced for a salient pole hydrogenerator compared to a cylindrical pole turbo generator. For these reasons, sustained operation under LOE cannot be permitted for a long time and the faulted machine is to be switched off. The general practice is to use an off-set type mho-relay with an appropriate time delay to distinguish LOE from recoverable swings. In this paper, the performance variables under sudden field failure for a non-salient pole generator and its impedance looking from the terminals have been computed by specially constructed programs based on numerical methods. Taking the example of a 210 MW turbo generator set of Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd., it has been established that the offset type mho-relay protection is adequate under all possible conditions of asynchronous operation following an LOE. A comparison has been made between the field directly short-circuited and the same closed through a properly chosen value of discharge resistance. It has been found that the use of discharge resistance is beneficial, but the relay operates even in its absence.
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Abbreviations
- E, V:
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Induced voltage, infinite bus voltage
- Pref, Ru :
-
Reference power-setting, static droop
- P, Ps, Pr :
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Total, synchronous, reluctance power
- Pas, Qas :
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Asynchronous active/reactive power
- re, Xe :
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External resistance, leakage reactance to infinite bus
- rf, rd :
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Field/field discharge resistance
- \(\text{T}_{\rm d}^{\prime } , \text{T}_{\rm do}^{\prime }\) :
-
D-axis SC/OC transient time constant
- \(\text{T}_{\rm d}^{{{\prime \prime }}} ,\text{T}_{\rm do}^{{{\prime \prime }}}\) :
-
D-axis SC/OC subtransient time constant
- \(\text{T}_{\rm q}^{{{\prime \prime }}} ,\text{T}_{\rm qo}^{{{\prime \prime }}}\) :
-
Q-axis SC/OC subtransient time constant
- Tas, Ias :
-
Asynchronous torque/current
- \(\text{V}_{\rm g} ,\text{I}_{\rm a} \angle \upphi\) :
-
Generator terminal voltage, armature current
- Xd, Xq :
-
D-axis/Q-axis synchronous reactance
- Xmd, xf :
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D-axis magnetizing reactance, field leakage reactance
- xa, ω:
-
Armature leakage reactance, angular frequency, r/s
- \(\text{X}_{\rm d}^{\prime }\) :
-
D-axis transient reactance
- \(\text{X}_{\rm d}^{{{\prime \prime }}} ,\text{X}_{\rm q}^{{{\prime \prime }}}\) :
-
D-axis/Q-axis sub-transient reactance
- δ, s:
-
Power angle, slip
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All quantities are in p.u. unless otherwise mentioned. The time-constants are in second.
Subscript ‘e’ has been used for parameters inclusive of external impedance, later on dropped off for convenience remembering that the values include external impedance to infinite bus; subscript ‘m’ has been used for modified values.
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Appendix
Algorithm for numerical solution of Eq. 8 using Newton–Raphson method is given below:
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\({\text{Read}}\,\,\text{P}_{\rm ref} ,\text{V},\text{X}_{\rm d} ,\text{X}_{\rm d}^{\prime } ,\text{X}_{\rm d}^{{{\prime \prime }}} ,\text{X}_{\rm q} ,\text{X}_{\rm q}^{{{\prime \prime }}} ,\text{T}_{\rm d}^{'} ,\text{T}_{\rm d}^{{{\prime \prime }}} ,\text{T}_{\rm q}^{{{\prime \prime }}} ,\text{f},\text{r}_{\rm f} ,\text{r}_{\rm d} ,\text{X}_{\rm e} ,\text{R}_{\rm u}\)
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\(\text{X}_{\rm de} \leftarrow \text{X}_{\rm d} + \text{X}_{\rm e} ;\text{X}_{\rm qe} \leftarrow \text{X}_{\rm q} + \text{X}_{\rm e} ;\text{X}_{\rm de}^{\prime } \leftarrow \text{X}_{\rm d}^{\prime } + \text{X}_{\rm e} ;\text{X}_{\rm de}^{{{\prime \prime }}} \leftarrow \text{X}_{\rm d}^{{{\prime \prime }}} + \text{X}_{\rm e} ;\text{X}_{\rm qe}^{{{\prime \prime }}} \leftarrow \text{X}_{\rm q}^{{{\prime \prime }}} + \text{X}_{\rm e}\)
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\(\text{T}_{\rm do}^{\prime } \leftarrow \text{T}_{\rm d}^{\prime } \text{X}_{\rm d} /\text{X}_{\rm d}^{\prime } ;\text{T}_{\rm do}^{\prime \prime } \leftarrow \text{T}_{\rm d}^{\prime \prime } \text{X}_{\rm d}^{\prime } /\text{X}_{\rm d}^{\prime \prime } ;\text{T}_{\rm qo}^{\prime \prime } \leftarrow \text{T}_{\rm q}^{\prime \prime } \text{X}_{\rm q}^{\prime } /\text{X}_{\rm q}^{\prime \prime } ;\text{T}_{\rm dom}^{\prime } \leftarrow \text{T}_{\rm do}^{\prime } \text{r}_{\rm f} /(\text{r}_{\rm f} + \text{r}_{\rm d} )\)
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\(\text{T}_{\rm d}^{\prime } \leftarrow \text{T}_{\rm dom}^{\prime } \text{X}_{\rm de}^{\prime } /\text{X}_{\rm de} ;\text{T}_{\rm d}^{\prime \prime } \leftarrow \text{T}_{\rm do}^{\prime \prime } \text{X}_{\rm de}^{\prime \prime } /\text{X}_{\rm de}^{\prime } ;\text{T}_{\rm q}^{\prime \prime } \leftarrow \text{T}_{\rm qo}^{\prime \prime } \text{X}_{\rm qe}^{\prime \prime } /\text{X}_{\rm qe}\)
- Step-5:
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\(\text{k}_{\rm 1} \leftarrow \text{V}^{2} \text{T}_{\rm d}^{\prime } (1/\text{X}_{\rm de}^{\prime } - 1/\text{X}_{\rm de} )/2;\text{k}_{2} \leftarrow \text{V}^{2} \text{T}_{\rm d}^{\prime \prime } (1/\text{X}_{\rm de}^{\prime \prime } - 1/\text{X}_{\rm de}^{\prime } )/2;\text{k}_{3} \leftarrow \text{V}^{2} \text{T}_{\rm q}^{\prime \prime } (1/\text{X}_{\rm qe}^{\prime \prime } - 1/\text{X}_{\rm qe} )/2\)
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\({\text{Initialize}}\,{\text{slip}},{\text{convergence}}\,{\text{constant}},\,{\text{maximum}}\,{\text{number}}\,{\text{of}}\,{\text{iteration}}:\text{s},\varepsilon ,\text{n}_{\hbox{max} }\)
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\(\text{f} \leftarrow - \text{P}_{\rm ref} + \text{s}/\text{R}_{\rm u} + \text{s}(1 - \text{s})\left[ {\frac{{\text{k}_{1} }}{{1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm d}^{\prime } )^{2} }} + \frac{{\text{k}_{2} }}{{1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm d}^{\prime \prime } )^{2} }} + \frac{{\text{k}_{3} }}{{1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm q}^{\prime \prime } )^{2} }}} \right]\)
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\(\text{f}^{\prime } \leftarrow 1/\text{R}_{\rm u} + \left[ {\frac{{\text{k}_{1} \{ 1 - 2 \text{s} - (\text{sT}_{\rm d}^{\prime } )^{2} \} }}{{\{ 1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm d}^{\prime } )^{2} \}^{2} }} + \frac{{\text{k}_{2} \{ 1 - 2 \text{s} - (\text{sT}_{\rm d}^{\prime \prime } )^{2} \} }}{{\{ 1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm d}^{\prime \prime } )^{2} \}^{2} }} + \frac{{\text{k}_{3} \{ 1 - 2 \text{s} - (\text{sT}_{\rm q}^{\prime \prime } )^{2} \} }}{{\{ 1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm q}^{\prime \prime } )^{2} \}^{2} }}} \right]\)
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snew ← s − f/f′
- Step-10:
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\(\text{If}\left| {\text{s}_{\rm new} - \text{s}} \right|\, < \,\varepsilon \,{\text{then}}\,{\text{goto}}\,{\text{step}}\,14\)
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\({\text{count}} \leftarrow {\text{count}} + 1\)
- Step-12:
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\({\text{If}}\,{\text{count}} > \text{n}_{\hbox{max} } \,\,{\text{then}}\,{\text{goto}}\,{\text{step}}\,19\)
- Step-13:
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\(\text{s} \leftarrow \text{s}_{\rm new} :\,{\text{goto}}\,{\text{step}}\,7\)
- Step-14:
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s ← snew
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\(\text{P}_{\rm as} = \text{s}(1 - \text{s})\left[ {\frac{{\text{k}_{1} }}{{1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm d}^{\prime } )^{2} }} + \frac{{\text{k}_{2} }}{{1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm d}^{\prime \prime } )^{2} }} + \frac{{\text{k}_{3} }}{{1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm q}^{\prime \prime } )^{2} }}} \right]\)
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\(\text{Q}_{\rm as} = \text{s}\left[ {\frac{{\text{k}_{1} \text{sT}_{\rm d}^{\prime } }}{{1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm d}^{\prime } )^{2} }} + \frac{{\text{k}_{2} \text{sT}_{d}^{\prime \prime } }}{{1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm d}^{\prime \prime } )^{2} }} + \frac{{\text{k}_{3} \text{sT}_{\rm q}^{\prime \prime } }}{{1 + (\text{sT}_{\rm q}^{\prime \prime } )^{2} }}} \right]\)
- Step-17:
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Sas ← (P 2as + Q 2as )1/2; Ias = Sas/V
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\({\text{print}}\,\text{s},\text{P}_{\rm as} ,\text{Q}_{\rm as} ,\text{S}_{\rm as} ,\text{I}_{\rm as} :{\text{goto}}\,{\text{step}}\,20\)
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\({\text{No}}\,{\text{convergence\,in}}\,'\text{n}_{\hbox{max} }'\,{\text{number}}\,{\text{of}}\,{\text{iterations}}.\,{\text{Try}}\,{\text{again}}\,{\text{changing}}\,{\text{initial}}\,{\text{value}}.\)
- Step-20:
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\({\text{stop:end}}\)
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Das, A., Dhar, S., Royburman, S. et al. The Efficacy of Generator Protection under Sudden Loss of Excitation using Offset-type MHO-relay. J. Inst. Eng. India Ser. B 98, 115–120 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40031-016-0228-6
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