Static current-compounding excitation schemes that provide an isolated synchronous generator with a field current that increases both with increasing load and with worsening power factor have been in existence for many years. Such schemes, while capable of maintaining the on-load terminal voltage substantially constant, require brushes to carry the excitation current to the generator field winding and in some practical applications these brushes may present serious maintenance problems. In a recent development, a new brushless frequency-converter type of excitation system was introduced. This system, while using only passive components, can furnish a loaded synchronous generator with a compounded excitation current such that its terminal voltage is maintained to within a reasonably close tolerance, irrespective of the load power factor. The central unit of the system is a special purpose exciter, the rather unconventional stator windings of which make the concept of an automatically-regulated and brushless generator a practical reality.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:345811 |
| Date | January 1983 |
| Creators | Kok, Tiong Chee |
| Publisher | Loughborough University |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/14119 |
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