TY - GEN
T1 - An Improved Automatic Voltage Regulator for Self-Excited, Small-to-Medium Power Generating Sets equipped with Brushless Excitation Systems
AU - Nuzzo, Stefano
AU - Bolognesi, Paolo
AU - Galea, Michael
AU - Barater, Davide
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - The classical, wound-field, synchronous generator is currently enjoying a revamped interest in its design and development, partly due to the ever-increasing requirements in terms of power quality standards, efficiency and power density and partly due to advances in materials and manufacturing techniques. Also, the significant improvements in the computational resources allow the utilization of modern design techniques and tools. Apart from the design of the machine itself, another area of interest is the system-level optimization. The proposed project is aimed at renewing the power electronics and the control logics in power generating sets featuring the popular brushless configuration. An industrial small-to-medium size power generating set is taken as case study. The considered platform is first analyzed at system-level, by modelling in detail all of the components comprised in it. Then, focus is given to the automatic voltage regulator. A faster, more flexible and more efficient system is proposed, based on a 4-quadrant DC-to-DC converter which permits to improve the dynamic response of the excitation system.
AB - The classical, wound-field, synchronous generator is currently enjoying a revamped interest in its design and development, partly due to the ever-increasing requirements in terms of power quality standards, efficiency and power density and partly due to advances in materials and manufacturing techniques. Also, the significant improvements in the computational resources allow the utilization of modern design techniques and tools. Apart from the design of the machine itself, another area of interest is the system-level optimization. The proposed project is aimed at renewing the power electronics and the control logics in power generating sets featuring the popular brushless configuration. An industrial small-to-medium size power generating set is taken as case study. The considered platform is first analyzed at system-level, by modelling in detail all of the components comprised in it. Then, focus is given to the automatic voltage regulator. A faster, more flexible and more efficient system is proposed, based on a 4-quadrant DC-to-DC converter which permits to improve the dynamic response of the excitation system.
KW - automatic voltage regulator
KW - brushless excitation system
KW - generating set modelling
KW - synchronous generators
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85084141698&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IECON.2019.8927675
DO - 10.1109/IECON.2019.8927675
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85084141698
T3 - IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
SP - 904
EP - 909
BT - Proceedings
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2019
Y2 - 14 October 2019 through 17 October 2019
ER -